Choreomusical Interactions, Hierarchical Structures, and Social Relations: A Methodological Account

This article makes the case for an explicit ethno-choreomusicology. We propose a research methodology that deploys a set of complementary techniques: detailed formal analyses of specific choreomusical genres; analyses of features that link movement and sound articulation based on detailed sound and movement documentation of specific realisations; discourse analysis to reveal concepts that inform both music and dance ethnotheory and aesthetics; video-elicitation and guided interviews to bring forward participants' movement and sound experience; ethnographic documentation to support analysis of social situations as choreomusical phenomena; oral history and narrative analysis of interview material to broaden the interpretations of choreomusical interaction beyond specific performance situations.