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Jammin' at the Margins

Jazz and the American Cinema

Jammin' at the Margins( )
Author: Gabbard, Krin
ISBN:978-0-226-27788-2
Publication Date:May 1996
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $175.95
Book Description:

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. Gabbard's close look at jazz film...
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Book Details
Pages:357
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Musicals
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.59 x 2.36 x 0.26 cm
Book Weight:0.758 Kilograms



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