Titolo e contributi: Some liked it hot : jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 / Kristin A. McGee
Pubblicazione: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Serie: Music/culture
ISBN: 978-0-8195-6908-0
Data:2009
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese:
Stati Uniti d'America
Note di contenuto:
- INDICE: Jazz culture and all-girl films. The feminization of mass culture and the novelty of all-girl bands -- The Ingenues and the Harlem Playgirls -- All-girl bands and sound films in the swing era. Phil Spitalny's Musical Queens -- The "blonde bombshell of swing": Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears -- Soundies and features during the 1940s. Swinging the classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix -- Pinups, patriotism, and feminized genres -- Swing-centered films and the hour of charm -- The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and independent black sound film -- Variety television and the 1950s. Television, vaudeo, and female musical hosts -- Variety television revives all-girl bands -- Television's musical variety guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne -- The jazz canon (representations and gendered absences)
Nota:
- Include bibliografia generale (p. 275-298) e indici
Dati generali (100)
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Tipo di data:
monografia edita in un solo anno
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Data di pubblicazione:
2009
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