This open access book explores the disciplinary disciplined and recent interdisciplinary
sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness arguing that both academic realms are
founded upon a destructive masculinity-indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic
hegemony-and marked by a monologic ethnocentric silencing of embodied same-sex desire.
Ethnomusicology's fetishization of masculinizing fieldwork queerness's functioning as
Anglophone master category and both domains' devaluation of sensuality and experience
concomitant with an adherence to provincial Western conceptions of knowledge production are
revealed as precluding the possibilities for equitable dialogic pluriversality. Enlisting the
sonic as theoretical intervention the disciplined disciplining ethno and queer are reimagined
in relation to negative emotions and intractable affect ultimately vanquished and replaced by
explorations of sound sex uality and experiential somaticity within a protean
postdisciplinary space of material epistemic equity. This uncompromising long-overdue critique
will be of interest to researchers and students from numerous theoretical backgrounds
including music sound gender queer and postcolonial decolonial studies.
