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Article: The George Gershwin Reader.(Book Review)
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The George Gershwin Reader. Edited by Robert Wyatt and John Andrew Johnson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [xiv, 354 p. ISBN 0-19-513019-7. $30.00.] Chronology, bibliography, index.
The life and music of George Gershwin have occasioned a wide-ranging and voluminous mass of written commentary--beginning in the early 1920s, when the young composer of "Swanee" was celebrated as the hottest new songwriter emerging from Tin Pan Alley, and continuing to the present day. There is relatively little in this body of writing that could properly be considered scholarship, and the material itself has rarely been the subject of systematic scholarly scrutiny. Even ...