Together Somehow pt 2: Intimacy, Belonging, and Paradox

Music & Peacebuilding

Part two of this three-part series on dancefloors and belonging examines how we experience intimacy and a sense of vague belonging. We look at the complex conflicted feelings of our lives that introduce paradox in a queer approach to analysis that draws upon magical realism. We examine the notion of an intimate public and how our constructions and projects of a “we” inform our feelings of belonging. Finally, the episode looks at senses of vague belonging and vague intimacy that are most profoundly experienced on dancefloors. Interwoven are reflections on peacebuilding and how peacebuilders may use the arts to lubricate spaces for vague belonging and multilayered affective experience.

The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

Chapters

1. Together Somehow pt 2: Intimacy, Belonging, and Paradox (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:00:34)

3. Methodology of Juxtaposition (00:01:30)

4. Complex Feelings (00:04:10)

5. Magical Realism and Juxtapositions (00:06:14)

6. EDM Track 1 (00:08:56)

7. Cruel Optimism (00:09:29)

8. Vague Belonging (00:11:03)

9. Vagueness (00:16:55)

10. Intimate Public (00:18:12)

11. EDM Track 2 (00:21:17)

12. Projections of We (00:21:40)

13. Projections of Motherhood (00:23:13)

14. Normative Beliefs and Pronouns (00:23:51)

15. Feeling Belonging (00:25:44)

16. Rock Bands in Conflict (00:29:11)

17. Intimacy (00:30:53)

18. Challenging Normative Intimacy (00:36:58)

19. Challenging Intimacy (00:37:56)

20. Final Reflections (00:40:02)