Introduction : singing each to each / Inna Naroditskaya and Linda Phyllis Austern -- Sirens in antiquity and the middle ages / Leofranc Holford-Strevens -- "Teach me to heare mermaides singing" : embodiments of (acoustic) pleasure and danger in the modern West / Linda Phyllis Austern -- Devils, daydreams, and desire : siren traditions and musical creation in the Central-Southern Andes / Henry Stobart -- "Sweet aluring harmony" : heavenly and earthly sirens in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary and visual culture / Elena Laura Calogero -- The sirens, the epicurean boat, and the poetry of praise / Stephen M. Buhler -- "Longindyingcall" : of music, modernity, and the sirens / Lawrence Kramer -- Russian rusalkas and nationalism : water, power, and women / Inna Naroditskaya -- Rheinsirenen : Loreley and other Rhine maidens / Annegret Fauser -- The mermaid of the Meyhane : the legend of a Greek singer in a Turkish tavern / John Morgan O'Connell -- Siren serenades : music for Mami Wata and other water spirits in Africa / Henry John Drewal with Charles Gore and Michelle Kisliuk -- The navel, the corporate, the contradictory : pop sirens at the twenty-first century / Thomasin LaMay and Robin Armstrong -- The cocktail siren in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Jeongwon Joe.