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George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

  • Written by Ryan Raul Bañagale, Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting potIt took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic.GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images

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