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Jazz: Music and Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

David Ayers
Affiliation:
Lecturer in English and American Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, England.

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Type
Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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