Setting the stage. First encounters -- Arab musicians in Israel and the West Bank -- Israeli musical life -- Musicians, bands, networks. Alei Hazayit -- Bustan Abraham -- Two bands, two interactive musical networks -- Yair Dalal -- A larger network : the ethnic music scene in Israel -- New forms of musical expression. Musical mixtures : fusion of styles and styles of fusion -- Bustan Abraham's approaches to composition and improvisation -- Roots and routes. Representations of place and time -- Roots in the past, routes to the future