Jonathan P. J. Stock is Professor of Music at University College Cork.Beverley Diamond is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology in Australia is the co-winner of the 2025 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

• Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction1 Ethics in Ethnomusicological Research: Historical Perspectives, Emergent Challenges Jonathan P. J. StockPART I: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics 2 Introduction: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics Beverley Diamond3 Some Precepts Taught by Two Cree Elders and Their Implications for Talking about Music Carl Urion4 Ethical Responsiveness at the Intersection of Critical Indigenous Studies and Music Scholarship Monique Giroux5 Double the Danger in Writing: Toward Feminist and Decolonial Response-Abilities in Ethnomusicology Elizabeth Mackinlay6 Music as Ethics in an American Intentional Community Andy McGraw7 Empathy, Compassion, and Cultural Intimacy Martin Stokes8 Music and the Immorality of Ethnography Benjamin R. TeitelbaumPART II: Fieldwork Encounters 9 Introduction: Fieldwork Encounters Jonathan P. J. Stock10 White Caste Supremacy and Dis/connection in Fieldwork Encounters Stefan Fiol11 Standing with: Ethnomusicologists as Industry Colleagues in the FieldIoannis Tsioulakis12 Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Safeguarding of the Indigenous Shona Mbira Music Heritage of Zimbabwe: Ethical Issues Revisited Perminus Matiure13 Don’t Be Like the Jebarra: Reconsidering the Ethics of Ethnomusicological Practice in an Indigenous Australian Context Sally Treloyn and Rona Goonginda Charles14 Good Research versus Ethical Participation at Muslim Women’s Ceremonies in Iran Mohammad Reza Azadehfar and Fatemeh Mirtaheri15 Becoming Family: A Female Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Fieldwork in Central Asia Razia Sultanova16 “I Hope God Blesses You with a Beautiful Wife”: Negotiating Heteronormative Research Spaces as a Gay Man Jared Mackley-CrumpPART III : Environment, Trauma, Collaboration 17 Introduction: Environment, Trauma, Collaboration Jonathan P. J. Stock18 Ethical Considerations for Ethnomusicologists in the Midst of Environmental Crisis Jeff Todd Titon19 Mining for Music: Ethical Entanglements in Lihir, Papua New Guinea Kirsty Gillespie20 Between the Cracks: Navigating Trauma as an Ethnomusicologist Rebecca Dirksen21 Collaborative Video-Making with Young Women in Ethiopia: Responding to Violence, Exploring Challenges, Demonstrating Resistance Leila Qashu22 Ethics vs. Ethnic Issues: Negotiating a Fieldworker’s Status in Xinjiang Mu Qian23 Arts, Organizations, and Ethnomusicology: Ethical Considerations in the Contexts of Health and Development Work Kathleen J. Van BurenPART IV: Research in Public Domains 24 Introduction: Research in Public Domains Beverley Diamond25 “The West and the Rest”: Power (Im)Balances in Musical Museum Spaces Kathleen Wiens26 Unsettling the Score: The Case of Naačnaača Jeremy Strachan27 Ethical Dimensions in Ethnomusicology for Policy Simon McKerrell28 Images beyond Consent: Developing an Ethics of Cine-Ethnomusicology Benjamin J. Harbert29 “A Week from Now, Will I Remember? Maybe…Maybe Not”: Navigating Ethics in the Production of Student-Made Films about Music and Dementia Jennie GubnerPART V: Afterword 30 Afterword: Complicating the Conversation about Ethics in the Pluriverse Beverley DiamondIndex

Jonathan P. J. Stock is Professor of Music at University College Cork.Beverley Diamond is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology in Australia is the co-winner of the 2025 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

• Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction1 Ethics in Ethnomusicological Research: Historical Perspectives, Emergent Challenges Jonathan P. J. StockPART I: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics 2 Introduction: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics Beverley Diamond3 Some Precepts Taught by Two Cree Elders and Their Implications for Talking about Music Carl Urion4 Ethical Responsiveness at the Intersection of Critical Indigenous Studies and Music Scholarship Monique Giroux5 Double the Danger in Writing: Toward Feminist and Decolonial Response-Abilities in Ethnomusicology Elizabeth Mackinlay6 Music as Ethics in an American Intentional Community Andy McGraw7 Empathy, Compassion, and Cultural Intimacy Martin Stokes8 Music and the Immorality of Ethnography Benjamin R. TeitelbaumPART II: Fieldwork Encounters 9 Introduction: Fieldwork Encounters Jonathan P. J. Stock10 White Caste Supremacy and Dis/connection in Fieldwork Encounters Stefan Fiol11 Standing with: Ethnomusicologists as Industry Colleagues in the FieldIoannis Tsioulakis12 Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Safeguarding of the Indigenous Shona Mbira Music Heritage of Zimbabwe: Ethical Issues Revisited Perminus Matiure13 Don’t Be Like the Jebarra: Reconsidering the Ethics of Ethnomusicological Practice in an Indigenous Australian Context Sally Treloyn and Rona Goonginda Charles14 Good Research versus Ethical Participation at Muslim Women’s Ceremonies in Iran Mohammad Reza Azadehfar and Fatemeh Mirtaheri15 Becoming Family: A Female Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Fieldwork in Central Asia Razia Sultanova16 “I Hope God Blesses You with a Beautiful Wife”: Negotiating Heteronormative Research Spaces as a Gay Man Jared Mackley-CrumpPART III : Environment, Trauma, Collaboration 17 Introduction: Environment, Trauma, Collaboration Jonathan P. J. Stock18 Ethical Considerations for Ethnomusicologists in the Midst of Environmental Crisis Jeff Todd Titon19 Mining for Music: Ethical Entanglements in Lihir, Papua New Guinea Kirsty Gillespie20 Between the Cracks: Navigating Trauma as an Ethnomusicologist Rebecca Dirksen21 Collaborative Video-Making with Young Women in Ethiopia: Responding to Violence, Exploring Challenges, Demonstrating Resistance Leila Qashu22 Ethics vs. Ethnic Issues: Negotiating a Fieldworker’s Status in Xinjiang Mu Qian23 Arts, Organizations, and Ethnomusicology: Ethical Considerations in the Contexts of Health and Development Work Kathleen J. Van BurenPART IV: Research in Public Domains 24 Introduction: Research in Public Domains Beverley Diamond25 “The West and the Rest”: Power (Im)Balances in Musical Museum Spaces Kathleen Wiens26 Unsettling the Score: The Case of Naačnaača Jeremy Strachan27 Ethical Dimensions in Ethnomusicology for Policy Simon McKerrell28 Images beyond Consent: Developing an Ethics of Cine-Ethnomusicology Benjamin J. Harbert29 “A Week from Now, Will I Remember? Maybe…Maybe Not”: Navigating Ethics in the Production of Student-Made Films about Music and Dementia Jennie GubnerPART V: Afterword 30 Afterword: Complicating the Conversation about Ethics in the Pluriverse Beverley DiamondIndex