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The article reviews the African Diaspora Music Project located at https://africandiasporamusicproject.org/.

The performances addressed in Chapter 2 putatively take up the same tune, but Malawey teases out clear distinctions in their negotiations of pitch. Despite her model's fluidity, Malawey keeps the middle chapters largely restricted to individual parameters, staying on-track by way of her careful choice of case studies and her descriptive focus. Chapter 6, for example, finds Malawey claiming that Elliott Smith's voice, compared to others' covering his music, is "dare I say more seemingly genuine" (158). Given the way that quality seems to prioritize singing individuals over the details of a song, Malawey's Chapter 4 case study is an inspired choice. [Extracted from the article]

Its purpose is to provide a first-hand account of the earliest days of the Pentecostal Revival in Canada so that today's generation might "understand better the way things were." Canadian Pentecostal Reader: The First Generation of Pentecostal Voices in Canada (1907-1925) ed. by Martin W. Mittelstadt and Caleb Howard Courtney (review) Readers would learn that Newfoundland was pioneered by an American female evangelist, and New Brunswick would produce the largest Oneness constituency in Canada, which was different from its western sibling, the Apostolic Church of Pentecost. [Extracted from the article]