Some liked it hot jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 /
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| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Music/culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Jazz culture and all-girls 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 guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne
- Conclusion : the jazz canon (representations and gendered absences).