Contesting tradition

Articles + Frank Gunderson: Preface + Shannon Dudley: Creativity and Control in Trinidad Carnival Competitions + Gavin Douglas: The Sokayeti Performing Arts Competition of Burma/Myanmar: Performing the Nation + Rebecca S. Miller: "Me 'Ain Lie on Nobody!„ Locality, Regionalism, and Identity at the Parang String Band Competition in Carriacou, Grenada + Sean Williams: Competing Against “Tradition" in the Sundanese Performing Arts + Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza: Competitions in School Festivals: A Process of Re-inventing Baakisimba Music and Dance of the Baganda (Uganda) + Ramona Holmes: It's a Girl Bonding Thing: Softball Cheers in the United States + Chris Goertzen: Galax, Virginia's „Old Fiddlers Convention“: The Virtues and Flaws of a Giant Fiddle Contest Book Reviews (Jonathan Stock, ed.) + Denis-Constant Martin: Review Essay: Technology, and the Contradictions of Globalisation. Gebesmair, Andreas and Alfred Smudits, eds. Global Repertoires: Popular Music Within and Beyond the Transnational Music Industry and Taylor, Timothy D. Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, and Culture + Keith Howard: Bohlmann, Philip V.: World Muisc: A Very Short Introduction + Beverly Diamond: Muller, Carol Ann: Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire. Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa + Marin Marian-Balasa: Reichl, Karl, ed. The Oral Epic: Performance and Music + Henry Spiller: Williams, Sean. The Sound of the Ancestral Ship: Highland Music of West Java + Gisela Pobst-Effah: Hemetek, Ursula. Mosaik der Klänge: Musik der ethnischen und religiösen Minderheiten in Österreich + Auste Nakenie: Ceribasic, Naila and Grozdana Marosevic, eds. Glazba, Folklor i Kultura: Svecani zbornik za Jerka Bezica / Music, Folklore, and Culture: Essays in Honour of Jerko Bezic + Briefly Mentioned + Suzel Ana Reily: Quintero-Rivera, Mareia. A cor e o som da nacao: a ideia de mesticagem na critica musical do Caribe hisanico e o do Brasil (1928-1948) + Jonathan J. P. Stock: Bartok, Bela. Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor, rev. ed. and Lenoir, Yves, chief ed. Archives Bela Bartok de Belgique: Fonds Denijs Dille CD Reviews (Gregory F. Barz, ed.) + Nancy Elisabeth Currey: Eglise Syriaque Orthodoxe D'Antioche / The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch: Chants Liturgiques du Careme et du Vendredi Saint. INEDIT + Gregory F. Barz: Tanzania: Music of the Farmer Composers of Sukumaland: We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming. Multicultural Media About the Contributors