Articles

• ‘Global Popular Musics and Changing Awareness of Urban Tanzanian Youth’ by Pieter Remes.
• ‘From Schottis to Bonnjazz: Some Remarks on the Construction of Swedishness’ by K. Olle Edström.
• ‘The Politics of Passion: The Impact of Bolero on Brazilian Musical Expressions’ by Samuel Araújo.
• ‘Globalizing Hula’ by Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman.
• ‘Globalization and the Tango’ by Chris Goertzen and María Susana Azzi.
• ‘Growing and Grooving to a Steady Beat: Pop Music in Fifth-Graders' Social Lives’ by Amanda Minks.
• ‘Music, Spirit Possession and the Copyright Law: Cross-Cultural Comparisons and Strategic Speculations’ by Martin Rudoy Scherzinger.

Book Reviews

• Béla Bartók Studies in Ethnomusicology by Benjamin Suchoff. Review by Svanibor Pettan.
• "Vom tönenden Wirbel menschlichen Tuns." Erich M. von Hornbostel als Gestaltpsychologe, Archivar und Musik-wissenschaftler by Sebastian Klotz. Review by Dieter Christensen.
• A Question of Balance: Charles Seeger's Philosophy of Music by Taylor Aitken Greer. Review by Daniel T. Neely.
• Indonesian Music and Dance: Traditional Music and Its Interaction with the West. A Compilation of Articles (1935-1952) by Jaap Kunst Originally Published in Dutch with Biographical Essays by Ernst Heins, Elisabeth den Otter, and Felix van Lamsweerde by Maya Frijn; Sandra Reijnhart; Andrew Baxter. Review by Sarah Weiss.
• In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation by Bruno Nettl; Melinda Russell. Review by Ben Brinner.
• Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology by Paul Théberge. Review by Leslie C. Gay, Jr..
• Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century by Ron Eyerman; Andrew Jamison. Review by Gage Averill.
• The Exotic in Western Music by Jonathan Bellman. Review by Barbara Rose Lange.
• Indian Music and the West by Gerry Farrell. Review by Stephen Slawek.
• Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Allyn Miner. Review by Peter Manuel.
• Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire by Walter Feldman. Review by Martin Stokes.
• The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthūm, Arabic Song and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century by Virginia Danielson. Review by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco.
• Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater by Edward Herbst. Review by Michael B. Bakan.
• Music beyond Sound: Transcriptions of Music for the Chinese Silk-String zither by John Thompson. Review by Mercedes M. Dujunco.
• Chinese Folk Songs and Folk Singers. Shan'ge Tradition in Southern Jiangsu by Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. Review by Yu Hui.
• State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity, and Expressiveness by Joseph S. C. Lam. Review by Li Wei.
• Women's Gidayû and the Japanese Theatre Tradition by A. Kimi Coaldrake. Review by Junko Oba.
• Songs of Spirits: An Ethnography of Sounds in a Papua New Guinea Society by Yoichi Yamada; Jun'ichi Ohno. Review by Steven Feld.
• Souffles d'Amazonie: Les Orchestres "Tule" des Wayãpi by Jean-Michel Beaudet. Review by Rafael José De Menezes Bastos and Acácio Tadeu De Camargo Piedade .
• The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight by Lorna McDaniel. Review by Donald R. Hill.
• Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures by Frances Aparicio. Review by Shannon Dudley.
• Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the Indian Diaspora by Helen Myers. Review by Jayendran Pillay.
• Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music by Kevin O'Brien Chang; Wayne Chang. Review by Daniel T. Neely.
• Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations by Brian Ward. Review by Ingrid Monson.
• Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction by Ingrid Monson. Review by Christopher A. Waterman.
• Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong by John Bealle. Review by Daniel T. Neely.
• Dear Harp of My Country: The Irish Melodies of Thomas Moore by James Flannery; Janet Harbison; Sources of Irish Traditional Music c.1600-1855. An Annotated Catalogue of Prints and Manuscripts 1583-1855 by Aloys Fleischmann; How Shall We Sing in a Foreign Land? Music of Irish Catholic Immigrants in the Antebellum United States by Robert R. Grimes; The Companion to Irish Traditional Music by Fintan Vallely; The Keeper's Recital. Music and Cultural History in Ireland 1770-1970 by Harry White; Seamus Deane. Review by Ann Buckley.
• Fiddling for Norway: Revival and Identity by Chris Goertzen. Review by Carl Rahkonen.
• Sveriges Medeltida Ballader (Sweden's Medieval Ballads) by Bengt R. Jonsson. Review by Richard Jones-Bamman.
• Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings by Jane Sugarman. Review by Ankica Petrović.
• Music, Politics, and War: Views from Croatia by Svanibor Pettan. Review by Ljerka Vidić Rasmussen.
• Sociality. Music. Dance: Human Figurations in a Transylvanian Valley by Paul Nixon. Review by Barbara Rose Lange.
• La médecine de l'âme. Le chant de Sanaa dans la société yéménite by Jean Lambert. Review by Luc Weissenberg.

Record Reviews

Africa

• Dònkili, Call to Dance, Festival Music from Mali by Rainer Polak. Review by Edda Brandes.
• Egypt: Echoes of the Nile, Aspects of Egyptian Music by Nobuo Mizuno. Review by Józef Pacholczyk.
• Music Tradition of Malawi by UNESCO-funded research team; Francis Kakatera; Christopher Kamlongera; James Matebule; Joseph Mndeke; Wapulumuka Mulwafu; Charles Namondwe; Mitchel Strumpf. Review by Wim Van Zanten.
• Madagascar: Land of the Betsimisaraka by Alain Desjacques; Victor Randrianary. Review by August Schmidhofer.
• An Bè Kelen: We Are One. Griot Music from Mali by Jan Jensen; Bonya: Respect. Griot Music from Mali by Jan Jensen. Review by Timothy Mangin.
• The Spirit of Acholi: Songs and Dances of the Acholi in Uganda by Joop Veuger. Review by Peter Cooke.
• Tanzania: Music of the Farmer Composers of Sukumaland by Frank Gunderson. Review by Stephen Hill.
• Uganda and Other African Nations: Feasts of the Savanna, Musical Journey through East and West Africa by Jun Mori. Review by Roberta King.

Australia and Oceania

• Australia: Music from the New England Tablelands of NSW, 1850-1900 by Fritz Kreusler; Al Heeney. Review by Jill Stubington.
• Solomon Islands: 'Are'Are Intimate and Ritual Music by Hugo Zemp. Review by Dieter Christensen.
• Afo 'o e 'ofa: Strings of Love, Tongan Stringband Music by Lucia Linkels; Ad Linkels. Review by Jacob Love.

North America

• Children of the Heav'nly King: Religious Expression in the Central Blue Ridge by Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Field Team; Charles K. Wolf. Review by Carol Fisher Mathieson.
• Deep Polka, Dance Music from the Midwest by Richard March. Review by Charles Keil.
• Harp of a Thousand Strings, All Day Singing from the Sacred Harp by Alan Lomax. Review by Jason Oakes.
• Heartbeat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women. Review by Elaine Keillor.
• The Music of Arab Americans: A Retrospective Collection. Review by Virginia Danielson.
• Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas. Review by J. Richard Haefer.

Central America and the Caribbean

• Brown Girl in the Ring: Game and Pass Play Songs Sung by Children and Adults from Trinidad, Tobago, Dominica, St. Lucia, Anguilla, Nevis, and Carriacou by Alan Lomax. Review by Jason Oakes.
• Caribbean Island Music, Music of Song and Dances from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica by John Storm Roberts. Review by Maurea Landies.
• Cien Años de Tradición: Organo Oriental, Street Organ Music from the Oriente de Cuba by Eugenio Cuayo Ochoa; Manuel de Jesus Leyva Barrera; Guillermo Felix Ayala; Juan Rodriguez; Silvio Rodriguez; Ricardo Veranes. Review by Elizabeth Sayre.
• The Real Bahamas: African American Spirituals, Gospels, and Anthems in Old Rhyming Tradition by Peter K. Siegel; Jody Stecher. Review by Daniel Avorgbedor.

South America

• Vasallos del Sol, Canto de Sirenas by Edgar Espinoza. Review by David Evans.

East Asia

• Lost Melodies Rediscovered, Recordings of the Kawakami Troupe at the 1900 Paris Exposition by Fred Gaisberg. Review by Joseph Lam.

Southeast Asia

• Gamelan Degung, Classical Music of Sunda, West Java by Ernst Heins. Review by Henry Spiller.
• Night Music of West Sumatra by Philip Yampolsky; Melayu Music of Sumatra and the Riau Islands by Philip Yampolsky; Gongs and Vocal Music from Sumatra by Philip Yampolsky. Review by Margaret Kartomi.
• Kalimantan: Dayak Ritual and Festival Music by Philip Yampolsky. Review by Gini Gorlinski.
• Music from the Forests of Riau and Mentawai by Philip Yampolsky. Review by Bart Barendregt.
• Music from the Southeast, Sumbawa, Sumba, Timor by Philip Yampolsky. Review by R. Anderson Sutton.
• South Sulawesi Strings by Philip Yampolsky. Review by Gini Gorlinski.
• Udan Mas Ensemble Lingkung Seni 'Malati,' with Ida Widawati. Review by Henry Spiller.

South Asia

• India: Traveling Artists of the Desert. The Vernacular Musical Culture of Rajasthan by Keiji Azami. Review by Paul D. Greene.
• Shiva Mahadeva. Dagar Brothers. Dhrupad, Classical Vocal Music of North India. Review by Joseph J. Palackal.

Central Asia

• Jargalant Altai: Xöömii and Other Vocal and Instrumental Music from Mongolia by Chris Johnston. Review by Tran Quang Hai.
• Khomus: Jew's Harp Music of Turkic Peoples in the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia by Vyacheslav Shurov. Review by Gjermund Kolltvett.
• Mongolia: Living Music of the Steppes. Instrumental Music and Song of Mongolia by Haruo Hasumi. Review by Trân Quang Hai.

West Asia

• Djanali Akberov (Trio Khân Shushinski). Mugam d'Azerbaijan by Pierre Simonin; Pierre Bois; Gandab Gulieva. Mugam d'Azerbaijan by Pierre Simonin; Pierre Bois. Review by Leo J. Plenckers.
• Afghanistan: Traditional Musicians. A Journey to an Unknown Musical World by WDR; Afghanistan: On Marco Polo's Road, The Musicians of Kunduz and Faizabad by Tomoaki Fujii; Tokiko Nobusawa. Review by John Baily.
• Kayhan Kalhor: Scattering Stars like Dust by Patrick Derivaz. Review by Wendy S. DeBano.
• Madāhkhānī, Ghazalkhānī, Dafsāz: Religious Music from Badakhshān by Jan van Belle. Review by Lorraine Sakata.
• The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch: Liturgical Chants of Lent and Good Friday by Habib Hassan Touma. Review by Ines Weinrich.
• Mystical Legacies: Ali Jihad Racy Performs Music of the Middle East (Accompanied by Souhail Kaspar). Review by Anne K. Rasmussen.
• Uzundärä: Ancient Wedding Dance Music of Azerbaijan by Boyd Noorda. Review by Veronica Doubleday.
• Women of Istanbul. Review by Susanne Ziegler.
• Women's Love and Life: Female Folklore from Azerbaijan by Taira Kerimova. Review by Razia Sultanova.

Europe

• Norway: Fiddle and Hardanger Fiddle Music from Agder by Vidar Lande. Review by Carl Rahkonen.
• Hungary and Romania: Descendents of the Itinerant Gypsies. Melodies of Sorrow and Joy by Kazuyuki Tanimoto; Norio Inagaki; Mark Greenberg; Tokiko Nobusawa. Review by Eva Kiss.
• Georgia: The Resounding Polyphony of the Caucasus by Minoru Morita. Review by Susanne Ziegler.
• Solovka: The Moscow Folk Song Ensemble by Viacheslav Shchurov; Moscow Radio; Jovan E. Howe. Review by Izaly Zemtsovsky.

Film Reviews

• El Charanguero by Jeffrey Briggs; Simona Muñoz-Briggs; Cecilia Castillo. Review by Enrique Camara De Landa.
• An Argentinian Journey by Jana Bokova. Review by Deborah Schwartz-Kates.
• Massana: Moments in Yaka Play and Ritual by Ingrid Pfrang-Lewis; Nicolas Lewis. Review by Steven Feld.
• The Music District by Susan Levitas. Review by Charles Keil.