Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of illustrations

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Author’s note

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-14

Why it all began

pp 15-16

1 - From broadsides to Child ballads: Songs of the British people

pp 17-24

2 - Orientalists from France: Jesuit priests in Beijing, Salvador-Daniel in Algiers

pp 25-34

3 - Going native in Constantinople: Dimitrie Cantemir, the happy hostage

pp 35-38

The birth of ethnomusicology

pp 39-40

4 - The Song of Approach, the Pipes of Friendship: Alice Fletcher and the Omaha Indians

pp 41-46

5 - ‘I am now a true Eskimo’: Franz Boas and first principles

pp 47-54

6 - Voice of Armenia: The tragedy of Komitas

pp 55-62

7 - Britain’s folk-song revivals, and the contentious Cecil Sharp

pp 63-78

8 - ‘I in seventh heaven – Perks’: The ineffable Percy Grainger

pp 79-86

Carrying the torch: Collectors in Northern and Eastern Europe

pp 87-90

9 - ‘And what does the gentleman want’: Béla Bartók as song detective

pp 91-106

10 - Girdling the globe: The empire of the Lomaxes

pp 107-132

11 - ‘I am a white-skinned Aranda man’: Theodor Strehlow’s divided self

pp 133-142

12 - The stirring of a thousand bells: Jaap Kunst, Colin McPhee, and gamelan

pp 143-156

13 - Hot mint tea and a few pipes of kif: Paul Bowles in Morocco

pp 157-164

14 - A voice for Greece: Domna Samiou’s crusade

pp 165-168

15 - Things that are made to cry: John Blacking and the Venda

pp 169-172

16 - Record companies as collectors: From Folkways to Muziekpublique

pp 173-182

Musical snapshots: The importance of sound archives

pp 183-186

17 - Magic in two strings: Central Asia awakes

pp 187-204

18 - Red badge of courage: Musicians in Afghanistan

pp 205-212

19 - Out of the womb of Russia: Riches awaiting rediscovery

pp 213-220