The idea of a global history of music may be traced back to the Enlightenment, and today, the question of a conceptual framework for a history of music that pays due attention to global relationships in music is often raised. The studies presented in this volume aim to promote post-European historical thinking. They are based on the idea that a

Introduction; 1 Notes and queries on 'global music history', Martin Stokes; Enlightenment; 2 Ancient Greeks, world music, and early modern constructions of Western European identity, David R. M. Irving; 3 Analytical encounters: global music criticism and enlightenment ethnomusicology, Estelle Joubert; 4 Musical thought in the global enlightenments, Philip V. Bohlman; East Asia; 5 Voice and song in early encounters between Latins, Mongols, and Persians, ca.1250-ca.1350, Jason Stoessel; 6 'The transformation of the world': Silk Road musics, cross-cultural approaches, and contemporary metaphors, Max Peter Baumann; 7 Music education in modern Japanese society, Rinko Fujita; 8 The (musical) imaginarium of Konishi Yasuharu, or how to make Western music Japanese, Oliver Seibt; 9 'European music' outside Europe? Musical entangling and intercrossing in the case of Korea's modern history, Jin-Ah Kim; 10 Korean music: definitions and practices, Keith Howard; 11 East Asia in a global historical perspective - approaches and challenges, Nicola Spakowski; South and South-East Asia; 12 Heavy metal bamboo: how archaic bamboo instruments became modern in Bandung, Indonesia, Henry Spiller; 13 Cultural autonomy and the 'Indian Exception': debating the aesthetics of Indian classical music in early 20th-century Calcutta, Matthew Pritchard; 14 Orientalism and beyond: Tagore, Foulds, and cross-cultural exchanges between Indian and Western musicians, Suddhaseel Sen; America; 15 Why did Indians sing? The appropriation of European musical practices by South-American natives in the Jesuit reducciones, Leonardo J. Waisman; 16 The global mission in the music of Jesuit drama, Tomasz Je¿; 17 From 'abandoned huts' to 'maps of the pampas': the topos of the Huella and the representation of landscape in Argentine art music, Melanie Plesch; 18 'Minor Mode and the Andes': the pentatonic scale as topic and the musical representation of Peru, Julio Mendívil; 19 'The rending call of the poor and forsaken street crier': the political and expressive dimension of a topic in Silvestre Revueltas's early works, Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus; 20 Passion and disappointment: waltz and danza topics in a Venezuelan musical nationalism masterpiece, Juan Francisco Sans; 21 Festivals, violins and global music histories: examples from the Caribbean and Canada, Tina K. Ramnarine