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Black Music, White Business
8-page photo section, index. Appendixes: Mark Levine's contract with Catalyst Records, Royalty payments to Mark Levine from United Artists Records.
Format: 1
186
Edition: 1st
Year: 1998
Publisher: Pathfinder Press
ISBN: 9780873488594
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