Articles

+ Frank Gunderson: Preface
+ Shannon Dudley: Creativity and Control in Trinidad Carnival Competitions
+ Gavin Douglas: The Sokayeti Performing Arts Competition of Burma/Myanmar: Performing the Nation
+ Rebecca S. Miller: "Me 'Ain Lie on Nobody!" Locality, Regionalism, and Identity at the Parang String Band Competition in Carriacou, Grenada
+ Sean Williams: Competing Against "Tradition" in the Sundanese Performing Arts
+ Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza: Competitions in School Festivals: A Process of Re-inventing Baakisimba Music and Dance of the Baganda (Uganda)
+ Ramona Holmes: It's a Girl Bonding Thing: Softball Cheers in the United States
+ Chris Goertzen: Galax, Virginia's "Old Fiddlers Convention": The Virtues and Flaws of a Giant Fiddle Contest

Book Reviews (Jonathan Stock, ed.)

+ Denis-Constant Martin: Review Essay: Technology, and the Contradictions of Globalisation. Gebesmair, Andreas and Alfred Smudits, eds. Global Repertoires: Popular Music Within and Beyond the Transnational Music Industry and Taylor, Timothy D. Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, and Culture
+ Keith Howard: Bohlmann, Philip V.: World Muisc: A Very Short Introduction
+ Beverly Diamond: Muller, Carol Ann: Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire. Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa
+ Marin Marian-Balasa: Reichl, Karl, ed. The Oral Epic: Performance and Music
+ Henry Spiller: Williams, Sean. The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java
+ Gisela Pobst-Effah: Hemetek, Ursula. Mosaik der Klänge: Musik der ethnischen und religiösen Minderheiten in Österreich
+ Auste Nakenie: Ceribasic, Naila and Grozdana Marosevic, eds. Glazba, Folklor i Kultura: Svecani zbornik za Jerka Bezica / Music, Folklore, and Culture: Essays in Honour of Jerko Bezic
+ Briefly Mentioned
+ Suzel Ana Reily: Quintero-Rivera, Mareia. A cor e o som da nacao: a ideia de mesticagem na critica musical do Caribe hisanico e o do Brasil (1928-1948)
+ Jonathan J.P. Stock: Bartok, Bela. Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor, rev. ed. and Lenoir, Yves, chief ed. Archives Bela Bartok de Belgique: Fonds Denijs Dille

CD Reviews (Gregory F. Barz, ed.)

+ Nancy Elisabeth Currey: Eglise Syriaque Orthodoxe D'Antioche / The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch: Chants Liturgiques du Careme et du Vendredi Saint. INEDIT
+ Gregory F. Barz: Tanzania: Music of the Farmer Composers of Sukumaland: We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming. Multicultural Media

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