Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London, UK.

Dafni Tragaki is Assistant Professor in Music Anthropology at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece.

Stephen Wilford is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Popular Music and Sound Studies within the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, UK.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Musical Intimacy in Performance

Introspection I

Chapter 1: The Intimacy of Interlocking

Chapter 2: Spiritual and Emotional Dimensions of Female Lullaby Singing in Afghanistan

Chapter 3: Afghan Wars and Musical Intimacy

Part II: Intimate Confessions and Biographical Strategies

Introspection II

Chapter 4: Radio and the Music Confessional

Chapter 5: Amr Kòhusraw Between Balkh and Delhi: The Transnational Legacies of an Indo-Afghan Poet-Musician

Chapter 6: Meetings With Masterly Musicians: Collaboration, Creation, and Curation in the Pursuit of Ethnomusicological Knowledge

Chapter 7: Searching for a Voice: An Anatolian Tale

Part III: Filmic Intimacies

Introspection III

Chapter 8: Intimacy in Ethnographic Film: Listening to How to Improve the World by Nguyn Trinh Thi

Chapter 9: The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai's A Lost Requiem (1983)

Chapter 10: Intoxicated Intimacies: Drunken Heroes in Greek Popular Film and Song

Epilogue: Digital Ethnomusicology in a Socially-Distanced World