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A storied singer : Frank Sinatra as literary conceit / Gilbert L. Gigliotti.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.S565 G44 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gigliotti, Gilbert L., 1961-
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of popular culture 0198-9871 ; no. 76.
- Contributions to the study of popular culture, 0198-9871 ; no. 76
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sinatra, Frank.
- Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 170 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Man in Many Looking Glasses: From an Obscene Gerund to a Pas de Deux 1
- Part I Self-Portraits 9
- Chapter 1 "Come [Fly, Dance, and Waltz] with Us on Equal Terms": The Whitmanesque Sinatra of Sammy Cahn 11
- Chapter 2 The Colors of Ava: Tone Poems of Color and the Painful Measure of Sinatra's Passions 21
- Chapter 3 The Composition of Celebrity: Sinatra as Text in the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn 33
- Chapter 4 Left Standing at Watertown Station: The Chairman of the Board in the Time of Woodstock 45
- Chapter 5 Strolling among the Stars: Gordon Jenkins's Reflections on Frank's Future 57
- Part II "Sad-Eyed Sinatras" in Song and Story 65
- Chapter 6 "You Will Be My Music": Sinatra in Popular Song from the 1940s to a New Millennium 67
- Chapter 7 The Universal Tongue: Language and Image in Raul Nunez's Sinatra 89
- Chapter 8 "There'll Be No Future Without Him": The Voice versus the Emerging Monster in Playing Sinatra 99
- Chapter 9 "The Voice" in the Desert: A Quartet of Frank Revelations 107
- Chapter 10 Tales of Two Cities: Sinatra as Genius Hobokenensis and Vegas Incarnate 121
- Chapter 11 "Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter": Blaming the Oyster in Sinatraland 135
- Epilogue: Sinatriad: The Unwritten American Epic 147
- Appendix I A Chronological Listing of Frank Sinatra's Reprise Albums for Which Stan Cornyn Wrote the Liner Notes 151
- Appendix II A Chronological Listing of Original Songs Mentioning Frank Sinatra (Selected) 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-160) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313309736
- OCLC:
- 48428990
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