General Editor's Preface -- Table of contents -- Introduction by John Blacking -- The Study of Man as Music-Maker -- Toward a Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Dance and Some Correlate Considerations -- Culture Change: Functional and Dysfunctional Expressions of Dance, a Form of Affective Culture -- Totemic Dances of Armenia -- Kolona Kolu: The Round upon Round in Yugoslavia -- The Study of Folk Dancing in the Soviet Union: Its State and Tasks -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Song Styles: An Ordinal Cross-Cultural Classification -- Rice-Planting Music of Chindo (Korea) and the Chügoku Region (Japan) -- The Status of Women in the Performing Arts of India and Iberia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Historical Accounts and Field Reports -- The Functions of Folk Songs in Vietnam -- The Aboriginal Music of Taiwan -- Contemporary Music of the Maclay Coast -- Rituals and Songs of Weather in Georgian Poetic Folklore -- On the Hungarian Variants of South Slavic Folk Songs and Tales -- The Rumanian Folklore Calendar and Its Age Categories -- The Role of Songs for Children in the Formation of Musical Perception -- Pattern Perception and Recognition in African Music -- Tactility as an Aesthetic Consideration in African Music -- Stress Behavior in Musicolinguistics -- Igeri Ututu: An Igbo Folk Requiem Music Dance Ritual -- Ngoma Music Among the Zulu -- The Possibility of Objective Rhythmic Evidence for African Influence in Afro-American Music -- Music and Dance as Expressions of Religious Worship in Jamaica -- Space Rock: Music and Dance of the Electronic Era -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.