Introduction Beate Kutschke; 1. Expressive revolutions: '1968' and music in The Netherlands Robert Adlington; 2. Music as plea for political action: the presence of musicians in Italian protest movements around 1968 Gianmario Borio; 3. 'This is my country': American popular music and political engagement in '1968' Sarah Hill; 4. Spontaneity and Black consciousness: South Africans imagining musical and political freedom in 1960s Europe Carol Muller; 5. Vietnamese popular song in '1968': war, protest and sentimentalism Barley Norton; 6. Music and protest in Japan: the rise of underground folk song in '1968' Tôru Mitsui; 7. 'There is no revolution without song': 'new song' in Latin America Jan Fairley; 8. 'The power of music': antiauthoritarian music movements in Scandinavia in '1968' Alf Björnberg; 9. British rock: the short '1968', and the long Allan Moore; 10. '1968' and the experimental revolution in Britain Virginia Anderson; 11. Antiauthoritarian revolt by musical means on both sides of the Berlin Wall Beate Kutschke; 12. '1968' - the emergence of a protest culture in the popular music of the Eastern Bloc? Rüdiger Ritter; 13. Gendering '1968': womanhood in model works of the People's Republic of China and movie musicals of Hong Kong Hon-Lun Yang; 14. A revolution in sheep's wool stockings: early music and '1968' Kailan Rubinoff; 15. Music and May 1968 in France: practices, roles, representations Eric Drott.