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Reviews the book "Les Bardes du Khorassan Iranien: Le Bakhshi et son Répertoire," by Ameneh Youssefzadeh.

books KUNST REDUX! JAAP KUNST, Indonesian music and dance: traditional music and its interaction with the West. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute & University of Amsterdam, 1994. ISBN 90–6832–240–0. 273pp., biographical essays, map, photos, music exx., bibliographies, appendices. L.M. VAN PROOSDIJ‐TEN HAVE & M.J. VAN ROON (ed.) Jaap Kunst, correspondence 1920–1940: an annotated index. The Hague: Royal Library, 1992. ISBN 90–9005767–6. 267pp., photos, addenda. HFL 40 & costs. Order from L. van Proosdij, le Lindendwarsstraat 14/16, 1015 LG Amsterdam. WIM VAN ZANTEN & MARJOLEIN VAN ROON (ed.) OIDEION: the performing arts world‐wide, vol. 2. Special Issue: Ethnomusicology in the Netherlands; present situation and traces of the past. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1995. ISBN 90–73782–44–9. ix + 330pp., music exx., photos, bibliographies. KOFI AGAWU, African rhythm: a Northern Ewe perspective. Cambridge University Press, 1995. xx + 217 pp. Compact disc included. 19 b&w photos, music exx., bibliography, index. ISBN 0 521148084 1. CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE, Marabi nights: early South African jazz and vaudeville. Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1993. xii + 116pp., 8 figures, appendix, index, cassette. ISBN 0–86975–439–4 paper. JOHN BLACKING, Music, culture, and experience: selected papers of John Blacking. Ed. & intro. by Reginald Byron. University of Chicago Press, 1995. xii + 269pp., music exx., map, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–226–08829–4 cloth, 0–226–08830–8 paper. £36.75 cloth, £14.25 paper. DAVID B. COPLAN, In the time of the cannibals: the word music of South Africa's Basotho migrants. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994. xxii + 300pp., 16 photos, map, 2 transcriptions, references, index. ISBN 0–226–11573–9 cloth, 0–226–11574–7 paper. ESTHER A. DAGAN (ed.) Drums: the heartbeat of Africa. Galérie Amrad African Art Publications, 1993. 223pp., illustrations, photographs, glossary, bibliography. ISBN 0–969381–9–1. BEVERLEY DIAMOND, M. SAM CRONK & FRANZISKA VON ROSEN, Visions of sound: musical instruments of First Nations communities in northeastern America. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994. xvi + 222pp., 164 b&w photos, 27 colour plates, 25 figures, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–226–14475–5 cloth, 0–226–14476–3 paper. UKf 37.95 cloth, £15.95 paper. CHARLES KEIL & STEVEN FELD, Music grooves. University of Chicago Press, 1994. vii + 402pp., b&w photos, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–226–42956–3 cloth, 0–226–42957–1 paper. HELEN MYERS (ed.) Eihnomusicology: an introduction. The Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music. Macmfllan, 1992.487 pp., illustrations, musical examples, bibliographies. TIMOTHY RICE, May it fill your soul: experiencing Bulgarian music University of Chicago Press, 1994. 396pp., 25 illus., 67 mus. exx., compact disc, notes, refs., index. ISBN 0–226–71121–8 cloth, 0–226–71122–6 paper. UK£51.95 cloth, £19.95 paper. Tatsuko TAKIZAWA (ed.) Perspectives of music education in Japan and ASEAN countries. Distributed by Academia Music, Hongo 3–16–5, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan. 1992. ISBN 4–87017–951–2. 116pp., photographs & school timetables. J. LAWRENCE WITZLEBEN, "Silk and bamboo” music in Shanghai: the Jiangnan sizhu instrumental ensemble tradition. Kent State University Press, 1995. xxii + 197 pp. Music exx., black&white photos, character list, glossary, index. ISBN 0–87338–499–7. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PETER CLOUDSLEY, A survey of music in Peru. British Museum Occasional Paper 71. Department of Ethnography, 1993. 50pp. Song texts, photos, glossary, bibliography, discography. GERRY FARRELL, South Asian music teaching in change. London: David Fulton [2 Barbon Cl., London WC1N 3JX], 1994. £10.99 (paper). ISBN 1 85346 330 2. PETER JEFFERY, Re‐envisioning past musical cultures: ethnomusicology in the study of Gregorian chant. University of Chicago Press, 1992. ISBN 0–226–39579–0. ix, 211pp., 2 music examples, bibliography, index. £19.25. TUNDE JEGEDE, African classical music and the Griot tradition. London: Diabate Arts, 1994. 64 pp. TUNDE JEGEDE, Cycle of Reckoning. Diabate Arts, 1991. Cassette recording. JACOB WAINWRIGHT LOVE, Sāmoan variations: essays on the nature of traditional oral arts. Garland Publishing. Pp. xvi, 327. ISBN 0 8240 2985 2. $65. JÜRG WASSMANN, The song to the flying fox: the public and esoteric knowledge of the important men of Kandingei about totemic songs, names and knotted cords (Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea). Trans. D.Q. Stephenson. Boroko: PNG National Research Institute (enquiries to Publication Sales Division, PO Box 5854, Boroko, Papua New Guinea), xxi, 313 pp. ISBN 9980 68 018 0. PETER MANUEL, Cassette culture: popular music and technology in North India. University of Chicago Press, 1993. xix, 302 pp., 5 illus., bibliography, glossary, index. ISBN (cloth) 0–226–50399–2; (paper) 0–226–50401–8. £17.50 (paper). ALLYN MINER, Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th centuries. Intercultural Music Studies 5, Berlin: International Institute for Traditional Music/ Florian Noetzel Verlag, 1993. 265pp., 89 illus., 72 mus. exx., bibliography, index. ISBN 3–7959–0666–0 (paper). ALLAN F. MOORE, Rock: the primary text. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993. ix, 227pp., music examples, notes, glossary, bibliography, discography, index. ISBN 0–335–09787–1 NEIL V. ROSENBERG, ed. Transforming tradition: folk music revivals examined. A publication in the series Folklore and Society, edited by Roger Abrahams, Bruce Jackson, and Marta Weigle, in the series Music in American Life, and a Publication of the American Folklore Society, General Editor, Patrick B. Mullen. Forward by Alan Jabbour. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. xiii, 340 pp., music examples, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–252–01982–2. Cloth, $29.95 LEWIS ROWELL, Music and musical thought in early India. University of Chicago Press, 1992. xvii, 409pp., 1 illus., 36 figs., 11 tables, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–226–73032–8 (cloth), 0–226–73–33–6 (paper). $59.00. MARTIN STOKES, ed. Ethnicity, identity and music. The musical construction of place. Oxford/Providence, USA: Berg, 1994. x, 212pp. Bibliographies, index. ISBN 0–85496–877–6 (cloth), 1–85973–041–8 (paper). THOMAS TURINO, Moving away from silence: music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the experience of urban migration. University of Chicago Press, 1993. xii, 324 pp, illustrations, musical transcriptions, plates. ISBN 0–226–81700–8. £39.95/£16.75. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual," edited by Jamie Sexton.