Voice, identities and reflexive globalization in contemporary music practices / Christian Utz and Frederick Lau -- Presence and ethicity of the voice / Dieter Mersch -- The rediscovery of presence: intercultural passages through vocal spaces between speech and song / Christian Utz -- Imagining the other's voice: on composing across vocla traditions / Sandeep Bhagwati -- Voice, culture and ethnicity in contemporary Chinese composistions / Frederick Lau -- Narrative, voice and reality in the opperas by Hosokawa Toshio and Mochizuki Misato / Fuyuko Fukunaka -- reconsidering traditional vocal practices in contemporary Korean music / Heekyung Lee -- Escaped from paradise? construction of identity and elements of ritual in vocal works by Helmut Lachenmann and Giacinto Scelsi / Jörn Peter Hiekel -- The notation and use of the voice in non-semantic contexts: phonetic organization in the vocal music of Dieter Schnebel, Brian Ferneyhough and Georges Aperghis / Erin Gee -- A "Digital opera" at the boundaries of transnationalism: Human and synthesized voices in Zuni Icosahedron's The memory palace of Matteo Ricci / Samson Young -- "Voices of the mainstream": red sons and revolutionary identities in the People's Republic of China / Andreas Steen -- Asagi's vocie: learnng how to desire with Japanese Visual-kei / Oliver Seibt -- Voiceing body, voicing Seoul: vocalization, body, and ethnicity in Korean popular music / Michael Fuhr -- Afterword: giving voice to difference / Nicholas Cook

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