Jans B Wager

Jazz and Cocktails

Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With insightful analyses of the contributions of jazz composers such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Chico Hamilton, and John Lewis, this book considers the complex roles of jazz and race in classic film noir.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781477312278
• ISBN-10: 1477312277
• Artikelnr.: 46604469

Autorenporträt

By Jans B. Wager

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Permissions
Introduction: Nostalgia for the Lush Life
Chapter 1: Pie Eye’s Juke Joint: Jazz and Its Interpretations
Chapter 2: The Porters and Waiters Club: Jazz, Movies, and Ogden
Chapter 3: Studio Jazz from Harlem to Acapulco
Chapter 4: The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel’s: Charting the
Alienation Effect in Film Noir
Chapter 5: From Elysium to Robards, from Real to Reel
Chapter 6: A Paris Bar where Miles Innovates
Chapter 7: "All the Very Gay Places": Ellington and Strayhorn Swing in
Northern Michigan
Chapter 8: Cannoy’s Club: “All Men Are Evil”
Chapter 9: “Jeep’s Blues” and Jazz Today
Notes
Bibliography
Index