Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies

Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies situates intimacy, a concept that encompasses a wide range of often informal social practices and processes for building closeness and relationality, within the ethnomusicological study of music and sound.

Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London, UK. Dafni Tragaki is Assistant Professor in Music Anthropology at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece. Stephen Wilford is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Popular Music and Sound Studies within the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, UK.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I: Musical Intimacy in Performance Introspection I Chapter 1: The Intimacy of Interlocking Chapter 2: Spiritual and Emotional Dimensions of Female Lullaby Singing in Afghanistan Chapter 3: Afghan Wars and Musical Intimacy Part II: Intimate Confessions and Biographical Strategies Introspection II Chapter 4: Radio and the Music Confessional Chapter 5: Am-r Kòhusraw Between Balkh and Delhi: The Transnational Legacies of an Indo-Afghan Poet-Musician Chapter 6: Meetings With Masterly Musicians: Collaboration, Creation, and Curation in the Pursuit of Ethnomusicological Knowledge Chapter 7: Searching for a Voice: An Anatolian Tale Part III: Filmic Intimacies Introspection III Chapter 8: Intimacy in Ethnographic Film: Listening to How to Improve the World by Nguy-n Trinh Thi Chapter 9: The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai's A Lost Requiem (1983) Chapter 10: Intoxicated Intimacies: Drunken Heroes in Greek Popular Film and Song Epilogue: Digital Ethnomusicology in a Socially-Distanced World