Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge
from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich
collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the
collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on
genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi
playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene. Highlighting the
sheer physicality of the ethnographic encounter, as well as the forms of
sociality that gradually emerge between self and other, each
contribution demonstrates how dance and music open up pathways and give
shape to life trajectories that are neither predetermined nor
teleological, but generative.