Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-311) and index.

Casting shadows: Fieldwork is dead! Long live fieldwork! : Introduct ion / Timothy J. Cooley and Gregory Barz -- Knowing fieldwork / Jeff To dd Titon -- Toward a mediation of field methods and field experience in ethnomusicology / Timothy Rice -- Phenomenology and the ethnography of popular music: ethnomusicology at the juncture of cultural studies and folklore / Harris M. Berger -- Moving: from performance to performativ e ethnography and back again / Deborah Wong -- Virtual fieldwork: three case studies / Timothy J. Cooley, Katharine Meizel, and Nasir Syed -- Fieldwork at home: European and Asian perspectives / Jonathan P.J. Stoc k and Chou Chiener -- Working with the masters / James Kippen -- The et hnomusicologist, ethnographic method, and the transmission of tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Shadows in the classroom: encountering the S yrian Jewish research project twenty years later / Judah Cohen -- What' s the difference? Reflections on gender and research in Village India / Carol Babiracki -- (Un)doing fieldwork: sharing songs, sharing lives / Michelle Kisliuk -- Confronting the field(note) in and out of the fiel d: music, voices, texts, and experiences in dialogue / Gregory Barz -- The challenges of human relations in ethnographic inquiry: examples fro m Arctic and Subarctic fieldwork / Nicole Beaudry -- Returning to the e thomusicological past / Philip V. Bohlman -- Theories forged in the cru cible of action: the joys, dangers, and potentials of advocacy and fiel dwork / Anthony Seeger.