Music in the West Country: Social and Cultural History Across an English Region, Music in Britain, 1600–2000 ( Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2018 ). xx + 456 pp. $50.00

Additionally, while admitting the site's flaws, Darren Mueller's recent Wikipedia review article in the Journal of the American Musicological Society makes a compelling case for a collaboration between scholars and Wikipedia, noting that ‘Casual dismissals of Wikipedia often fail to acknowledge the site's highly developed markup language, style guide, classifications system, and governance’.2 As internet sources become more prevalent and as Wikipedia's entries become more standardized, as Mueller suggests, the issue of Wikipedia use in scholarly material is sure to persist. Banfield also introduces the soundscape methodology, particularly as presented by R. Murray Schafer, that will be used throughout the remainder of the text.3 He cites Reinhard Strohm's Music in Late Medieval Bruges, with its opening chapter entitled ‘Townscape-soundscape’, as the source that has the most direct relevance and inspiration for his own methodology in studying the music of the West Country.4 Of particular importance is Strohm's practice of associating different musical sounds in the city with different spaces to create an inclusive musical geography. Furthermore, while organ may not still be a required adjunct to religious practice or to the tourism industry, the author sees a targeted future for the organ's cultural relevance ‘where style, money, will, and sense of artistic community are happy enough to coincide’ (p. 63). The number of small towns throughout the area of Devon that could boast of an active band or choir is astonishing.