Introduction / Richard K. Wolf
Women and Kandyan dance : negotiating gender and tradition in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed.
Listening to the violin in South Indian classical music / Amanda Weidman.
Local practice, global network : the guitar in India as a case study / Martin Clayton
Constructing the local : migration and cultural geography in the Indian brass band trade / Gregory D. Booth.
The princess of the musicians : Ran̄i Bhaṭiyaṇ̄i and the man̄gaṇiar̄s of Western Rajasthan / Shubha Chaudhuri. Music in urban space : Newar Buddhist processional music in the Kathmandu Valley / Gert-Matthias Wegner.
Learning and transmission.
Disciple and preceptor/performer in Kerala / Rolf Groesbeck.
Sin̄a ba sin̄a or "from father to son" : writing the culture of discipleship / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi.
Handmade in Nepal / David Henderso.
Theorizing social action.
Modes of theorizing in Iranian khorasan / Stephen Blum.
Zahir̄ok : the musical base of Baloch minstrelsy / Sabir Badalkhan.
Varṇams and vocalizations : the special status of some musical beginnings / Richard K. Wolf.
