Ethnomusicology: a contemporary reader

Commodification and consumption. Sultans of spin : Syrian sacred music on the world stage / Jonathan H. Shannon. Sounds like the Mall of America : programmed music and the architectonics of commercial space / Jonathan Sterne

Cultural tourism and travel. Culture, tourism, and cultural tourism : boundaries and frontiers in performances of Balinese music and dance / Peter Dunbar-Hall. Folk festival as modern ritual in the Polish Tatra Mountains / Timothy J. Cooley

Gender and sexuality. Taiko and the Asian/American body : drums, rising sun, and the question of gender / Deborah Wong. Empowering self, making choices, creating spaces : black female identity via rap music performance / Cheryl L. Keyes. The frame drum in the Middle East : women, musical instruments, and power / Veronica Doubleday

Globalization and glocalization. On redefining the 'local' through world music / Jocelyne Guilbault. The canned sardine spirit takes the mic / Marina Roseman. A musical instrument travels around the world : jenbe playing in Bamako, West Africa, and beyond ; Rainer Polak

Media, technology, and technoculture. Mozart in mirrorshades : ethnomusicology, technology, and the politics of representation / René T. A. Lysloff. Technology and the production of Islamic space : the call to prayer in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee. Acting up, talking tech : New York rock musicians and their metaphors of technology / Leslie C. Gay, Jr.

Nationalism and transnationalism. The sonic dimensions of nationalism in modern China : musical representation and transformation / Sue Tuohy. Russia's new anthem and the negotiation of national identity / J. Martin Daughtry. 'Mezanmi, kouman nou ye? My friends, how are you?' : musical constructions of the Haitian transnation / Gage Averill. 'Indian' music in the diaspora : case studies of "chutney" in Trinidad and in London / Tina K. Ramnarine

Place and embodiment. The embodiment of salsa : musicians, instruments, and the performance of a Latin style and identity / Patria Roman-Velazquez. Dueling landscapes : singing places and identities in Highland Bolivia / Tom Solomon

Racial and ethnic identities. American Indian rap and reggae : dancing to the beat of a different drummer / Neal Ullestad. From 'I'm a Lapp' to 'I am Saami' : popular music and changing images of indigenous ethnicity in Scandinavia / Richard Jones-Bamman

Social and political action. Cajun music, cultural revival : theorizing political action in popular music / Mark Mattern. Nitmiluk : place and empowerment in Australian Aboriginal popular music / Chris Gibson and Peter Dunbar-Hall. Culture, conservation, and community reconstruction : explorations in advocacy ethnomusicology and participatory action research in northern KwaZulu Natal / Angela Impey.