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Some liked it hot : jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 / Kristin A. McGee.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.J38 M34 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGee, Kristin A.
- Series:
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women jazz musicians in motion pictures.
- Big bands in motion pictures.
- Jazz in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Variety shows (Television programs).
- United States.
- History.
- Television broadcasting of music.
- Variety shows (Television programs)--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 316 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Jazz culture and all-girls film. 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 guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne
- Conclusion : the jazz canon (representations and gendered absences).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780819569073
- 0819569070
- 9780819569080
- 0819569089
- OCLC:
- 276339398
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