What is it about?
The book is a survey on the moral challenges and imperatives of researching people's musical lives. Collectively, the authors study a broad spectrum of cases from many parts of the world, and from distinct musical and societal settings. We contribute to the building of a more engaged discipline by pondering research questions, impacts and opportunities.
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Why is it important?
Ethics is fundamental in all research with living subjects. In the book we treat ethics as context-contingent, fluid, always in active negotiation, and very often only noticed at moments where plural visions come into conflict. Ethnomusicology is thus an ongoing series of ethics-laden encounters where we actively reconstitute our own ethical imaginations through contact with others around us. There's still quite little written directly on this in ethnomusicology, so the collection as a whole represents a means to bring focus to thought and practice in this area.
Perspectives
Working on this book was a great pleasure. It allowed me to work with several authors with whom I have had long-standing collaborations, several whom I'd wanted to work with for a long while, and several who were new contacts, all on an issue that had been occupying my mind for quite some years. Writing on these topics isn't always simple, but we found and sustained a great shared ethos throughout the whole process.
Professor Jonathan P. J. Stock
University College Cork National University of Ireland
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This page is a summary of: The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology, October 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003043904.
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