ABSTRACT
In this part of the volume, contributors present ethical reflections that emerge from the encounters that occur during the practices of fieldwork. Once by far the predominant stimulus for discussions of ethics by those within the discipline, fieldwork remains a key topic in such thought even as it has been reconceptualized to embrace research that occurs close to our homes, online, or in hybridized formats and even as arguments over ethics have spread across a far wider range of professional concerns. If the chapters in this part have a common thread, it is that we learn a lot about ourselves as we investigate those whose musical lives become the base for our research. These lessons can be transformative and inspiring (for us), but they can also involve misapprehensions and disagreement, and lingering suspicion that our work may be fundamentally exploitative irrespective of our good intentions.
