Introduction : Ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century / René T.A. Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, Jr. -- Musical life in Softcity : an Internet ethnography / René T.A. Lysloff -- A riddle wrapped in a mystery : transnational music sampling and Enigma's "return to innocence" / Timothy D. Taylor -- "Ethnic sounds" : the economy and discourse of world music sampling / Paul Théberge -- Technology and the production of Islamic space : the call to prayer in Singapore / Tong Soon Lee -- Plugged in at home : Vietnamese American technoculture in Orange County / Deborah Wong -- Technology and identity in Colombian popular music : tecno-macondismo in Carlos Vives's approach to Vallenato / Janet L. Sturman -- The nature/technology binary opposition dismantled in the music of Madonna and Björk / Charity Marsh and Melissa West -- Before the deluge : the technoculture of song sheet publishing viewed from late-nineteenth-century Galveston / Leslie G. Gay, Jr. -- Stretched from Manhattan's back alley to MOMA : a social history of magnetic tape and recording / Matthew Malsky -- Tails out : social phenomenology and the ethnographic representation of technology in music making / Thomas G. Porcello -- "There's not a problem I can't fix, 'cause I can do it in the mix" : on the performative technology of 12-inch vinyl / Kai Fikentscher -- Sounds like the Mall of America : programmed music and the architectonics of commercial space / Jonathan Sterne -- Consuming audio : an introduction to tweak theory / Marc Perlman -- Fairly used : Negativland's U2 and the precarious practice of acoustic appropriation / David Sanjek -- Afterword : back to basics with the Roland 303 / Andrew Ross.