Some liked it hot : jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 (Book, 2009) [WorldCat.org]
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Some liked it hot : jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959

Author: Kristin A McGee
Publisher: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2009.
Series: Music/culture.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Looks at all-girl bands and jazz women from the 1920s through the 1950s and how they fit into the nascent mass culture, to uncover some of the historical motivations for excluding women from the jazz  Read more...

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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kristin A McGee
ISBN: 9780819569073 0819569070 9780819569080 0819569089
OCLC Number: 276339398
Description: xv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Jazz culture and all-girl films. 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 variety guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne --
The jazz canon (representations and gendered absences).
Series Title: Music/culture.
Responsibility: Kristin A. McGee.

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"This very important work investigates how questions of gender and race intersected not only with music but with film, television, radio, and the recording industry." LUCY FISCHER, director of film Read more...

 
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