Contents: Introduction; Part I Gender and Sexuality: Sic ego te dilegebam: music, homoeroticism and the sacred in early modern Europe, Todd M. Borgerding; On a lesbian relationship with music: a serious effort not to think straight, Suzanne G. Cusick; Introduction: voice, queer, technologies, Freya Jarman-Ivens; Masculine discourse in music theory, Fred Everett Maus; Introduction: a material girl in Bluebeard's castle, Susan McClary; Negotiating masculinity in an Indonesian pop song: Doel Sumbang's 'Ronggeng', Henry Spiller. Part II Race: Dancing with the enemy: Cuban popular music, race, authenticity, and the world-music landscape, Deborah Pacini Hernandez; The Yiddish are coming, Josh Kun; 'Are you afraid of the mix of black and white?' Hip hop and the spectacular politics of race, Russell A. Potter; Béla Bartók and the rise of comparative ethnomusicology: nationalism, race purity, and the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Katie Trumpener. Part III Social Identities: The final borderpost, Philip V. Bohlman; Social stratification and cultural consumption: music in England, Tak Wing Chan and John H. Goldthorpe; 'At the twilight's last scoring', Anahid Kassabian; That's my blood down there, George Lipsitz; 'Losing...my religion: music, disability, gender and Jewish and Islamic law, Alex Lubet; Politics, identity, and nostalgia in Nigerian music: a study of Victor Olaiya's highlife, Bode Omojola; The Qur'ân in Indonesian daily life: the public project of musical oratory, Anne K. Rasmussen; Music and the global order, Martin Stokes; Name index.