Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century / Renâe T .A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr. -- Musical life in Softcity : an I nternet ethnography / Renâe T.A. Lysloff -- A riddle wrapped in a myste ry : transnational music sampling and Enigma's "return to innocence" / Timothy Taylor -- "Ethnic sounds" : the economy and discourse of world music sampling / Paul Thâeberge -- Technology and the production of Isl amic space : the call to prayer in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee -- Plugged in at home : Vietnamese American technoculture in Orange County / Debo rah Wong -- Technology and identity in Colombian popular music : tecno- macondismo in Carlos Vives's approach to Vallenato / Janet Sturman -- T he nature/technology binary opposition dismantled in the music of Madon na and Bjèork / Melissa West and Charity Marsh -- Before the deluge : t he technoculture of song sheet publishing viewed from late nineteenth c entury Galveston / Leslie C. Gay, Jr. -- Stretched from Manhattan's bac k alley to MOMA : a social history of magnetic tape and recording / Mat thew Malsky -- Tails out : social phenomenology and the ethnographic re presentation of technology in music-making / Thomas Porcello -- "There' s not a problem I can't fix, 'cause I can do it in the mix" : on the pe rformative technology of 12-inch vinyl / Kai Fikentscher -- Sounds like the Mall of America : programmed music and the achitectonics of commer cial space / Jonathan Sterne -- Consuming audio : an introduction to tw eak theory / Marc Perlman -- Fairly used : Negativland's U2 and the pre carious practice of acoustic appropriation / David Sanjek -- Afterword : back to basics with the Roland 303 / Andrew Ross.