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Special Feature: New Books and Compact Discs in Mexican Music by Ruth Hellier‐Tinoco Jeff Nevin Virtuoso mariachi Rowan and Littlefield/Lanham, MD: University Press of America 2002 xiv + 251pp., index. Paperback $37 ISBN 0–7618–2173–2 Helena Simonett Banda: Mexican musical life across borders. Middle‐town: Wesleyan University Press, 2001 xii + 339pp., illustrations, index. ISBN 0–1895–6429‐x‐cloth ($65) 0–8195–6430–3‐paper ($19.99). Heroes and horses: corridos from the Arizona‐Sonora borderlands Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, SFW CD 40475. 2002. Booklet (30pp.). Various performers. Viva el mariachi! Nati Cano's Mariachi Los Camperos. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, SFW CD 40459. 2002. Booklet (34pp.). Dale A. Olsen Music of El Dorado: the ethnomusicology of ancient South American cultures. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. 290 pp.. illustrations, music examples, audio examples, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–8130–2440–4 (hbk). Lise A. Waxer The city of the musical memory: salsa, record grooves, and popular culture in Call, Colombia. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 416pp., illustrations, maps, musical examples, appendices. Paperback $24.95. ISBN 0819564427 Suzel Ana Reily Voices of the Magi, enchanted journeys in southeast Brazil. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, May 2002. Pp.266. Hardback $40. Paperback $21. ISBN 0226709418 Shemeem Burney Abbas The female voice in Sufi ritual: devotional practices of Pakistan and India, 2002. Austin: University of Texas Press. 209pp, photographs, tables, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Hardback $45. ISBN 0–292–70515–8 Joachim Braun Music in ancient Israel/Palestine: archaeological, written, and comparative sources. Translated Douglas W. Scott. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. xxxvi + 368 pp., photographs, . drawings, maps, bibliography, indexes. Hardcover $30.00/£21.95. ISBN 0–8028–4477–4. UK & Europe distributor Alban Books, Edinburgh. Jeremy Montagu Reed instruments: the Montagu collection: an annotated catalogue. Volume 4 part 2. Fallen Leaf Reference Books in Music, No. 36. Drawings. Bibliography. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, February, 2002. 206pp. $60 hardback. ISBN 0810839385. Ruth Crawford Seeger. The music of American folk song. Edited by Larry Polansky with Judith Tick. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.210pp. Hardback $45. Paperback $24.95. ISBN 1580461360.