Volume Foreword -- Chapter One Introduction: Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music (Eduardo De La Fuente and Peter Murphy) -- Chapter Two Modern Hermeneutics and the Presentation of Opera (Agnes Heller) -- Chapter Three Algo-Rhythm and Mello-dy: A Consideration of the Relationship Between Technology and the Embodied Performance of Music (Daniel Black) -- Chapter Four Bob Dylan Ain't Talking: One Man's Vast Comic Adventure in American Music, Dramaturgy, and Mysticism (Peter Murphy) -- Chapter Five Music and Religion: Reflections on Cultural Secularization (David Roberts) -- Chapter Six Prophet and Priest, Ascetic and Mystic: Towards a Cultural Sociology of the Twentieth Century Composer (Eduardo De La Fuente) -- Chapter Seven Collective Effervescence, Numinous Experience or Proto-Religious Phenomena? Moshing with Durkheim, Schleiermacher and Otto (Mark Jennings) -- Chapter Eight Music as a Space of Possibilities (John Rundell) -- Chapter Nine Some Suggestions for a Phenomenology of Rhythm (Stuart Grant) -- Chapter Ten The Paradox of "Do-it-Yourself" in Unpopular Music (Joseph Borlagdan) -- Chapter Eleven Musical Culturespeak and Cosmopolitan Identities in Australian Multiculturalism (Graeme Smith) -- Chapter Twelve The Piano and Cultural Modernity in East Asia (Alison Tokita) -- Chapter Thirteen Popular Music, Cultural Memory and Everyday Aesthetics (Andy Bennett) -- Chapter Fourteen Everything is Dirt: Reevaluating the Place of Cultural Status in Producing Aesthetic Attachment (Claudio E. Benzecry) -- Chapter Fifteen Musical Listening and Boundary-Work (Michael Walsh) -- List of Contributors -- Index.