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The Great American Songbook: Media

musical history

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George Gershwin
American composer George Gershwin working on the score for Porgy and Bess,...
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Fats Waller
American composer Fats Waller playing a piano, 1938. His contributions to the Great...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-123107)