Jammin' at the Margins

Jazz and the American Cinema

Автор: Krin Gabbard

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't real...

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Автор

Krin Gabbard

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1996

страници

357

EAN

9780226277899

ISBN

0226277895

Enbook ID

04544951

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

548

Размери

156 x 226 x 22

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American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself. In this work, Gabbard scrutinizes these films, exploring the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema. Gabbard's close look at jazz film biographies, from "The Jazz Singer" to "Bird", reveals Hollywood's reluctance to acknowledge black subjectivity. Black and even white jazz artists have become vehicles for familiar Hollywood conceptions of race, gender and sexuality. Even Scorsese's "New York, New York" and Spike Lee's "Mo' Better Blues" have failed to disentangle themselves from entrenched stereotypes and conventions. Gabbard also examines Hollywood's confrontation with jazz as an elite art form, and the role of the jazz trumpet as a crucial signifier of masculinity. Finally, he considers the acting careers of Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole and Hoagy Carmichael; Duke Ellington's extraordinary work in films from 1929 until the late 1960s; and the forgotten career of Kay Kyser, star of nine Hollywood films and leader of a popular swing band.

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