From Transforming Cultures, a special issue on Music and the Production of Place. From Open Letters Monthly, a special section on music. Silence is golden: How a pause can be the most devastating effect in music. A review of George Gershwin by Walter Rimler. A review of Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 by Kristin A. McGee. A review of A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California by Dorothy Lamb Crawford. More and more on Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician by Barry Seldes. A review of Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties. P.J. O'Rourke reviews books on Woodstock. A review of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley. More on Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. Jay

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