Introduction: Music Studies and the Idea of Culture, by Richard Middleton Part I Music and Culture Music and Bio-cultural Evolution, Ian Cross Musicology, Anthropology, History, Gary Tomlinson Music and Culture: Historiographies of Disjuncture, Philip Bohlman Comparing Music, Comparing Musicology, Martin Clayton Music and Social Categories, John Shepherd Music and Mediation: Towards a New Sociology of Music, Antoine Hennion Music and Everyday Life, Simon Frith Music, Culture and Creativity, Jason Toynbee Music and Psychology, Eric Clarke Subjectivity Rampant! Music, Hermeneutics and History, Lawrence Kramer Is Historical Musicology Still Possible?, Rob Wegman Social History and Music History, Trevor Herbert Part 2 Issues and Debates Musical Autonomy Revisited, David Clarke Textual Analysis or Thick Description?, Jeff Todd Titon Music, Experience and the Anthropology of Emotion, Ruth Finnegan Musical Materials, Perception and Listening, Nicola Dibben Music as Performance, Nicholas Cook Of Mice and Dogs: Music, Gender and Sexuality at the Long Fin-de-siecle, Ian Biddle Contesting difference: A critique of Africanist ethnomusicology, Kofi Agawu What a difference a name makes: Two instances of African-American popular music, David Brackett Locating the people: Music and the popular, Richard Middleton Music education, cultural capital and social group identity, Lucy Green The cultural study of musical instruments, Kevin Dawe The destiny of 'diaspora' in ethnomusicology, Mark Slobin Globalization and the politics of world music, Martin Stokes Music and the market: The economics of music in the modern world, Dave Laing