Jammin' at the Margins : Jazz and the American Cinema
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RESUMEN. Capítulos temáticos sobre la relaciónentre el jazz y el cine. Incluye bibliografía abundante, con numerosas referencias hemerográficas. /// SUMARIO. Introduction : Whose jazz, whose cinema? // The ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and its remakes / Black and tan fantasies: the jazz biopic / Jazz becomes art / Signifyin(g) the phallus: representations of the jazz trumpet / Duke's place: visualizing a jazz composer / Actor and musician: Louis Armstrong and his films / Nat King Cole, Hoagy Carmichael, and the fate of the jazz actor / Conclusion: New York, New York and Short cuts // Notes // Bibliography // Index
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 Jammin' at the Margins, Gabbard scrutinizes these films, exploring the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema (información de la editorial)