Festschrift in honour of Beverley Diamond; includes essays by ethnomusicologists and music scholars. Includes: Appendix : Beverley Diamond : publications and lectures, pages 307-320.

Beverley Diamond: life stories,academic directions and teaching, research and scholarly activity / Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith -- Conversations with Clifford Crawley / Beverley Diamond -- Ethnomusicology critiques itself: comments on the history of a tradition / Bruno Nettl -- Is fieldwork still necessary? / Ellen Koskoff -- Toward a history of ethnomusicology's North Americanist agenda / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Encountering oral performance as total musical fact / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- You also work as a church organist? Whatever for? / Charlotte J. Frisbie -- The politics of organology and the Nova Scotia banjo: an essay in honour of Beverley Diamond / Neil V. Rosenberg -- Strategies of survival: traditional music, politics, and music education among two minorities of Finland / Pirkko Moisala -- Father of romance, vagabond of glory: two Canadian composers as stage heroes / John Beckwith -- Funk and James Brown: re-Africanization, the interlocked groove, and the articulation of community / Rob Bowman -- On the one: Parliament/Funkadelic, the mothership, and transformation / Rob Bowman -- Politics through pleasure: party music in Trinidad / Jocelyne Guilbault -- A festschrift for the twenty-first century: student voices / Kip Pegley and Virginia Caputo -- Appendix: Beverley Diamond: publications and lectures.