Birgit Abels is professor of cultural musicology at the University of Göttingen. She is the author of Sounds of Articulating Identity: Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau, Micronesia and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council project Sound Knowledge. Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World.

• Acknowledgments, Music Worlding in Palau: An Introduction, 1 Latmikaik's Children and Their Music, 2 Vaguely Specific: Resonant Historicity with Chesóls, 3 Listening with the Dancing Body: Ruk and Movement's Incipiency, 4 Rak, Where Is He Now? Presence; Present, 5 Resonance: Co-Becoming with Sound, 6 Of Magic and Meaningfulness : Chelitákl Rechuódel and the Felt-bodily Dimensions of Spiritual Practice, Conclusion, Glossary, Bibliography, Index