Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas - Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance: Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

Collaborative Intimacies in
Music and Dance

DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

General Editors:
Helena Wulff, Stockholm University and Jonathan Skinner, University of Roehampton

Advisory Board:
Alexandra Carter, Marion Kant, Tim Scholl

In all cultures, and across time, people have danced. For performers and spectators, the expressive nature of dance opens up spaces where social and political circumstances are creatively negotiated. Grounded in ethnography, this series explores dance, music and bodily movement in cultural contexts at the juncture of history, ritual and performance in an interconnected world.

Volume 1
Dancing at the Crossroads: Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Helena Wulff

Volume 2
Embodied Communities: Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Volume 3
Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism and Change in an Irish Village
Adam Kaul

Volume 4
Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Edited by Hlne Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner

Volume 5
Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal
Hlne Neveu Kringelbach

Volume 6
Learning Senegalese Sabar: Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar
Eleni Bizas

Volume 7
In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Lauren Miller Griffith

Volume 8
Choreographies of Landscape: Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Sally Ann Ness

Volume 9
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances: The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
Nandini Sikand

Volume 10
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance: Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Edited by Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas

Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

Edited by
Evangelos Chrysagis and
Panas Karampampas

First published in 2017 by
Berghahn Books
www.berghahnbooks.com

2017, 2020 Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas
First paperback edition published in 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chrysagis, Evangelos, editor. | Karampampas, Pana, editor.

Title: Collaborative intimacies in music and dance : anthropologies of sound and movement / edited by Evangelos Chrysagis and Pana Karampampas.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017. | Series: Dance and performance studies ; Volume 10 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016053587 (print) | LCCN 2017005992 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785334535 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781785334542 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Music and dance. | Music--Social aspects. | Dance--Anthropological aspects.

Classification: LCC ML3916 .C56 2017 (print) | LCC ML3916 (ebook) | DDC 306.4/84--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053587

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-1-78533-453-5 Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-78920-838-2 Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78533-454-2 Ebook

Contents

Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas

Tamara Kohn and Richard Chenhall

Yuki Imoto

Brenda Farnell and Robert N. Wood

Bethany Whiteside

James Butterworth

Evangelos Chrysagis

Ruxandra Ana

Mimina Pateraki

Panas Karampampas

Borut Telban

Illustrations and Table

Illustrations

Table

Preface

This edited volume is the culmination of a discussion that began in 2013 when we first met in Edinburgh. Panas had a long-standing interest in human movement and corporeality, and Evangelos was looking to expand his research focus beyond music practices and ethics to include the anthropological exploration of sound and space. The catalyst was our second meeting, this time at the EASA2014 conference in Tallinn, where we convened a panel on the collaborative dimensions of music and dance. Following a suggestion by the series editors, we decided to submit a proposal to the Dance and Performance Studies series, and we invited a number of scholars working on related topics to write chapters specifically for this volume. Several panel participants also contributed to this book. The resulting collection of texts serves a key purpose: to provide an account of the nexus between sound and movement that is intrinsically ethnographic. Similarly, the contributions to this volume were chosen based on their capacity to attend to a particular configuration of themes: space, ethics and the body. While the authors underscore anthropologys potential to address such themes, the range of theoretical standpoints, methodological frameworks and ethnographic settings that the reader will come across in the book highlights its interdisciplinary appeal.

The editing process has depended upon the assistance and generosity of many people. In particular, we wish to take this opportunity to thank our contributors for being so receptive to our editorial feedback and for their patience during the volumes long gestation. Without them, this book would never have happened. In addition, we would like to pay tribute to the editors of the series, and especially Helena Wulff for her inspiration and guidance. Thanks also go to the two anonymous reviewers for their extensive and constructive comments, and everyone at Berghahn for their help throughout the publication process. Finally, Evangelos is immensely grateful to Alexandra Chrysagi and Maria Stathopoulou for their unconditional support and ongoing encouragement, while Panas wants to express his profound gratitude to Vasilios Karampampas, Zoi Vasilaki and Eleni Moutesidi for providing him with unfailing support in all his endeavours and wholeheartedly believing in him.

Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas

Introduction