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 Bela Bartok 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'an in Indonesian daily life: the public project of musical oratory, Anne K. Rasmussen Music and the global order, Martin Stokes Name index.