Introduction : sailing the Mediterranean mosaics / Goffredo Plastino -- Paint it black, cat : rock, pop, and the Mediterranean / Franco Fabbri -- Seeking connections through a sea : Mediterranean sounds in Spanish folk and popular music / Silva Martińez -- Moroccan world beat through the media / Antonio Baldassarre -- Pop-raï : from a "local" tradition to globalization / Gabriele Marranci -- "New sounds, old tunes" : Tunisian media stars reintrepret the ma'luf / Ruth Davis -- Some meanings of the Spanish tinge in contemporary Egyptian music / Michael Frishkopf -- Yam tikhoniyut : transformations of Mediterraneanisms in Israeli music / Edwin Seroussi -- Crossing the boundaries : the Akdeniz scene and Mediterraneanness / Yetkin Özer -- Between East and West : contemporary grooves in Greek popular music (c. 1990-2000) / Kevin Dawe -- Klapa singing and ča-val : the Mediterranean dimension of popular music in Croatia / Joška Ćaleta -- Inventing ethnic music : Fabrizio De André's Creuza de mä and the creation of Musica mediterranea in Italy / Goffredo Plastino -- Sacred popular music of the Mediterranean and the journey to Jerusalem / Philip v. Bohlman.