Shadows in the Field Ch 5 "Moving" by Deborah Wong
In this chapter, Wong addresses several of what she feels are problems in modern ethnomusicology through her experience of and involvement with taiko. She writes about the problems of the relationship between ethnomusicology and ethnography, and also insists that a place in the discipline be kept for auto-ethnography. She supports the Denzin's idea that performance and political engagement come together to become performance ethnography. She concludes her chapter by with a few thoughts about how ethnomusicology can intersect with identity and social change.
I found this reading very difficult to understand. Because of this, my discussion question is simply: What are the main points of this article? How does ethnomusicology intersect with identity politics? And how can ethnomusicology be a force for social change?
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