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Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington.
From:
The Nation
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November 29, 1993| Author:
Santoro, Gene
| COPYRIGHT 1993 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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BOOKS & THE ARTS.
The Duke of All
Over the past few years Duke Ellington scholarship has become an academic growth industry--although it still has a long way to go before it reached the scale of the beehives surrounding, say, James Joyce or Jackson Pollock or Thomas Pynchon. Some of that growth is undoubtedly due to the attention high-profile presentations like Lincoln Center's jazz series have lavished on Ellington--the high-culture vulture's equivalent o...
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