Introduction / A.L. White
The social character of music: Performance as ritual / C. Small. The social interpretation of modern jazz / A. Lewis. Towards a sociology of musical styles / J. Shepherd
Words and music: Why do songs have words? / S. Frith. The price you pay : an introduction to the life and songs of Laurence Price / D. Harker
Convention and constraint in working life: Popular music and the law
who owns the song? / A.L. White. A professional jazz group / A.L. White. Convention and constraint among British semi-professional jazz musicians / H. Christian
Recording music: Technology in the art of recording / S. Struthers. Coda: making sense of the musical world / J. Blacking.
