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Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on 20th-Century German Music. .(Book Review)

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Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms on 20th-Century German Music. Edited by Michael J. Budds. (Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 17.) Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2002. [xiv, 213 p. ISBN 1-576-47072-5. $38.] Music examples, illustrations, index.

The fragmented design on the book's cover, an abstract image in colors similar to those of the German flag, may be interpreted as doubly symbolic, suggesting both the book's complex subject matter and the many blank spots clouding our understanding of it. Unfortunately, the ragged image on the cover also mirrors the uneven quality of the essays presented here, all of ...

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