Introduction : voice, identities, and reflexive globalization in contemporary music practices / Presence and ethicity of the voice / The rediscovery of presence : intercultural passages through vocal spaces between speech and song / Imagining the other's voice : on composing across vocal traditions / Voice, culture, and ethnicity in contemporary Chinese compositions / Narrative, voice, and reality in the operas by Hosokawa Toshio and Mochizuki Misato / Reconsidering traditional vocal practices in contemporary Korean music / Escaped from paradise? : construction of identity and elements of ritual in vocal works by Helmut Lachenmann and Giacinto Scelsi / The notation and use of the voice in non-semantic contexts : phonetic organization in the vocal music of Dieter Schnebel, Brian Ferneyhough, and Georges Aperghis / A "digital opera" at the boundaries of transnationalism : human and synthesized voices in Zuni Icosahedron's The memory palace of Matteo Ricci / "Voices of the mainstream" : Red songs and revolutionary identities in the People's Republic of China / Asagi's voice : learning how to desire with Japanese visual-kei / Voicing body, voicing Seoul : vocalization, body, and ethnicity in Korean popular music / Afterword : giving voice to difference