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The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography By Teófilo Espada-Brignoni. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

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The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography By Teófilo Espada-Brignoni. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2025

Emily Hynes Krieger
Emily Hynes Krieger*
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Email: emihynes@live.unc.edu
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , November 2024 , pp. 405 - 407
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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