I am very pleased to announce the publication of the most recent issue of MUSICultures (41-1), a special issue on "Music and Labour" co-edited by Dr. Christina Baade (McMaster University), Dr. Susan Fast (McMaster University), and Dr. Line Grenier (Université de Montréal).

This issue is available to current subscribers here (non-subscribers can freely access issues more than 3 years old): http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/MC/index. For membership/subscription information, please visit the website of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music: http://www.yorku.ca/cstm/.

The contents of this issue include:

CHRISTINA BAADE, SUSAN FAST and LINE GRENIER
Musicians as Workers: Sites of Struggle and Resistance

MARTIN CLOONAN
Musicians as Workers: Putting the UK Musicians‚ Union Into Context

KAREN CYRUS
Lessons from the Past: The Work Culture of Session Musicians in Jamaica's Recording Industry from 1957-1979

SHEENA HYNDMAN
No Money, Mo‚ Problems: The Role of the Remix in Restructuring Compensation for Producers of Electronic Dance Music

JOHN WILLIAMSON
Cooperation and Conflict: The British Musicians' Union, Musical Labour and Copyright in the UK

MATT STAHL
Public, Private, Popular: Pop Performers, Liberalism and the Limits of Rights

SCOTT HENDERSON
Working in a Coalmine: Post-Industrial Spaces and Local Music in Saint-Étienne, France

LAURA JORDÁN GONZÁLEZ
Les travailleurs au sein de la Nouvelle Chanson Chilienne : la representation du mineur et l'incarnation du travail musical

** Book Reviews

ONS BARNAT
Véronique Audet, Innu Nikamu - L’Innu chante. Pouvoir des chants, identité et guérison chez les Innus. Collection Mondes Autochtones

KIM CHOW-MORRIS
SanSan Kwan, Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces

SUSAN HURLEY-GLOWA
Godfrey Baldacchino, ed., Island Songs: A Global Repertoire

**Recording Review

TANYA MERCHANT
G’ayrat O’temuratov and Azat Seyilxanov, Music of the Golden Sands: Songs and Melodies from Karakalpak Bards. Dir. Frédéric Léotar.

**Multimedia Review

JEANNE MIRAMON-BONHOURE
Suvarnalata Rao, Wim van der Meer, et al, Music in Motion: The Automated Transcription for Indian Music (AUTRIM)


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Heather Sparling, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Musical Traditions
General Editor, MUSICultures

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