Table of Contents

Articles

• ‘Investigating a Musical Biography in Korea: The Theorist/Musicologist Pak Yŏn (1378-1458)’ by Robert C. Provine.
• ‘The Sound of Han: P'ansori, Timbre and a Korean Ethos of Pain and Suffering’ by Heather Willoughby.
• ‘Shifting Landscapes: Musical Mediations of Modernity in the Malaysian Rainforest’ by Marina Roseman.
• ‘Melodic Paradoxes in the Music of the Thai pi-phat and Javanese gamelan’ by Bussakorn Sumrongthong and Neil Sorrell.
• ‘Embodiment and Ambivalence: Emotion in South Asian Muharram Drumming’ by Richard K. Wolf.
• ‘Fine Art, Fine Music: Controlling Turkish Taste at the Fine Arts Academy in 1926’ by John Morgan O'Connell.
• ‘The Current State of Research on Korean Music’ by Byong Won Lee.
• ‘Research Activities in China: Country Report’ by Tsao Penyeh and Xue Yibing.
• ‘Tôyô Ongaku Gakkai and Music Research in Japan’ by Tsuge Gen'ichi.
• ‘Multicultural Metamethods: Lessons from Visby’ by Mark Slobin.

Book Reviews

• Review Essay: Multicultural Music Education. By Kari Veblen.
• Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues by Charles Keil; Steven Feld. Review by Kyra D. Gaunt.
• A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography by Erika Brady; Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America by David Morton. Review by Daniel Neely.
• Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews by Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Review by Edwin Seroussi.
• Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur by Michael B. Bakan. Review by David Harnish.
• The Beginnings of Western Music in Meiji Era Japan by Ury Eppstein; The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-Jamisen, and the Folk Music of Northern Japan with the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan by Takahashi Chikuzan; Gerald Groemer. Review by Hugh de Ferranti.
• Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience by Adelaida Reyes. Review by Margaret Sarkissian.
• Gongs & Bamboo: A Panorama of Philippine Music Instruments by José Maceda. Review by Yoshitaka Terada.
• Drumming for the Gods: The Life and Times of Felipe García Villamil by María Teresa Vélez. Review by Katherine Hagedorn.
• Miscelanea II of Studies Dedicated to Fernando Ortiz by Jane Gregory Rubin. Review by Robin Moore.
• Bacchanal: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad by Peter Mason. Review by Dominique Cyrille.
• The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil by Hermano Vianna; John Charles Chasteen; The Social History of the Brazilian Samba by Lisa Shaw. Review by Frederick Moehn.
• A musicológica Kamayurá. Para uma antropologia da comunicação no Alto Xingu by Rafael José de Menezes Bastos. Review by Elizabeth Travassos.
• Spirit of the First People: Native American Music Traditions of Washington State by Willie Smyth; Esme Ryan. Review by Steve Nickerson.
• The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography by Luke E. Lassiter. Review by Joann W. Keali'inohomoku.
• Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles by Clora Bryant; California Soul: Music of African-Americans in the West by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje; Eddie S. Meadows. Review by A. Scott Currie.
• Klezmer-Musik by Rita Ottens; Joel Rubin. Review by Walter Zev Feldman.
• Tradycje Muzyczne a ich Przemiany: Miedzy kultura ludowa, popularna i elitarna Polski miedzywojennej by Dahlig Piotr. Review by Anna Czekanowska.
• Identità musicale della Val dei Mòcheni. Cultura e canti tradizionali di una comunità alpina plurilingue by Renato Morelli; Le ragioni dei cantastorie. Poesia e realtà nella cultura popolare del Sud by Mauro Geraci; Canti sardi a chitarra. Un sistema tradizionale di competizione poetico-musicale by Andrea Carpi; Etnografia musicale in Sicilia. 1870-1941 by Sergio Bonanzinga. Review by Goffredo Plastino.
• Africa and the Blues by Gerhard Kubik. Review by Frank Gunderson.
• Chipendani und Mbira. Musikinstrumente, nichtbegriffliche Mathematik und die Evolution der harmonischen Progressionen in der Musik der Shona in Zimbabwe by Klaus-Peter Brenner. Review by Gerd Grupe.
• Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West by Veit Erlmann. Review by Timothy D. Taylor.

Record Reviews

Cross-Regional Collections

• The Music of Islām by Celestial Harmonies; David Parsons; Margaret J. Kartomi; Kay Parsons; Jürgen Elsner; Christopher Basile; Timothy D. Fuson; Samir Cherif; John Schaefer. Review by Dieter Christensen.
• A Viagem dos Sons [The Journey of Sounds] by Susana Sardo; Keneth David Jackson; Margaret Sarkissian; Margaret Kartomi; Carlos Piteira; Timorese Association in Victoria Inc.; Tradisom Editora Discográfica; João Soeiro de Carvalho; Rosa Clara Neves; Jorge Castro Ribeiro; Samuel Araújo. Review by Lee Tong Soon.

Africa

• Burkina Faso: Anthology of the Music of the Gan by Patrick Kersalé. Review by Oforiwaa Ama Konadu Aduonum.
• Dònfòli, Play the Music: Bamana and Bozo Songs from Kirango, Mali by Elisabeth den Otter. Review by Alexandre Enkerli.
• Ennanga: Epic Songs from Uganda by Boyd Noorda; Joop Veuger; Michael Oneka. Review by Peter Cooke.
• Guinea: Kpelle Music by Pierre Bois; Francis Comini; Dominque Vander-Heym; François Gründ. Review by Ruth M. Stone.
• Western Sisaala Music from Lambussie, Ghana: In the Time of My Fourth Great-Grandfather by Trevor Wiggins. Review by Oforiwaa Ama Konadu Aduonum.
• Mali: Bambara Music of Baninko by Edda Brandes; Salia Malé; Josué Thierno. Review by Eric Charry.
• Mali: The Dogon. Music of the Masks and the Funeral Rituals by Pierre Bois; François Gründ; Judith Crews. Review by Eric Charry.

Australia and Oceania

• Te Kuki 'Airani. The Cook Islands: Songs, Rhythms and Dances by Ad Linkels; Lucia Linkels. Review by Jane Freeman Moulin.

North America

• Black Appalachia. String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns by Alan Lomax; John A. Lomax; Harold Spivacke; Robert Stuart Jamieson; Margot Mayo; Freyda Simon; Stephen Wade. Review by Travis A. Jackson.
• Black Texicans. Balladeers and Songsters of the Texas Frontier by Alan Lomax; John A. Lomax; Matthew Barton; Paul Olivier. Review by Travis A. Jackson.
• Choose Your Partners! Contra Dance and Square Dance Music of New Hampshire by Gerry Putnam; Ric Watson; Jack Beard; Lunn Martin; Kate Van Winkle Keller. Review by Jonathan T. King.
• Coteau: Highly Seasoned Cajun Music by Coteau Diagle; Tony Diagle; Nick Spitzer. Review by Jonathan T. King.
• Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim like Me! Narrative Poetry from the Black Oral Tradition by Bruce Jackson. Review by Jason Lee Oakes.
• Mississippi John Hurt: Legend by John Hurt; Tom Hoskins; Music Research Inc.. Review by Jonathan T. King.
• Praise the Lord: Gospel Music in Washington, D.C. by Horace Clarence Boyer; Gail S. Lowe; The Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture. Review by Paul Jong-Chul Yoon.
• Prison Songs: Historical Recordings from Parchman Farm, 1947-48 by Alan Lomax. Review by Jeremy Wallach.
• Puerto Rico in Washington by Pete Reiniger; René Lopez; Jorge Pérez Rolón; Juan Flores. Review by Babette Becker.
• River of Song: A Musical Journey down the Mississippi by Elijah Ward. Review by Jonathan T. King.

Central America and the Caribbean

• East Indian Music in the West Indies by Alan Lomax; Peter Manuel. Review by Laxmi G. Tewari.

South America

• El Lobo: Songs and Games of Latin America by Henrietta Yurchenco. Review by Marisol Berrios-Miranda.

East Asia

• Dongjing Music: Where Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist Culture Meet by Zhang Xingrong; Helen Rees. Review by Frederick Lau.
• The Music of Tibetan Buddhism by Peter Crossley-Holland. Review by Wei Li.

Southeast Asia

• Borneo: Music of the Dayak and of the Punan by Manuel Gomes. Review by Philip Yampolsky.
• Indonesian Guitars by Philip Yampolsky. Review by David Novak.
• Jegog: The Rhythmic Power of Bamboo by Martin Ramstedt. Review by Philip Yampolsky.
• Lanna Thai: Instrumental Music of Northwest Thailand by Fred Gales. Review by Deborah Wong.
• Lombok, Kalimantan, Banyumas: Little-Known Forms of Gamelan and Wayang by Philip Yampolsky. Review by David Harnish.
• Thailand: Ceremonial and Court Music from Central Thailand by James S. Upton. Review by Deborah Wong.

West Asia

• Iran: Bardes du Khorassan by Ameneh Youssefzadeh. Review by Stephen Blum.

Europe

• Croatia: Traditional Music. Traditional Music of Today by Croatian Radio-Television; Svanibor Pettan. Review by Zdravko Blažeković.
• Croatie: Musique d'autrefois by Grozdana Marošević. Review by Zdravko Blažeković.
• Judeo-Spanish Songs from Eastern Mediterranean by Pierre Bois; Edwin Seroussi. Review by Walter Zev Feldman.
• Oytsres (Treasures): Klezmer Music 1908-1996 by Joel Rubins; Rita Ottens. Review by Walter Zev Feldman.
• Serbia: An Anthology of Serbian Folk Music by Dimitrije O. Golemović; Katarina Knezević. Review by Stephen Erdely.

Video Review

• The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Europe. Review by Stephen Cottrell.