| Ricardo D. Trimillos | From the Editor | 1-2 | 
          
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            | Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson | Music in Ritual and Ritual in Music: A Virtual Viewer's Perceptions about Liminality, Functionality, and Mediatization in the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games | 3-18 | 
          
            | Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu | Performativity of Difference: Mapping Public Soundscapes and Performing Nostalgia among Burmese Chinese in Central Rangoon | 19-55 | 
          
            | Maria Mendoça | Gamelan Performance outside Indonesia "Setting Sail": Babar Layar and Notions of Bi-musicality" | 56-87 | 
          
            | Kwok-Wai Ng | In Search of the Historical Development of Double-reed Pipe Melodies in Japanese Tōgaku: Early Hypotheses and New Perspectives | 88-111 | 
          
          
            | Joseph S. C. Lam | Music and Masculinities in Late Ming China | 112-134 | 
          
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            | Benjamin Brinner | Sarah Weiss. Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of Wayang in Central Java. | 135-139 | 
          
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            | Nathan Light | Turkestan chinois. Le Muqam des Dolan. [Chinese Turkestan. The Muqam of the Dolan] Musique des Ouïgours du désert de Taklamakan [Music of the Uyghurs of Taklamakan Desert]
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            | J. Lawrence Witzleben | Chine: "Le pêcheur et le bûcheron": Le qin, cithare des lettrés [China: "The Fisherman and the Woodcutter": The Qin, Zither of the Literati] | 144-146 | 
          
            | Mark Kligman | A Song of Dawn: the Jerusalem Sephardi Baqqashot at the Har Tzyion Synagogue | 146-149 | 
          
          
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            |  | About 
              the Contributors | 150-151 | 
          
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