Michelle Kisliuk and Sidra Lawrence won Honorable Mention for Outstanding Edited Collection of Essays in Ethnomusicology from The Society for Ethnomusicology for Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance: Race, Gender, Vulnerability.

 

Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political.

Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left u

nacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

 

The Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize honors each year a book collection of ethnomusicological essays of exceptional merit edited by a scholar or scholars, one of whom must be a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Established to honor the editor of Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective (University of Illinois, 1988) and Music Cultures in the United States: An Introduction (Routledge, 2005), both significant contributions to the field ethnomusicology, the Koskoff Prize acknowledges the value of the collective contributions to a volume, while recognizing the central role of the editor(s) in conceiving and shaping the whole.