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Music: Books

Billie Holiday

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dreams of love : playing the romantic pianist

Creating jazz counterpoint : New Orleans, barbershop harmony, and the blues

Making samba : a new history of race and music in Brazil

Beyond the score : music as performance

Stephen Sondheim

Louis Armstrong

The Ninth : Beethoven and the world in 1824

The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical

The Gershwins and me : a personal history in twelve songs

Forbidden music : the Jewish composers banned by the Nazis

Singer-songwriters and musical open mics