Abstract
AbstractForegrounding the fetishization of textually represented ‘of-color Others’, the indissoluble links among sex, gender, sexuality, and race are exposed as responsible for the injunction against same-sex desire within the discipline. Surveying the history of whites’ fantastic constructions of these Others’ imagined inherent masculinity and heterosexuality, as well as the exploitation of their cultural production (including music) for the construction of the ethnomusicologist’s own gendered identity, homophobia is shown as concomitant with an unspeakable homoerotic/homophilic desire. Moreover, recent calls within anthropological research to abandon theory-driven distancing between researcher and subject—to instead share in experiential/sensual space—render any acknowledgment of same-sex desire highly dangerous, capable of exposing the precarity of gendered identities as well as the asymmetrical power relationships structuring ethnographic research.
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Springer International Publishing
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