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Part I: Foreword. Queering The Field: A Foreword / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Part 2: Introduction. Queering The Field: An Introduction / Gregory Barz -- Part 3: Queer Silences. Sounding Out-ethnomusicology: Theoretical Reflection On Queer Fieldnotes And Performance / Zoe C. Sherinian; Uncomfortable Positions: Expertise And Vulnerability In Queer Postcolonial Fieldwork / Nicol Hammond; Queer In The Field?: What Happens When Neither Queer Nor The Field Is Clearly Defined? / Gillian M. Rodger -- Part 4: Out/in The Field. I Don't Think We Are Safe Around You: Queering Fieldwork In Ethnomusicology / Gregory Barz; Queerness, Ambiguity, Ethnography / Christi-anne Castro; Outing The Methodological No-no: Translating Queer Space To Field Space / Alexander M. Cannon; Queer Fieldwork In A Queer Field Under Surveillance: Musical Spaces In Cuba's Gay Ambiente / Moshe Morad -- Part 5: Queerness In Action. Con/figuring Transgender-hījṛā Music And Dance Through Queer Ethnomusicological Filmmaking / Jeff Roy; Queer Hip Hop Or Hip-hop Queerness?: Toward A Queer Of Color Music Studies / Matthew Leslie Santana; Going Through The Motions: Transgender Performance In Topeng Cirebon From North Java, Indonesia / Henry Spiller; Fielding The Field: Belonging, Disciplinarity, And Queer Scholarly Lives / Tes Slominski -- Part 6: Institutions And Intersections. The Lion, The Witch, And The Closet: Heteronormative Institutional Research And The Queering Of Traditions / Aileen Dillane And Nic Gareiss; I'm Not Gay, I'm Black: Assumptions And Limitations Of The Normative Queer Gaze In A Panamanian Dance-drama / Heather J. Paudler -- Part 7: Who's Queer (w)here?. Self And/as Subject: Respectability, Abjection, And The Alterity Of Studying What You Are / Amber R. Clifford-napoleone; Straight To The Heart: Heteronormativity, Flirtation, And Autoethnography At Home And Away / Kathryn Alexander; Coming Through Loud And Queer: Ethnomusicological Ethics Of Voice And Violence In Real And Virtual Battlegrounds / William Cheng -- Part 8: Clubs, Bars, Scenes. The Queer Concerns Of Nightlife Fieldwork / Luis-manuel Garcia; Ethnographic Positionality And Psychoanalysis: A Queer Look At Sex And Race In Fieldwork / Sarah Hankins; Man Created Homophobia, God Created Transformistas: Saluting The Oríchá In A Cuban Gay Bar / Cory W. Thorne; On Serendipity: Or, Toward A Sensual Ethnography / Peter Mcmurray. Edited By Gregory Barz And William Cheng. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ipswich, Ma Available Via World Wide Web.