Introduction
1. The Music Road: an expedition across time and space, Reinhard Strohm
Keynote
2. The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective, Martin Stokes
Alexandrian Tracks
3. Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus, Gabriela Currie
4. Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra, Ciro Lo Muzio
5. Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries), Donatella Restani
Intercultural Islam
6. Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism, Andrew Hicks
7. Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries, Lisa Nielson
8. Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.), Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek
9. Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide, Owen Wright
10. Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey, Kevin Dawe
Indian Encounters
11. 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadere: The Indian dance as musical nexus, Margaret Walker
12. Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body', Nalini Ghuman
Hellas between West and East
13. The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century, Katy Romanou
14. A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century), Walter Puchner
15. Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands, Kostas Kardamis
16. European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East, Avra Xepapadakou
A Gypsy Epilogue
17. From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody', Anna G. Piotrowska
General bibliography
Index