Table of Contents

• ‘Editor's Introduction’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maud Karpeles and C. H.
• ‘Drone and 'Dyaphonia Basilica'’ by Edith Gerson-Kiwi
• ‘Are the Modes Outmoded?’ by Bertrand H. Bronson
• ‘Acculturation in the Eskimo Songs of the Greenlanders’ by Poul Rovsing Olsen
• ‘Acculturation in Hawaiian Dance’ by Adrienne L. Kaeppler
• ‘Shona Urban Music and the Problem of Acculturation’ by Robert Kauffman
• ‘Songs of Traditional Wedding Ceremonies in North India’ by Bonnie C. Wade
• ‘The Mexican Son’ by E. Thomas Stanford
• ‘Folk Music and Dance in African Education’ by Mosunmola Omibiyi
• ‘On the Acoustics and the Systematic Classification of the Jaw's Harp’ by Ola Kai Ledang
• ‘Sound Films for Combined Notation: The Groote Eylandt Field Project, 1969’ by Alice M. Moyle
• ‘Strip-Chart Recording of Narrow Band Frequency Analysis in Aid of Ethnomusicological Data’ by Stephen Erdely and Robert A. Chipman

Brief Contributions

• ‘Maypole Songs from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua’ by Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera
• ‘Brief Progress Report: Cantometrics-Choreometrics Projects’ by Alan Lomax

In Memoriam

• ‘Richard Alan Waterman (1914-1971)’ by William R. Bascom

Reviews

Studies and Monographs

• "Pirogue to the Moon": The Mythologiques of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Review by Gilbert Chase
• Folk Song Style and Culture by Alan Lomax. Review by Hewitt Pantaleoni
• Hebrew Hymn Tunes: The Rise and Development of a Musical Tradition by Hanoch Avenary. Review by Edith Gerson-Kiwi
• Narodni pesni ot yugozapadna Bulgaria, Pirinski krai, tom I [Folksongs from Northern Bulgaria; Vol. I: The Pirin Region] by Nicolai Kaufmann
• Narodni pesni ot Rhodopskia krai [Folksongs from the Rhodope Region] by Nicolai Kaufmann; Todor Todorov. Review by Boris Kremenliev
• U istokov narodnoj muzyki slavjan: 2 očerki po muzyka'nomu slavjanovedeniju. (The Roots of Slavic Music) by V. Gošovskij. Review by James Porter
• Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick by Helen Creighton; A Garland of Rue: Lithuanian Folksongs of Love and Bethrothal by Kenneth Peacock. Review by Robert Witmer
• Béla Bartók by Jószef Ujfalussy; Ruth Pataki; Elisabeth West. Review by Benjamin Suchoff
• The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. Volume III: Ballads 114-243 by Bertrand Harris Bronson; The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. Volume IV: Ballads 245-299 by Bertrand Harris Bronson. Review by Claude M. Simpson, Jr.
• Chansons populaires grecques. Vol: III by G. K. Spyriadakis; Spyr. D. Peristeris
• Instruments de musique grecs, antiques, byzantins, contemporains by Stavros Karakassis. Review by Samuel Baud-Bovy
• The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern. Review by Byron Cantrell
• Musical and Other Sound Instruments of the South American Indians by Karl Gustav Izikowitz. Review by Jeremy Montagu
• How to Play the Mbira (Dza Vadzimu) by Andrew Tracey. Review by Paul Berliner
• Living Country Blues by Harry Oster. Review by Willard Rhodes

Journals

• International Review of the Aestheticsand Sociology of Music by Ivo Supicic
• International Music Congress
• Bulletin Signalétique 521: Sociologie - Ethnologie by L. Cadoux
• Jazz Forschung by Friederich Körner; Dieter Glawischnig. Review by K. Peter Etzkorn
• Narodna Umjetnost by Maja Bosković-Stulli. Review by Barbara Krader

Recordings

• Hungarian Folk Music by Benjamin Rajeczky. Review by Cl. Marcel-Dubois
• Musique Guéré, Côte d'Ivoire by Hugo Zemp. Review by Hai Tran Quang
• Musique Banda, République Centre Africaine by S. Arom; G. Dournon-Taurelle. Review by Cl. Marcel-Dubois and André-Marie Despringre
• Musique berbère du Haut-Atlas by B. Lortat-Jacob; G. Rouget. Review by Hai Tran Quang
• Flûtes de Pan mélanésiennes 'Are 'Are, Vol 1 by Hugo Zemp; Flûtes de Pan mélanésiennes 'Are 'Are, Vol 2 by Hugo Zemp. Review by Hai Tran Quang and Cl. Marcel-Dubois
• Teda-Tibesti: Musique instrumentale by M. Brandily. Review by Cl. Marcel-Dubois and Hai Tran Quang
• Musique Gouro, Côte d'Ivoire by Michel Vuylsteke. Review by André-Marie Despringre
• Musique Bisa, Haute-Volta by Charles Duvelle. Review by André-Marie Despringre
• Musiques du pays Lobi, Haute-Volta by Charles Duvelle. Review by André-Marie Despringre
• Polyphonies Mongo, République démocratique du Congo by B. Quersin. Review by André-Marie Despringre
• Polyphonies et techniques vocales, Ethiopie by Jean Jenkins. Review by André-Marie Despringre
• Masques Dan, Côte d'Ivoire by Hugo Zemp. Review by André-Marie Despringre
• Musique traditionnelle turque, pièces instrumentales by Bernard Mauguin; R. Cambien. Review by Halûk Tarcan
• Bali: Court Music and Banjar Music by J. Brunet. Review by Hai Tran Quang
• Magyar Nepzene I. Hungarian Folk Music by Benjámin Rajeczky. Review by Barbara Krader
• Publications Received