Music for Being

++ Articles* Roger W. H. Savage: Being, Transcendence and the Ontology of Music * Meilu Ho: A True Self Revealed: Song and Play in Pushti Marg Liturgical Service * Helena Simonett: Narrativity and Selfhood in Mayo-Yoreme Mortuary Rituals * Deborah Kapchan: Learning to Listen: The Sound of Sufism in France * Rebecca D. Sager: My Song is My Bond: Haitian Vodou Singing and the Transformation of Being * Jean Kidula: Transcending Time, Empowering Space: (Re)iterating a Logooli/Luyia/Kenyan Song ++ Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.) * N. Ross Crumrine: Zoila S. Mendoza, Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru * Megwen Loveless: Sean Stroud, The Defense of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music: Politics, Culture and the Creation of Musica Popular Brasileira * Shalini Ayyagari: Andrew Alter, Dancing with Devtas: Drums, Power and Possession in the Music of Garhwal, North India * Sally Treloyn: Fiona Richards (ed.), The Soundscapes of Australia: Music, Place and Spirituality * Jeffrey A. Jones: Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival; Shannon Dudley, Music from Behind the Bridge: Steelband Spirit and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago; Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experience and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad ++ Recording Reviews (Dan Bendrups, ed.) * Helen Black: An Extended Review of New Recordings of Music from the Torres Strait: Mabuygiw Awgadhaw Nawul: Traditional and Contemporary Music and Dance of Mabuiag Island, Torres Strait. Badu Nawul: Traditional and Contemporary Music and Dance from Badu Island, Torres Strait. Iama Wakai Tusi/Voices of Iama: Traditional and Contemporary Music and Dance from Iama/Yam Island. Torres Strait Regional Authority TSRA 001-003 (2008) * Elaine Dobson: Play the Saluang Flute, Use Your Fifth Finger: Lyrical Songs from Payakumbuh, West Sumatra. Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Leiden University NUR 055 (2002) ++