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Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures. By Sujatha Fernandes. Duke University Press, 2006. 218 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3859-8 - Sounding Salsa, Performing Latin Music in New York City. By Christopher Washburne. Temple University Press, 2008, 254 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-315-4 - From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz. By Raúl Fernandez. University of California Press. 199 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24707-9 - Volume 28 Issue 2

Conference Report. Alma corazón y vida: La canción popular y sus discursos analíticos, VIII Congreso IASPM –AL (the 8th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music [IASPM] Latin America), 18–22 June 2008, Lima, Perú - Volume 28 Issue 2

Those of us who found we were sitting on or next to an empty cinema type numbered seat with black gaffer tape covering its number gathered at the front of the room and then, after a ten-minute break, entered into a windowless studio where two rows of seats were arranged in a semi-circle. In front of the seats were three high microphones, a keyboard, and a table with an Apple Mac laptop on it (the iconic corporate apple sign was the only thing that glowed in the dark while we sang). After an introduction from Drummond, he played a note and its octaves above and below and we hummed along to get in pitch to a count of ten. His recording man checked all was entering the Mac hard disc and then Drummond counted 1,2,3,4 and we began singing the note for five minutes, stopping only as we wished for breath. The lights were turned off so that we would not feel embarrassed. One was aware of the people each side and voices coming from behind and around while simultaneously being aware of one’s own thoughts – at least I was. I loved the idea of just breathing whenever, as opposed to singing for a phrase, and after a time decided that as five minutes was a long time I would use it as a meditation and walk along a beach, North Berwick beach. By the time we had done the first five-minute note I was only half-way along the beach.

Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power. By Marion Leonard. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007. 239 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-3862-9 - The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era. By Helen Reddington. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 220 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-5773-6 - Pimp’s Up, Ho’s Down: Hip-Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women. By T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. New York University Press, 2007. 186 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-8147-4014-9 - Volume 27 Issue 3

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Choro, A Social History of a Brazilian Popular Music. By Tamara Elena Livingston-Isenhour and Thomas George Caracas García. Indiana University Press, 2005. 253 pp. ISBN 0-253-34541-3 (pb) - Volume 27 Issue 1

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s biennial international conference took place in July this year in Mexico City. The facilities in the Universidad Iberoamericana, a modern private Jesuit University in the city’s business quarter, were excellent, with video projection and a good sound system in all the air-conditioned rooms. The plenary sessions were translated to and from Spanish and also video recorded and streamed onto the Internet, with a blog where watchers could leave comments.