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Jazz as Visual Language - Film, Television and the Dissonant Image (Hardcover)
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Jazz as Visual Language - Film, Television and the Dissonant Image (Hardcover)
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This book provides a timely analysis of the relationship between
jazz and recording and broadcast technologies in the early
twentieth century. Jazz histories have traditionally privileged
qualities such as authenticity, naturalness and spontaneity, but to
do so overlooks jazz's status as a modernist, mechanised art form
that evolved alongside the moving image and visual cultures. Jazz
as Visual Language shows that the moving image is crucial to our
understanding of what the materiality of jazz really is. Focusing
on Len Lye's direct animation, Gjon Mili's experimental footage of
musicians performing and the BBC's Jazz 625 series, this book
places emphasis on film and television that conveys the 'sound of
surprise' through formal innovation, rather than narrative
structure. Nicolas Pillai seeks to refine a critical vocabulary of
jazz and visual culture whilst arguing that jazz was never just a
new sound; it was also a new way of seeing the world.
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