Contributors:

Barbara Browning, Steven Feld, Philip Hayward, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Denis-Constant Martin, Rafael José de Menezes Bastos, Daniel Noveck, Richard M.Shain, Timothy D.Taylor, Bob W.White

Rethinking globalization through music / Bob W. White -
1: Structured encounters -
The musical heritage of slavery : from Creolization to "world music" / Denis-Constant Martin -
My life in the bush of ghosts : "world music" and the commodification of religious experience / Steven Feld -
A place in the world : globalization, music, and cultural identity in contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward -
Musicality and environmentalism in the rediscovery of Eldorado : an anthropology of the Raoni-Sting encounter / Rafael José de Menezes Bastos -
2: Mediated encounters -
"Beautiful blue" : Rarámuri violin music in a cross-border space / Daniel Noveck -
World music producers and the cuban frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant -
Trovador of the Black Atlantic : Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban music / Richard M. Shain -
3: Imagined encounters -
Slave ship on the infosea : contaminating the system of circulation / Barbara Browning -
World music of today / Timothy D. Taylor -
The promise of world music : strategies for non-essentialist listening / Bob W. White.