Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.

Introduction / Ian Russell and Catherine Ingham -- Taking a part: song sequences and sound sentiments / Anthony Seeger -- Sharing music in cross-cultural collaborations: participation, interaction, and innovation / Griselda Sanderson -- Understanding musical participation: 'listening' participants and big song singers in Kam villages, southwestern China / Catherine Ingham -- Metaphors, mood, medium, and modelling: indigenous music workshops and citizenship / Beverley Diamond -- On being a collective: the politics of participation in an Austrian alternative wind band / Malik sharif -- Negotiating participation at an English folk singing session / Fay Hield -- Preserving the village: social versus musical criteria for successful participation in a Japanese festival / Kirk King -- The impact of human relations on Japanese koto music performance: negotiation of rank in the spotlight / Liv Lande -- Together in sang: the embodied 'ballad experience' as singularly plural / Mairi McFadyen -- 'The music spirits come to everybody while we play together': performing Mohori music in Washington DC / Joanna Pecore -- Strengthening identity through community singing: praise nights in North-East Scotland's Deep Sea Missions / Frances Wilkins -- foreigners in the session: an examination of participation and authenticity at the Costello's Irish music session / Pamela Cotter -- Musicking, participating, and identifying selves through musical communities of practice: a cosmopolitan band in Greece / Evanthia Patsiaoura -- Follow the band: the role and function of community brass bands in the Scottish Borders common ridings / Gillian French -- Three types of engagement with place through acousmatic listening and composition / Suk-Jun Kim, Pete Stollery, Ross Whyte -- Introduction: the conditions of music-making: between cultural policy, economics, and aesthetics / Alf Arvidsson, Susanne Holst, Dan Lundberg, Marika Nordström, Ingrid Åkesson -- Describing your music to the Arts Council: interacting with a grant system / Dan Lundberg -- Folk and world music festivals as interactive and participatory performance / Susanne Holst -- Authenticity, musicians, and journalism in the field of popular music: an analysis of interviews with musicians published in the music magazine Sonic / Marika Nordström -- Some characteristics of contemporary art music composition in Sweden / Alf Arvidsson -- Participatory and multi-directional music-making: small-scale singing events as creators of a counter-aesthetic? / Ingrid Åkesson