What if we were to use the eyes and ears of the ethnomusicological and anthropological study of music and dance to see and hear a collegiate basketball game? In this talk, I present stories of sound and gesture, and the relationships they constitute and enable, primarily at Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Central University (with substantial "field trips" at other places, including The George Washington University, Howard University and the University of Maryland). These stories emerged for me, in part, from conversations I had in person and in writing with students while teaching writing-intensive classes. I'll present the space of sonic agency and flow of the basketball court itself, and the relationships made through the preparation and performance of the pep band; and basketball videogames (and YouTube videos using them) as forms of the sport and its musics. The whole ensemble of occasions presented by collegiate basketball, as field site, can make perceptible the ways sound and gesture enable us to share not only meaning, but time, and being. In exploring basketball as an ethnomusicologist here (the first disciplinary frame), I'm trying to push us to see music not as a special domain of human activity with different affordances than other domains, but rather as special _in that it is paradigmatic,_ in that it helps us to perceive the ways that shared time, sound, and gesture are fundamental to being human. And to the ways sharing time, sound, and gesture can happen (problematically and partially--but really) across difference. As a teacher-scholar of writing studies (the second disciplinary frame), I reflect on the relationship of the writing classroom to research like this--research in which students can act as "insider scholars" and experts, even as they are shaped through apprenticeship in the research traditions of a discipline.