This volume in honour of Gerhard Kubik comprises a broad range of contributions from among his worldwide circle of friends and admirers. Its contents have been loosely assorted into four sections, reflecting different facets of Kubik's widely varied interests: African Music Studies, Extensions of African Cultures in the Americas, Towards Intercultural Understanding, and Miscellaneous. Gerhard Kubik, born in 1934 in Vienna, has done - and is still doing - extensive field work in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South America for 35 years. The impressive results of his research have highly influenced the panorama of African musicology and cultural anthropology.

The Contributors: Moya Aliya Malamusi, Chileka; Maurice Djenda, Nola; Artur Simon, Berlin; Peter R. Cooke, Edinburgh; Manfred Kremser, Vienna; August Schmidhofer, Wien; Veit Erlmann, Berlin; Wolfgang Bender, Mainz; George T. Nurse, London; Ruth M. Stone, Bloomington; Andrew Tracey, Grahamstown; Oskár Elschek, Bratislava; Karl R. Wernhardt, Wien; David Evans, Memphis; Richard Graham, Memphis; Franz Födermayr, Wien; Kazadi wa Mukuna, Kent; Kilza Setti, São Paulo; Max Peter Baumann, Berlin; Ulrich Wegner, Berlin; Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Berlin; Uwe Seifert, Fabian Olk & Albrecht Schneider, Hamburg; Alfons Michael Dauer, Graz; Giorgio Adamo, Rome; Walter Hirschberg, Wien; Dietrich Schüller, Wien; Michael Weber, Wien; Guilherme dos Santos Barboza, São Paulo