Introduction; Part I. Perspectives: 1. The idea of folk music Ross Cole; 2. Observing and collecting Jeff Todd Titon; 3. Folk and the public sphere Timothy Hampton; 4. Towards a critical folk music studies Brahma Prakash; 5. Artist voice: Fiddler on the Hoof-Reminiscences of an ethnographer Yale Strom; Part II. Elements: 6.

Complementary modalities in Celtic music Joshua Dickson; 7. Thinking about the words to folks' songs Dianne Dugaw; 8. Folk instruments Maeve Carey-Kozlark; 9. Folk dance in a global frame Theresa Jill Buckland; 10. Artist voice: Jon Boden An introduction to introductions; Part III. Imaginaries: 11. Folk music and nationalism Katharine Ellis; 12. Colonialist hierarchies Erin Johnson Williams; 13.

Reviving the folk Britta Sweers; 14. Music, migration, and belonging Helen Phelan (with Hala Jaber, John Nutekpor, and Ewa Zak-Dyndal); 15. Artist voice: mythopoeic singing or, the mythopoeic singer Angeline Morrison; Part IV. Identities: 16. Reclaiming Black folk music Katrina Thompson Moore; 17. Women in the margins Elizabeth Bennett; 18. No neutrals here: folk, class, labour Mark Steven; 19. Protest song and the popular voice Oskar Cox Jensen; 20.

Artist voice: multiple identities Peggy Seeger; Further Reading; Resources; Index.