Frontmatter -- PART ONE: MUSIC AND DANCE IN SOCIETY: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES -- The Study of Man as Music-Maker / Blacking, John -- Toward a Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Dance and Some Correlate Considerations / Hanna, Judith Lynne -- Culture Change: Functional and Dysfunctional Expressions of Dance, a Form of Affective Culture / Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. -- PART TWO: CASE STUDIES IN DANCE -- Totemic Dances of Armenia / Petrosian, E. Kh. -- Kolo na Kolu: The Round upon Round in Yugoslavia / Mladenovic, Olivera -- The Study of Folk Dancing in the Soviet Union: Its State and Tasks / Zhornitskaia, M. Ia. -- PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES OF THE PERFORMING ARTS -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Song Styles: An Ordinal Cross-Cultural Classification / Seaton, S. Lee / Watson, Karen Ann -- Rice-Planting Music of Chindo (Korea) and the Chügoku Region (Japan) / Uchida, Ruriko -- The Status of Women in the Performing Arts of India and Iberia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives from Historical Accounts and Field Reports / Wade, Bonnie C. / Pescatello, Ann M. -- PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES IN MUSIC AND FOLKLORE FROM ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE -- The Functions of Folk Songs in Vietnam / Nha-Trang, Cong-Huyen-Ton-Nu -- The Aboriginal Music of Taiwan / Himeno, Midori D. -- Contemporary Music of the Maclay Coast / Putilov, B. N. -- Rituals and Songs of Weather in Georgian Poetic Folklore / Sikharulidze, Ksenia -- On the Hungarian Variants of South Slavic Folk Songs and Tales / Andjelic, Madeleine V. -- The Rumanian Folklore Calendar and Its Age Categories / Comisel, Emilia -- PART FIVE: ASPECTS OF THE MUSICAL PROCESS -- The Role of Songs for Children in the Formation of Musical Perception / Suliteanu, Ghizela -- Pattern Perception and Recognition in African Music / Kubik, Gerhard -- Tactility as an Aesthetic Consideration in African Music / Kauffinan, Robert -- Stress Behavior in Musicolinguistics / Chandola, Anoop C. -- PART SIX: MUSIC AND DANCE IN AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD -- Igeri Ututu: An Igbo Folk Requiem Music Dance Ritual / Okoreaffia, C. O. -- Ngoma Music Among the Zulu / Thamsanqa Sithole, Elkin -- The Possibility of Objective Rhythmic Evidence for African Influence in Afro-American Music / Pantaleoni, Hewitt -- Music and Dance as Expressions of Religious Worship in Jamaica / Moore, Joseph G. -- Space Rock: Music and Dance of the Electronic Era / Kurath, Gertrude P. -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects