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The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. (Book Reviews: Reference).
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2d ed. Edited by Barry Kernfeld. London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2002. [3 vols. ISBN 1-56159-284-6. $550.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographies.
The end of the last millennium was also the end of the first century of jazz. While opinions concerning the genre's definition, origins, and ownership still vary, there is little question as to its artistic, social, and cultural importance. The newly issued second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is an appropriate symbol of jazz's continuing growth in stature as a field worthy of research and instruction.
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