Contents The 1890s DAVE LAING A voice without a face: popular music and the phonograph in the 1890s PAUL OLIVER That certain feeling: blues and jazz. . . in 1890? THOMAS FIEHRER From quadrille to stomp: the Creole origins of jazz TRACY C. DAVIS The moral sense of the majorities: indecency and vigilance in Late-Victorian music halls GEORGE H. LEWIS Storm blowing from paradise: social protest and oppositional ideology in popular Hawaiian music THOMAS PORCELLO The ethics of digital audio-sampling: engineers’ discourse Middle Eight Essay reviews LINE GRENIER Vibrations: musiques, médias, société CHARLES A. PERRONE Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An introduction Survey, by Peter Manuel Reviews DAVID HORN The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture, by Ted Gioia iv Contents SIMON FRITH American Popular Music, Volume 1, The Nineteenth Century and Tin Pan Alley. Volume 2, The Age of Rock, edited by Timothy E. Scheurer; Popular Music Research: An Anthology from NORDICOM-Sweden, edited by Keith Roe and Ulla Carlsson MARGARET BULLEN Music and Media in Local Life: Music Practice in a Newar Neighbourhood in Nepal, by Ingemar Grandin MARY ELLISON The Blackwell Guide to Blues Records, edited by Paul Oliver; ‘Looking Up at Down’: The Emergence of Blues Culture, by William Barlow JAN FAIRLEY Remembering — John Blacking CHRISTOPHER BALLANTINE Concert and Dance: the foundations of black jazz in South Africa between the twenties and the early forties CHARLES HAMM ‘The constant companion of man’: Separate Development, Radio Bantu and music MELVEEN JACKSON Popular Indian South African music: division in diversity PETER MANUEL The cassette industry and popular music in North India MARTIN PARKER Reading the charts —- making sense with the hit parade John Blacking — Reminiscences Essay reviews Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song, by JAN FAIRLEY Charles A. Perrone; Samba, by Alma Guillermoprieto; The Mambo Kings play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos Studying Popular Music, by Richard SUSAN MCCLARY Middleton The Swing Era: the Development of Jazz, CHRIS CLARK 1930-1945, by Gunther Schuller Contents Reviews GREG GAUT Rock Around the Bloc: a History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, by Timothy W. Ryback WILL STRAW Blissed Out: the Raptures of Rock, by Simon Reynolds; The End-of-the-Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000, by Steve Redhead JOHN CORNER Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop, by Charles Shaar Murray REEBEE GAROFALO World Music, Politics and Social Change: Papers from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, edited by Simon Frith MITSUI Toru Introduction NAKAMURA Toyo Early pop song writers and their backgrounds OKADA Maki Musical characteristics of Enka KITAGAWA Junko Some aspects of Japanese popular music K1iMuURA Atsuko Japanese corporations and popular music KAWABATA Shigeru The Japanese record industry Middle Eight Reviews Leonard Cohen, Prophet of the Heart, by DAVE HARKER Loranne S. Dorman and Clive L. Rawlins Time Passages: Collective Memory and American JOHN STREET Popular Culture, by George Lipsitz Benny Goodman and the Swing Era, by James CHRIS CLARK Lincoln Collier Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of DAVID BUCKLEY Sound, by Eric Tamm Booklist