two reviews i wrote this year were just published in the journal popular music (volume 27:1, 2008). the books i reviewed were:

• García, David F.: “Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music”, Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2006
• Biddle, Ian; Knights, Vanessa (eds.): “Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location – Between the Global and the Local”, Hampshire, Burlington: Ashgate 2007