Philosophical and cultural theories of music / Eduardo De La Fuente and Peter Murphy -- Modern hermeneutics and the presentation of opera / Agnes Heller -- Algo-Rhythm and Mello-dy : a consideration of the relationship between technology and the embodied performance of music / Daniel Black -- Bob Dylan ain't talking : one man's vast comic adventre in American music, dramaturgy, and mysticism / Peter Murphy -- Music and religion : reflections on cultural secularization / David Roberts -- Prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic : towards a cultural sociology of the twentieth century composer / Eduardo De La Fuente -- Collective effervescence, numinous experience or proto-religious phenomena? Moshing with Durkheim, Schleiermacher and Otto / Mark Jennings -- Music as a space of possibilities / John Rundell -- Some suggestions for a phenomenology of Rhythm / Stuart Grant -- The paradox of "do-it-yourself" in unpopular music / Joseph Borlagdan -- Musical culturespeak and cosmopolitan identities in Australian multiculturalism / Graeme Smith -- The piano and cultural modernity in East Asia / Alison Tokita -- Popular music, cultural memory and everyday aesthetics / Andy Bennett -- Everything is dirt : reevaluating the place of cultural status in producing aesthetic attachment / Claudio E. Benzecry -- Musical listening and boundary-work / Michael Walsh