1) The contingencies and complexity of social engagement and activism as they constitute a turn toward ethics is the central focus
2) Readers are stimulated to trace ethical themes as they resonate across multiple chapters, emerging and conflicting in widely contrasting social situations,
3) Presents the first substantial body of ideas about where ethnomusicology currently stands as a discipline in relation to ethical concerns, how it got there, and, most importantly, where it needs to go in the years directly ahead.