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Musicians in transit: Argentina and the globalization of popular music, by Matthew B. Karush, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2017, 280 pp., US$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-6236-4

denied patriotic claims. This latter appears particularly among the Maya but among others like the Tarahumara and Yaqui, and among many whom Mexico “claimed” but clearly did not control, throughout the apachería. Nonetheless, Guardino’s nuanced conception of nation makes sense of the sacrifice, gender, honor, and symbolism that this war would encompass for most Mexican and US participants. This excellent work, suitable for US and Mexican scholars, students, and wider readers, resets our evaluation of the US–Mexican War. The Dead March reveals a North America more similar and sisterly than historians have generally shown. Both nations sought to find new foundational identities, they attempted to use military service as a model for citizenship, and both saw their actions in the 1840s as just and right. Both also experienced considerable political violence. Both faced racial divisions and opportunistic caudillos. In the clash that ensued between them, raw ambition and economic might blasted a US path to the halls of Montezuma, and both countries would pay the price of civil war in the aftermath. From both sides of the Rio Grande, the vital experience of this age was first lived and understood, as Guardino has shown, from the perspective of the ordinary soldier.