ABSTRACT

This essay attends to select affective politics of theoretical practices in the study of music and affect. Concentrating on EuroAmerican theoretical frames, I address how assumptions generating key theories in affect studies complicate ethnographic analyses of musics emanating from various historical, social and cultural locations. I attend to challenges that object-oriented approaches provide ethnomusicologists in particular, arguing that a focus on practice affords opportunities to avoid the reifications of ‘music’ and ‘affect’ as potentially agentive. In considering strategies of presentation and publication, I call citational practices into question, elucidating inequities in distinct processes of legitimation. This essay stands as an invitation for increased transparency and personal accountability in theorising, with special attention to affective entanglements and attachments.

摘要

本文旨在选择音乐和情感研究中理论实践的情感政治。着重于欧洲美国的理论框架，我将探讨在情感研究中产生关键理论的假设如何使来自不同历史，社会和文化位置的音乐的人种学分析变得复杂。我要面对的挑战是，面向对象的方法尤其为民族音乐学家提供了挑战，他们认为对实践的关注提供了避免将“音乐”和“影响”具体化为潜在代理的机会。在考虑展示和出版的策略时，我将引证方法质疑，以阐明不同合法化过程中的不平等现象。这篇文章邀请您提高理论的透明度和个人责任感，