Critical encounters
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.