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Arranging Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue” and the Creation of an American Icon. By Ryan Raul Bañagale . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2017

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1 Schiff, David, Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Jeffrey Magee argued that excluding “Blue Skies” from a list of Henderson's compositions was “akin to omitting the Diabelli Variations from an article on Beethoven because the original tune was composed by someone else.” Magee, Jeffrey, “Fletcher Henderson, Composer: A Counter-Entry to the International Dictionary of Black Composers,” Black Music Research Journal 19, no. 1 (1999): 67 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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7 Bernstein, Leonard, “Jazz in Serious Music,” in The Infinite Variety of Music (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966), 60 Google Scholar.