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'Stronger Than Itself': On The Power Of Jazz Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and the American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis. The book tracks the history of Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, an organization that promoted the development of new jazz styles.

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Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and the American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis. The book tracks the history of Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, an organization that promoted the development of new jazz styles.

A Power Stronger Than Itself
A Power Stronger Than Itself

The AACM and American Experimental Music

by George E. Lewis

Hardcover, 676 pages |

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A Power Stronger Than Itself
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The AACM and American Experimental Music
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