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Authors: David Schiff, Julian Rushton
ISBN-13: 9780521559539, ISBN-10: 0521559537
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1997
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: David Schiff

Book Synopsis

A study of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as musical work, historical event and cultural document.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1Introduction: the one and only1
2Identity4
3Instruction manual (instead of an analysis)12
4Ingredients30
5Inception: the Aeolian Hall concert51
6Interpretations63
7Influence71
8Invisibility: ideology and reception82
Notes101
Select bibliography109
Index114

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