Contents:
+++ Articles
* Anne K. Rasmussen: Preface
* Majid Al-Harthy and Anne K. Rasmussen: Music in Oman: An Overture
* Laith Ulaby: On the Decks of Dhows: Musical Traditions of Oman and the Indian Ocean World
* Anne K. Rasmussen: The Musical Design of National Space and Time in Oman
* Majid Al-Harthy: African Identities, Afro-Omani Music, and the Official Constructions of a Musical Past
+++ Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.)
* Joshua D. Pilzer: John Morgan O'Connell and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (eds.), Music and Conflict
* Maurice Mengel: Bruno Nettl, Nettl's Elephant: On the History of Ethnomusicology
* Helena Simonett: Ruth Herbert, Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing
* Jesus A. Ramos-Kittrell: Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Oye Como Va! Hybridity and Identity in Latino Popular Music
* Nancy Cassell McEntire: Sean Williams, Focus: Irish Traditional Music
* Barbara Alge: Ramón Pelinski, La Danza de Todolella. Memoria, historia y usos políticos de la danza de espadas
* Sabina Pauta Pieslak: Marin Marian-Balasa, Muzicologii, Etnologii, Subiectivitati, Politici. [Musicologies, Ethnologies, Subjectivities, Politics]
* Sydney Hutchinson: Henry Spiller, Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java.
+++ Recording Reviews (Dan Bendrups, ed.)
* Robin Harris: Siberia: At the Centre of the World-Music, Dance and Ritual in Sakha-Yakutia and Buryatia. A production of the AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance in collaboration with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2008)
* Donna Weston: Musique des Albanais de Calabre, AIMP CI, VDE CD-1340, Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d'Ethnographie (MEG), Genève (2011)
* Donna Weston: La cérémonie des derviches de Konya, CD AIMP XCVIII, VDE 1324, Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d'Ethnographie (MEG), Genève (2011)
* Dan Bendrups: Wax Cylinder Recordings from Palau, Micronesia 1909-1936, Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv Historical Sound Documents 6, BPhA-WA 6 (2011)
+++ Website Reviews (Frances Wilkins, ed.)
* Robert Young Walser: Digital Library of Appalachia
* Eamonn Costello: Joe Heaney
* Susana Moreno Fernandez: Rabeca: A Map and Database of the Brazilian and Portuguese Rabeca and the Guarani Rawe
* Byron Dueck: Native Dance
* Cara Stacey andNatalie Mason: The South African Music Archive Project (SAMAP)
* Ronnie Gibson: Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches
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