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Fan Fare: An Investigation of Recent Jazz Biographies

Spring, Evan

Expert music scholars have long derided most jazz books as glorified fandom, or at best inflated magazine articles. Especially suspect is jazz bi-ography, the sycophantish fan's most likely entree into book publishing. Unfortunately, these biographies under consideration, with one or per-haps two exceptions, will do little to dispel highbrow suspicions.

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Current Musicology
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https://doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i71-73.4884

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August 18, 2022