Introduction Why it all began 1 From broadsides to Child ballads: Songs of the British people 2 Orientalists from France: Jesuit priests in Beijing, Salvador-Daniel in Algiers 3 Going native in Constantinople: Dimitrie Cantemir, the happy hostage The birth of ethnomusicology 4 The Song of Approach, the Pipes of Friendship: Alice Fletcher and the Omaha Indians 5 'I am now a true Eskimo': Franz Boas and first principles 6 Voice of Armenia: The tragedy of Komitas 7 Britain's folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp 8 'I in seventh heaven - Perks': The ineffable Percy Grainger Carrying the torch: Collectors in Northern and Eastern Europe 9 'And what does the gentleman want': Béla Bartók as song detective 10 Girdling the globe: The empire of the Lomaxes 11 'I am a white-skinned Aranda man': Theodore Strehlow's divided self 12 The stirring of a thousand bells: Jaap Kunst, Colin McPhee, and gamelan 13 Hot mint tea and a few pipes of kif: Paul Bowles in Morocco 14 A voice for Greece: Domna Samiou's crusade 15 Things that are made to cry: John Blacking and the Venda 16 Record companies as collectors: Folkways, Smithsonian, Nonesuch, IMA, Ocora, World Circuit, Topic, Pan, Muziekpublique Musical snapshots: The importance of sound archives 17 Magic in two strings: Central Asia awakes 18 Red badge of courage: Musicians in Afghanistan 19 Out of the womb of Russia: Riches awaiting rediscovery 20 Three-in-one: The Georgian way 21 Small is beautiful: Pygmy polyphony 22 It's a physical thing: A Persian musician relocates the radif 23 Plucking the winds: Chinese village music today 24 Voice, handkerchief, fan: New life for Korea's p'ansori 25 'My whole body was singing': Kodo and the taiko drum 26 'Intangible cultural heritage': UNESCO's lengthening list 27 Going, going...: disappearing musics Sources and further reading Bibliography Index

Musics Lost and Found

Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition