The first voices / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The beginnings of music / Charles S. Myers
The boundaries of speech and song / George List
The separation of speech and song / Jacques Derrida
Poetry and music / Richard Wagner
Oral mnemonics for the Japanese noh flute / David Hughes
Drum signalling in a West African tribe / George Herzog
The voice as a musical instrument / Simon Frith
Working-class 'country' / Steven Feld ... [et al.]
Music, voice, language / Roland Barthes
'Hey Jude' / Tim Riley
The voice of Egypt / Virginia Danielson
Siddheshwari Devi sings / Sheila Dhar
Text and performance in thumri / Peter Manuel
The meaning of song / Victor Zuckerkandl
Hazara lullabies / Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
Race, class and gender in Carmen / Susan McClary
O brother, where art thou? and the blues / Richard Middleton
Jùjú live / Christopher Waterman
Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in the music of Public Enemy / Robert Walser
The Maori haka / Jan Bolwell, Keri Kaa
Wassailing in Somerset / Kingsley Palmer, Robert W. Patten
The carol revival / Frank Howes
Papal legislation on sacred music / Robert F. Hayburn
Jungle paths and spirit songs / Marina Roseman
The Karelian lament / Elizabeth Tolbert
Russian wedding rituals and Stravinsky / Richard Taruskin
Lamenting in Stravinsky's Les Noces / Pieter C. van den Toorn
The Sicilian cantastorie / Mauro Geraci
Song and performance / Edward Cone
The bell song / Carolyn Abbate
The little blueprint? An amplification of the meaning of 'libretto' / Gordon Kalton Williams
Sondheim's technique / Stephen Sondheim, Trevor Herbert
Writing lyrics / Oscar Hammerstein
Afternoon raag / Amit Chaudhuri
The Vinteuil sonata / Marcel Proust.