The meeting room as fieldwork site: Toward an ethnography of power

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Schippers, H
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García Corona, Leon F.

Wiens, Kathleen

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2021
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While we rightly pride ourselves on great depth and nuance in working with communities as ethnomusicologists, it is harder to claim the same qualities in how many of us regard, approach, and describe power structures. With public-facing ethnomusicology on the rise, there is both room and a need for more insightful approaches to working constructively with those in power, as various forms of structures (public authorities, NGOs, funding bodies, and even businesses) are crucial in turning projects with ambitions beyond academic impact into reality, benefiting musicians, communities, and other stakeholders. This is a critical juncture that distinguishes applied ethnomusicology; in this arena, a project without a clear strategy and support is just an idea. This chapter is based on more than forty years of negotiating spaces between dreams and ambitions of musicians and communities from myriad cultures on one hand, and on the other the ideas, forces and structures that drive those that fund, support, or otherwise enable cultural practices in different countries.

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Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology

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© 2021 OUP. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter, pp. 33-46, published in Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology edited by García Corona LF; Wiens K, 20 May 2021, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197526682.003.0003

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Musicology and ethnomusicology

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Schippers, H, The meeting room as fieldwork site: Toward an ethnography of power, Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology, 2021, pp. 33-46

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