Articles: * Victor A. Grauer: Echoes of Our Forgotten Ancestors * Bruno Nettl: Response to Victor Grauer: On the Concept of Evolution in the History of Ethnomusicology * Jonathan P.J. Stock: Clues from Our Present Peers?: A Response to Victor Grauer * Peter Cooke: Response to "Echoes of Our Forgotten Ancestors" * Victor Grauer: "Echoes of Our Forgotten Ancestors"; Author's Reply ***Miscellanea: * Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph & Martin Watt: Musical Symbiosis in Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph's Lifecycle * Marin Marian-Balasa: Ghizela/Gisela Suiteanu: An Indicative Bio-Bibliography ***Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.) * Karen A. Peters: Donna A. Buchanann, Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition* Giovanni Giuriati:Deborah Wong, Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Performance * Carol Fisher Mathieson: Liz Garnett, The British Barbershopper: A Study in Socio-Musical Values * Kim Kattari: Cheryl L. Keyes, Rap Music and Street Consciousness; Joseph G. Schloss, Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop * Tess J. Popper: Dalia Cohen & Ruth Katz, Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam tradition in Practice * William P. Malm: Henry Johnson, The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan * Mark Slobin: Anna Shternshis, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 * Mariano Munoz-Hidalgo: Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Performing Folklore: Ranchos Folcloricos from Lisbon to Newark ***Recording Reviews (Kevin Dawe, ed.) * John Bailyr: Homayun Sakhi: The Art of the Afghan Rubab, Smithsonian Folkways; Khaled Arman: Rubab Raga, Arion, and Kabul Workshop Trigana, Tinder Records * Ruth Hellier-Tinoco: El ave de mi sonar: Los Camperos de Valles - Mexican Sones Huastecos, Smithsonian Folkways and Mexique/Mexico: Sones Huastecos - Los Caimanes de Tampico, Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire ***About the Contributors