The relationships between Indigenous peoples, recording technology and techniques, the recording industry and researchers have been evolving for over a century, as have concerns for key issues such as intellectual property, copyright, commercialisation and cultural protocols. As technology and techniques have changed so too has the nature of the relationships, although there are also continuities. This issue of the world of music focuses on some of those changes and continuities. The articles explore, describe and analyse examples of these curcent relationships as Indigenous peoples in Australia, Easter Island, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Northern Europe, North America and Solomon Islands engage with-and in some instances manipulate and subvert-recording technology and techniques and the recording industry. Also surveyed are the roles of researchers involved in collaborative projects.