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The ICTM Study Group "Music and Minorities" was founded officially in 1997 and is thus one of the youngest Study Groups within the ICTM. The volume "Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities" is a collection of the papers of the second Study Group meeting, which was held in Lublin/Poland, August 25-31, 2002.Chapters are included on music from Badakhshan, the Roma, the Arvanites of Greece, Albania, Poland, Carpathia, the Belorussians of Poland, Slovakia, France, Germany, Turkey, Croatia, the Sorbians, the Masai, the Andes, Venezuela, the Jews of Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Sicily, Azerbaijan, and elsewhere.The volume is also replete with articles of a theoretical orientation, with a special focus on an ethnomusicological theorisation of issues revolving around minority identities and its relation to music-making and perceiving.