Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Record Industry By Kyle Barnett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

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tunes and new hymn texts in Native languages that combined Christian theology with images from Native cultures and traditions. Eyerly notes that it is difficult to be certain of performance practices of Native Moravians in the eighteenth century, and she offers informed conjectures about what their music making might have sounded like. The use of historical imagination found inMoravian Soundscapes and in its digital contributions, as well as the book’s departures from some academic norms in its form and style, forge possibilities for musicology that are, in many ways, groundbreaking. Indeed, I recommend this book to all musicologists and historians, regardless of their areas of expertise, as a model of work that comingles a personal voice with a critical one, and imaginative story telling with archival evidence.