Głębokie „muzyczenie” – refleksje o doświadczaniu terenu w etnomuzykologii

Though ethnodisciplines are defined by their research field, determining its limits seems to become more and more difficult nowadays. Displacements, discontinuities, hybridizations – we are much more likely to face these phenomena than a clearly defined space with a corresponding, clearly defined ethnos with its culture. However, questions regarding the research field remain important for the identity of ethnoresearchers and for the whole process of producing ethnoknowledge. This article is a methodological attempt to contemplate this issue. By analysing selected anthropological theories and confronting them with examples from her own research, the author tries to show that the research field exists where we are co-creating it. In her opinion, a conscious and planned activity engaging the researcher’s body and all of his or her senses, directed at building a relationship with people, sounds and space, may contribute to broadening the knowledge produced during field studies. By combining suggestions issued by anthropologists Tomasz Rakowski, Kirsten Hastrup and Jaida Kim Samudra with a musicological-philosophical approach presented by Christopher Small, the author offers a category of deep “musicking”. It encompasses participating in musical events, experiencing them on a physical and sensual level, and learning and sensing the continuously emerging musical phenomena. This results in forming a type of pre-textual and pre-sound knowledge which does not even have to be verbalized and conscious.