Table of Contents

• ‘Editor's Preface’ by Norma McLeod
• ‘La survivance du Romanceiro dans les chants de fauchage du Tras-os-Montes (Portugal)’ by Anne Caufriez
• ‘Vasil Stoin, Bulgarian Folk Song Collector’ by Barbara Krader
• ‘Aspects of Bulgarian Musical Thought’ by Timothy Rice
• ‘Validation empirique de la méthode sémiologique en musique: le cas des indicatifs de tambour dans les cérémonies Indiennes en Martinique’ by Monique Desroches
• ‘Le cont-chanté comme lieu d'accumulation d'un savoir musical’ by Claude Dauphin
• ‘The Study of Individual Carnatic Musicians’ by Gordon Geekie

Book Reviews

• Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology by Charlotte Heth. Review by Charlotte J. Frisbie
• Music as Culture by Marcia Herndon; Norma McLeod. Review by Steven Feld
• Zbornik dalmatinskih klapskih pjesama. Review by Barbara Krader
• 'Are 'are: Un Peuple Melanesien et sa Musique by Daniel de Coppet; Hugo Zemp. Review by Norma McLeod
• The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition by Daniel M. Neuman. Review by Bonnie C. Wade

Briefly Mentioned

• Adirondack Voices: Woodsmen and Woodslore by Robert D. Bethke
• The 4th Festival of Asian Arts, 19 October - 3 November 1979; The 5th Festival of Asian Arts, 16 October - 1 November 1980
• Ozark Folksongs by Vance Randolph