Why it all began. From broadsides to Child ballads : songs of the British people ; Orientalists from France : Jesuit priests in Beijing, Salvador-Daniel in Algiers ; Going native in Constantinople : Dimitrie Centemir, the happy hostage
The birth of ethnomusicology. The song of approach, the pipes of friendship : Alice Fletcher and the Omaha Indians ; "I am now a true Eskimo" : Franz Boas and first principles ; Voice of Armenia : the tragedy of Komitas ; Britain's folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp ; "I in seventh heaven
Perks" : the ineffable Percy Grainger
Carrying the torch : collectors in Northern and Eastern Europe. "And what does the gentleman want" : Béla Bartók as song detective ; Girdling the globe : the empire of the Lomaxes ; "I am a white-skineed Aranda man" : Theodor Strehlow's divided self ; The stirring of a thousand bells : Jaap Kunst, Colin McPhee, and gamelan ; Hot mint tea and a few pipes of kif : Paul Bowles in Morocco ; A voice for Greece : Donna Samiou's crusade ; Things that are made to cry : John Blacking and the Venda ; Record companies as collectors : from Folkways to Muziekpublique
Musical snapshots : the importance of sound archives. Magic in two strings : Central Asia awakes ; Red badge of courage : musicians in Afghanistan ; Out of the womb in Russia : riches awaiting rediscovery ; Three-in-one : the Georgian way ; Small is beautiful : Pygmy polyphony ; It's a physical thing : a Persian musician relocates the radif ; Plucking the winds : Chinese village music today ; Voice, handkerchief, fan : new life for Korea's p'ansori ; "My whole body was singing" : kodo and the taiko drum ; "Intangilble cultural heritage" : UNESCO's lengthening list ; Going, going ... : disappearing musics.
