The International Council for Traditional Music is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 49 (2017) of the Yearbook for Traditional Music, with the following contents:

• ‘Traditional Music and the Work-Concept: The Kayagŭm Sanjo of Hwang Byungki’ by Andrew Killick
• ‘Making Traditions: Girls’ Carnival Morris Dancing and Material Practice’ by Lucy Wright
• ‘Stomping on the Ground: Dancing Flamenco through Tokyo’s Soundscape’ by Yolanda van Ede
• ‘Dancing the Archive: Rhythms of Change in Montserrat’s Masquerades’ by Kathleen A. Spanos
• ‘Conceptualizing Noongar Song’ by Clint Bracknell
• ‘Musical Spirits and Powerful Voices: On the Origins of Song’ by Bernd Brabec de Mori
• ‘Liminal Utterances and Shapes of Sadness: Local and Acoustic Perspectives on Vocal Production among the Yezidis of Armenia’ by Estelle Amy de la Bretèque, Boris Doval, Lionel Feugère, Louis Moreau-Gaudry
• ‘Unimagining Song: Making Kin in the Vocal Scene’ by Chris Tonelli

Volume 49 also contains 8 book reviews, 15 audio reviews, 3 film/video reviews, and 4 website reviews. Audiovisual support materials are available on the issue's homepage. 

The Yearbook for Traditional Music is a refereed scholarly journal which carries essays, reviews, and reports in the area of traditional music and dance research. For more information on how to obtain a copy, please visit the Yearbook's main page.