This book features lively speeches, engaging workshop presentations on a variety of topics (including making ethnic instruments), and extensive reviews of vocal and instrumental multicultural music literature from the 2006 and 2008 National Symposia on Multicultural Music.

Marvelene C. Moore is professor of music education at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the founder and chair of the National Symposium on Multicultural Music. Philip Ewell is assistant professor of music theory at Hunter College, CUNY.