Jazz as visual language : film, television and the dissonant image / Nicolas Pillai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pillai, Nicolas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz in motion pictures.

Jazz on television.

Physical Description:

xi, 176 pages

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Summary:

The new phenomenon of jazz music took the world by storm in the early twentieth century. Yet from the outset jazz was much more than just a musical genre: it has always drawn upon and interacted with visual media. This book provides a timely analysis and history of jazz onscreen, by examining works in which the artistry and intelligence of great musicians is expressed through experimental and innovative image-making. Through archival research and close textual analysis this book provides an original account of jazz in relation to recoding and broadcasting technologies. Three case studies bring together new conceptions of audiovisual improvisation and highlight the tensions between film from and jazz score across three distinct cultural context and art practices. The texts discard stereotypical approaches to jazz and the image, and instead gives focus to the 'sound of surprise' through new and discordant forms From Len Lye's vivid direct animations to Gjon Miti's intimate studio films and the BBC's Jazz 625 series, this book reveals the Intersections between a trial-blazing musical movement, film, television and modernism. Nicolas Piliai seeks to refine a critical vocabulary of jazz and visual culture whilst arguing that the former was never just a new sound: it was also a new way of seeing the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Len Lye: The Sensual World 23

2 Gjon Mili: The Material Ghost 51

3 Jazz 625: Inform-Educate-Entertain 83.

ISBN:

9781784533441

1784533440

OCLC:

965613717