Sidra Lawrence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidra Lawrence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidra |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrence |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance
Reconjuring the Wound
In this essay I explore the sonic memories of trauma and their relationship to how audibility and inaudibility operate within the justice system in the United States of America. I recount the crucial role that sound plays in shaping sensory knowledge of sexual assault. The sound worlds that emerge, while individualized, are emblematic of traumatic sound productions and their consequences. Pivoting around this experience, I theorize broadly about …
Sonic intimacies
In this essay I explore the sensuous dimensions of intimacies and erotics in ethnographic field research conducted among the Dagara in northwestern Ghana. I argue that sensuous perception reveals aspects of ethnographic research that are frequently rendered inaudible, especially performative modes of expression. I theorize a conception of the erotic that moves beyond sexual activity, desire, and identity. This expansion of the erotic continuum op…
Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo
Responding to an increasing sense of urgency about sexual harassment and assault during ethnographic fieldwork in the era of #MeToo, this article offers a lesson plan for effecting systemic change in the discipline of ethnomusicology. We show how disciplinary assumptions about the field where harassment occurs reify colonizing histories of racial othering, reinscribe heteronormativity, and alternately conflate or erase specific types of violences…
Performing Desire
Drawing from ethnographic field research in northwestern Ghana, I investigate the public discourse of desire by recounting the experience of a personal relationship. I dislocate presumptions about dichotomous power differentials between the researcher and researched and instead investigate the complex, sometimes contradictory navigation of human relationships. I argue that the performance of desire is understood only through a culturally intellig…
Antología de la música afrocubana (review)
Performing Desire
Drawing from ethnographic field research in northwestern Ghana, I investigate the public discourse of desire by recounting the experience of a personal relationship. I dislocate presumptions about dichotomous power differentials between the researcher and researched and instead investigate the complex, sometimes contradictory navigation of human relationships. I argue that the performance of desire is understood only through a culturally intellig…
Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo
Responding to an increasing sense of urgency about sexual harassment and assault during ethnographic fieldwork in the era of #MeToo, this article offers a lesson plan for effecting systemic change in the discipline of ethnomusicology. We show how disciplinary assumptions about the field where harassment occurs reify colonizing histories of racial othering, reinscribe heteronormativity, and alternately conflate or erase specific types of violences…
Sonic intimacies
In this essay I explore the sensuous dimensions of intimacies and erotics in ethnographic field research conducted among the Dagara in northwestern Ghana. I argue that sensuous perception reveals aspects of ethnographic research that are frequently rendered inaudible, especially performative modes of expression. I theorize a conception of the erotic that moves beyond sexual activity, desire, and identity. This expansion of the erotic continuum op…
Antología de la música afrocubana (review)
Performing Desire
Drawing from ethnographic field research in northwestern Ghana, I investigate the public discourse of desire by recounting the experience of a personal relationship. I dislocate presumptions about dichotomous power differentials between the researcher and researched and instead investigate the complex, sometimes contradictory navigation of human relationships. I argue that the performance of desire is understood only through a culturally intellig…
Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo
Responding to an increasing sense of urgency about sexual harassment and assault during ethnographic fieldwork in the era of #MeToo, this article offers a lesson plan for effecting systemic change in the discipline of ethnomusicology. We show how disciplinary assumptions about the field where harassment occurs reify colonizing histories of racial othering, reinscribe heteronormativity, and alternately conflate or erase specific types of violences…
Sonic intimacies
In this essay I explore the sensuous dimensions of intimacies and erotics in ethnographic field research conducted among the Dagara in northwestern Ghana. I argue that sensuous perception reveals aspects of ethnographic research that are frequently rendered inaudible, especially performative modes of expression. I theorize a conception of the erotic that moves beyond sexual activity, desire, and identity. This expansion of the erotic continuum op…
Reconjuring the Wound
In this essay I explore the sonic memories of trauma and their relationship to how audibility and inaudibility operate within the justice system in the United States of America. I recount the crucial role that sound plays in shaping sensory knowledge of sexual assault. The sound worlds that emerge, while individualized, are emblematic of traumatic sound productions and their consequences. Pivoting around this experience, I theorize broadly about …
Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Subjectivity (3 works)