Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): "Performing Bodies"

The recognition of music as an embodied phenomenon has a long history across musicology, with ethnomusicology one of the areas in which it has been most thoroughly explored as a theme. This issue of the European Journal of Musicology looks at the “Performing Body” through a selection of case studies. It engages with several aspects of music’s embodied dimensions with the theoretical, technological, and analytical tools at our disposal in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it contextualises research on the musical body within recent and current academic debate, including on the transnational circulation of music, migration, and decolonisation. This collection aims to take stock of the state of ethnomusicological research on the body in performance and to stimulate debate from a range of diverse, but complementary perspectives and research methods.