The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology: (Routledge Music Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this discipline and its current practices. In 26 representative cases from across a broad spectrum of geographical, societal, and musical environments, authors collectively reflect on the impacts of ethnomusicological research, exploring the ways our work may instantiate privilege or risk bringing harm, as well as the means that are available to provide recognition, benefit, and reciprocation to the musicians and others who contribute to our studies. In a world where differing ethical values are often in conflict, and where music itself is meanwhile a powerful tool in projecting moral claims, we aim to uncover the conditions and consequences of the ethical choices we face as ethnomusicologists, thereby contributing to building a more engaged, restructured discipline and a more globally responsible music studies. The volume comprises four parts: (1) sound practices and philosophies of ethics; (2) fieldwork encounters; (3) environment, trauma, collaboration; and (4) research in public domains.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Ethics in Ethnomusicological Research: Historical Perspectives, Emergent Challenges Jonathan P. J. Stock PART I: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics 2 Introduction: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics Beverley Diamond 3 Some Precepts Taught by Two Cree Elders and Their Implications for Talking about Music Carl Urion 4 Ethical Responsiveness at the Intersection of Critical Indigenous Studies and Music Scholarship Monique Giroux 5 Double the Danger in Writing: Toward Feminist and Decolonial Response-Abilities in Ethnomusicology Elizabeth Mackinlay 6 Music as Ethics in an American Intentional Community Andy McGraw 7 Empathy, Compassion, and Cultural Intimacy Martin Stokes 8 Music and the Immorality of Ethnography Benjamin R. Teitelbaum PART II: Fieldwork Encounters 9 Introduction: Fieldwork Encounters Jonathan P. J. Stock 10 White Caste Supremacy and Dis/connection in Fieldwork Encounters Stefan Fiol 11 Standing with: Ethnomusicologists as Industry Colleagues in the Field Ioannis Tsioulakis 12 Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Safeguarding of the Indigenous Shona Mbira Music Heritage of Zimbabwe: Ethical Issues Revisited Perminus Matiure 13 Don’t Be Like the Jebarra: Reconsidering the Ethics of Ethnomusicological Practice in an Indigenous Australian Context Sally Treloyn and Rona Goonginda Charles 14 Good Research versus Ethical Participation at Muslim Women’s Ceremonies in Iran Mohammad Reza Azadehfar and Fatemeh Mirtaheri 15 Becoming Family: A Female Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Fieldwork in Central Asia Razia Sultanova 16 “I Hope God Blesses You with a Beautiful Wife”: Negotiating Heteronormative Research Spaces as a Gay Man Jared Mackley-Crump PART III : Environment, Trauma, Collaboration 17 Introduction: Environment, Trauma, Collaboration Jonathan P. J. Stock 18 Ethical Considerations for Ethnomusicologists in the Midst of Environmental Crisis Jeff Todd Titon 19 Mining for Music: Ethical Entanglements in Lihir, Papua New Guinea Kirsty Gillespie 20 Between the Cracks: Navigating Trauma as an Ethnomusicologist Rebecca Dirksen 21 Collaborative Video-Making with Young Women in Ethiopia: Responding to Violence, Exploring Challenges, Demonstrating Resistance Leila Qashu 22 Ethics vs. Ethnic Issues: Negotiating a Fieldworker’s Status in Xinjiang Mu Qian 23 Arts, Organizations, and Ethnomusicology: Ethical Considerations in the Contexts of Health and Development Work Kathleen J. Van Buren PART IV: Research in Public Domains 24 Introduction: Research in Public Domains Beverley Diamond 25 “The West and the Rest”: Power (Im)Balances in Musical Museum Spaces Kathleen Wiens 26 Unsettling the Score: The Case of Naačnaača Jeremy Strachan 27 Ethical Dimensions in Ethnomusicology for Policy Simon McKerrell 28 Images beyond Consent: Developing an Ethics of Cine-Ethnomusicology Benjamin J. Harbert 29 “A Week from Now, Will I Remember? Maybe…Maybe Not”: Navigating Ethics in the Production of Student-Made Films about Music and Dementia Jennie Gubner PART V: Afterword 30 Afterword: Complicating the Conversation about Ethics in the Pluriverse Beverley Diamond Index

About the Author :
Jonathan P. J. Stock is Professor of Music at University College Cork. Beverley Diamond is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.