Music and politics on the Korean peninsula

+++Contents: * Max Peter Baumann: From the Editor ++Articles * Nathan Hesselink: Music and Politics on the Korean Peninsula (Introduction) * Robert C. Provine: Music, Measurements, Pitch Survivals, and Bell Shapes in Korea * Nam Sang-sook: The Debate over the Distortion of Chongmyo Cheryeak * Roald Maliangkay: Their Masters' Voice: Korean Traditional Music SPs (Standard Play Records) under Japanese Colonial Rule * Nathan Hesselink: Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and Its Transformative Potential in South Korea * Kwon Ohsung: The Re-formation of Traditional Folksongs in North Korea ++Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.) * Thomas Burkhalter: Ines Weinrich, Fayruz und die Brüder Rahbani: Musik, Moderne und Nation im Libanoni> * Chris Goertzen: Erynn Marshall, Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions * Maria Williams: Michael Pisani, Imagining Native America in Music * Andrew G. Wood: Jocelyne Guilbault, Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnicval Music * Jason Toynbee: Wendy Fonarow, Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music * Ciro Lo Muzio: Pia Srinivasan Buonomo, Il raga che porta la pioggia * Joao Junqueira: Martha Ulhoa and Ana Maria Ochoa, Musica Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta ++Recording Reviews (Dan Bendrups, ed.) * Jesse Samba Wheeler: In the Blood: Portrait of a Griot, directed by Aleksi Oksanen and Jari Järvi, produced by Kaarna Productions, DVD * Nino Tsitsishvili: Funeral Chants from the Georgian Caucasus. Film by Hugo Zemp, Collection Süpor Xao, DVD * Joseph S. Kaminski: An African Brass Band. Film by Hugo Zemp, Collection Süpor Xao, DVD * Aleksi Oksanen: Siaka, an African Musician. Film by Hugo Zemp, Collection Süpor Xao, DVD ++About the Contributors