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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 studies, University of Pittsburgh" Read more...
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