Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why not just copulate? Reflections on the aesthetic trappings of animal and human courtship displays / Björn Merker -- Song complexity in a species of songbird, the Bengalese finch: A tool for seduction or a byproduct of domestication? / Kazuo Okanoya and Miki Takahasi -- Musical seducers and music as seduction / Rokus de Groot -- The marks of sensual person: music and dance performance in the Marquesas Islands, French Polyneria / Jane Freeman Moulin -- Sexual education through singing and dancing in S.E. Cameroon / Susanne Fürniss -- Courtship riuals and the native American flute / Paula Conlon -- Love songs and temple festivals in northwest China: musical laughter in the face of adversity / Frank Kouwenhoven -- Al Bic Bac and the marriage cusotoms of the dong / Han Mei -- There she was: Love, courtship, and marriage in performances by gay and lesbian choruses / Pamela Moro -- Empowerment: the art of seduction in adult entertainment exotic dance / Judith Lynne Hanna -- 'Col el guleindón - atocar es xoriguer': subtle and unsubtle seduction and courtship in Luso-Hispanic and Sephardic song / Judith R Cohen -- On the dancers or Devadasis: Jacob Haafner's account of the Eighteenth-Century Indian temple dancers / Joep Bor -- Between seduction and redemption - The European perception of India's temple dancers in travel accounts and stage productions from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century / Tiziana Leucci -- Śr̥iṅgārānta: eros fragmented / Saskia Kersenboom -- Wounded with the arrow of her eyelashes: seduction and sensuality in North Indian dance / Margaret Walker -- The language of seduction in courtesan performance / Lalita du Perron -- Eros and shame in North Indian art music / Nicolas Magriel

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