Sometimes ethnomusicologists find themselves without music. After all, music only accounts for a portion of social life. Do the ethnographic and analytical strategies of ethnomusicology shed light on other kinds of social practice? Some people — for physiological, psychological, social, or economic reasons — disavow or cease to practice music. How can ethnomusicologists research individuals, groups and cultural forms that have disappeared or been hidden — whether this removal is from the symbolic layers of the public sphere, or more existentially, on the level of bare life — through socio-economic transformation, censorship, migration, or even genocide?