Contents: +++ Articles * Abigail Wood & Rachel Harris: Introduction: Sharing Space? Sharing Culture? applied Experiments in Music-Making Across Borders * Anne K. Rasmussen: Taking Our Show on the (Silk) Road: The W&M MEME Tours Morocco and Oman! * Rachel Harris: Applied Experiments in Collaboration Along the Silk Road * Abigail Wood: From Klezmer to Dabkah in Haifa and Weimar: Revisitin Disrupted Histories in the Key of D * Cassandre Balosso-Bardin: #NoBorders. Världens Band: Creating and Performing Music Across Borders * Michael Frishkopf: Forging Transnational Actor Networks through Participatory Action Research: Responsibilitiy to Protect via Musical Rehumanisation in Post-War Liberia * Jasmine Hornabrook: Cultural Engagement, Intercultural Musical Exchange and Dialogue in "Songs of the Saints: Tamil Traditions and NEw Creativities" * Samantha Dieckmann & Jane Davidson: Organised Cultural Encounters: Collaboration and Intercultural Contact in a Lullaby Choir * Saeid Kordmafi:Reviving the Mukhammas and Thaquil: Collaborative Composition on Long Metric Cycles Across the Iranian-Tajik Divide +++ Book Reviews (Eva-Maria Alexandra van Straaten, ed.) * Evan Rapport: Theodore Levin, Saida Daukeyeva & Elmira Köchümkulova (eds.), The Music of Central Asia (2016) * Bennet Zon: Ronaldo Radano & Tejumola Olaniyan (eds.), Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique (2916) * Daniel Schnee: Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen & Anne Danielsen, Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound (2016) * Tom Western: James G. Mansell, The Age of noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity (2017) * Liesbeth Nyssen: Robin P. Harris, Storytelling in Siberia: The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World (2017) * Medar Serrata: Sydney Hutchinson, Tigers of a Different Stripe: Perfoming Gender in Dominican Music (2016) * Bernard Ellorin: Christine Bacareza Balance, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America (2016) +++ Recording Reviews (Rehanna L. Kheshgi, ed.) * Rakae Rehman Jamil: Travelers: Dosti Music Project. Produced by Found Sound Nation. (2017) * Andrea Haris Jordan: Ryan O'Shaughnessy. Back to Square One, Bayview Records (2016) * Jenna Palensky: Groupe Iza. Roumanie. Musique du Maramures. Produced by the Musee d'ethnographie de Geneve (2013) +++ About the Contributors +++ the world of music (new series)