Preface: Traditional Musics in the Modern World; Bo-Wah Leung -- Part I: Transmission of Traditional Music in Different Contexts -- Reflections of Traditional African American Music in the Modern World; Marvelene C. Moore -- The Innovative Traditional Learning: Interaction and Emotion among Young Roma Flamenco Musicians in Spain; Amalia Casas-Mas -- Cultural Policy and Transmission of the Tradition in Japan; Emily Akuno -- "Rhythms around the World": The Transmission and Learning of Traditional Musics in Primary and Secondary Education; Melissa Bremmer and Adri Schreuder -- Transmission of Song-Making in Interior Athabascan Tradition, Alaska; Siri Tuttle and Håkan Lundstrom -- Part II: Authenticiy and Evolution of Traditional Musics -- Traditional Music in Music Education - the Sound of (R)evolution? Anna Houmann -- Meanings of Tradition in Swedish Folk Music Education; Markus Tullberg -- Mother, Lullabies, and Village Home: Contemporary Uyghur Folk Singing and Minority Modernity in Chinese Central Asia; Chuen-Fung Wong -- Customization of Performance: Cantonese Operatic Song Groups at Temple Street of Hong Kong in 1990s; Wing-Cheong Lam -- Part III: Challenges for Sustainability -- "Welcome to Country" and the Role of Traditional Music in Modern Indigenous Culture in Australia; Gabriel Solis -- Towards a sustainable development of traditional indigenous music: The case of Buganda; Benonn Kigozi -- Ritual and Non-ritual Daoist Music at Fung Ying Seen Koon: Their Role, Transmission, Sustainability and Challenges in Hong Kong; Allison So -- Blended Modes of Music Learning: Shaping Intermusicality in Kathmandu; Jaco van den Dool -- Coda: Current trends and future development; Bo-Wah Leung.