Contents SUZEL ANA REILY Tom Jobim and the Bossa Nova era STAN HAWKINS Perspectives in popular musicology: music, Lennox and meaning in 1990s pop JAY R. HOWARD and The splintered art world of Contemporary JOHN M. STRECK Christian Music CYNTHIA MAHABIR Wit and popular music: the calypso and the blues OLLE EDSTROM ‘Cookin’ on the West Coast’: a contribution from the Swedish West Coast to contemporary composition practice Middle Eight DAVID HESMONDHALGH IASPM in Conference SIMON FRITH RoJaRo Index DAVE HARKER Debate: Taking fun seriously Reviews JOE BONOMO Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image: The Unauthorised Story of The Beatles ‘Get Back’ Sessions, by Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt JAN FAIRLEY Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place, edited by Martin Stokes ALENKA BARBER- Bili ste zraven. O rock kulturi v severovzhodni KERSOVAN Sloveniji, by Ratko Mursic et al. REEBEE GARAFOLO It’s Not About A Salary, by Brian Cross ALF BJORNBERG and Kristen Klatvask fra Vejle: Danish pub music, OLA STOCKFELT mythscapes and ‘local camp’ KEIR KEIGHTLEY ‘Turn it down’ she shrieked: gender, domestic space, and high fidelity, 1948-59 - GREG DIMITRIADIS Hip hop: from live performance to mediated narrative LARS LILLIESTAM On playing by ear Middle Eight THOMAS GEYRHALTER Effeminacy, camp and sexual subversion in rock: the Cure and Suede The Kurt Weill Foundation for music Essay Reviews PETE MARTIN Jazz for beginners by Ron David, What to Listen for in Jazz by Barry Kernfeld, the Guide to Class Recorded Jazz by Tom Piazza, Swing Changes: Big Band Jazz in New Deal America by David W. Stowe Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll THOMAS SWISS in American Poetry edited by Jim Elledge, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman DAVE LAING Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism by Michael Chanan, Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effect on Music by Michael Chanan MARTIN STOKES World Music: The Rough Guide edited by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, David Muddyman and Richard Trillo (contributed editor Kim Burton), Three Kilos of Coffee: An Autobiography by Manu Dibangu (in collaboration with Danielle Rouard, translated by Beth G. Raps) LOUISE MEINTJES Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville by Christopher Ballantine IAIN CHAMBERS Dangerous Crossroads. Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place by George Lipsitz JOHAN FORNAS Popular Music and Society by Brian Longhurst, Understanding Popular Music by Roy Shuker SARA COHEN My Music edited by S. D. Crafts, D. Cavicchi and C. Keil MARTIN STOKES and Introduction RUTH DAVIS TONY LANGLOIS The local and global in North African popular music MOTTI REGEV Musica mizrakhit, Israeli rock and national culture in Israel CASSANDRA LORIUS ‘Oh boy, you salt of the earth’: Outwitting patriarchy in raqs baladi VIRGINIA DANIELSON New nightingales of the Nile: popular music in Egypt since the 1970s The art/popular music paradigm and the RUTH DAVIS Tunisian Ma’lif STEPHEN BLUM and ‘The morning of freedom rose up’: Kurdish AMIR HASSANPOUR popular song and the exigencies of cultural survival ANNE K. RASMUSSEN Theory and practice at the ‘Arabic org’: digital technology in contemporary Arab music performance Middle Eight Rock, rap and ruckus at the Grammys PERL SHAMSAI DAVE LAING Robert Shelton 1926-1995 Booklist