The most recent scholarship available in the field of Ethnomusicolgy is presented in this collection of essays, which seeks to reveal the commonality of traditional music in the Mediterranean region. An interdisciplinary approach to the study embraces not only musicology and ethnology, but also material culture considerations. In spite of the complexity of the topic treated here, care has been taken to use simple, readable language that will be relevant to serious musicologists and general readers alike.

Part 1 Series Foreword Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Introduction Part 4 Part 1 Nation and History Chapter 5 1 Sound Sense: Mediterranean Music from a Turkish Perspective Chapter 6 2 A Family of Song: Reflections of Albanian Urban Lyric Chapter 7 3 "Humanizing the Masses": Enlightened Intellectuals and the Music of the People Part 8 Part 2 Broadcasting and New Media Chapter 9 4 Robert Lachmann's Oriental Music: A Broadcasting Initiative in 1930s Palestine Chapter 10 5 Outside-In: Music, New Media and Tradition in North Africa Part 11 Part 3 Men and Women Chapter 12 6 Performance on a Mediterranean Theme: Musicians and Masculinity in Crete Chapter 13 7 Anda Jaleo! Celebrating Creativity in Flamenco Song Part 14 Part 4 "Mediterranean Music" Chapter 15 8 Anchors and Sails: Music and Culture Contact in Corsica Chapter 16 9 Open Textures: On Mediterranean Music Part 17 Part 5 The Traveling Mediterranean Chapter 18 10 Algerian Rai into Beur Rai: The Music of Return Chapter 19 11 On Imagining the Mediterranean Part 20 Index Part 21 About the Contributors