Troubling Gender: Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene. By Pablo Vila and Pablo Semán. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2011. 217 pp. ISBN 978-1-43990-267-7

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Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/PMU, IP address: 155.69.4.4 on 25 May 2015content to indicate and describe many of the working parts of the changed economy. Both (sets of) authors break down change in useful ways, but, once 'broken down', those constituent elements need to be 're-built' as full-on industrial processes. Consequently, what is lacking from both titles is a sense of the politics of music industry, an analysis of it as a process in which new digital practices in the production and use of music goods have been reimagined in ways that still locate them within capitalism, even as competing rhetorics of 'Do-it-yourself' and 'piracy' continue to obscure 'what's going on'.