Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-305) and index.

Prologue : ethnomusicologists and modern music history / Stephen Blum -- When music makes history / Anthony Seeger -- Ethnomusicology and the meaning of tradition / David B. Coplan -- Jùjú history : toward a theory of sociomusical practice / Christopher A. Waterman -- Historical worldviews of early ethnomusicologists : an East-West encounter in Cairo, 1932 / Ali Jihad Racy -- The interpretation of history and the foundations of authority in the Visnupur Gharana of Bengal / Charles Capwell -- Sufi music and the historicity of oral tradition / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- The history of a Peruvian panpipe style and the politics of interpretation / Thomas Turino -- Music institutions and national consciousness among Polish and Ukrainian peasants / William Noll -- Ravi Shankar as mediator between a traditional music and modernity / Stephen M. Slawek -- An eighteenth-century critic of taste and good taste / Amnon Shiloah -- Arzelie Langley and a lost pantribal tradition / Victoria Lindsay Levine -- Music and the history of tribe-caste interaction in Cho?anagpur / Carol Babiracki -- Indian, East Indian, and West Indian music in Felicity, Trinidad / Helen Myers -- Stability in Blackfoot songs, 1909-1968 / Robert Witmer -- Of Yekkes and chamber music in Israel : ethnomusicological meaning in Western music history / Philip V. Bohlman -- Epilogue : paradigms and stories / Daniel M. Newman.