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Body and Soul - Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 (Paperback) Loot Price: R555
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Body and Soul - Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 (Paperback): Peter Stanfield

Body and Soul - Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 (Paperback)

Peter Stanfield

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Writing in the late 1930s, New York journalist Joseph Mitchell observed: "Except for the minstrel show, the strip act is probably America's only original contribution to the theater." In Body and Soul, Peter Stanfield's arguments echo Mitchell's observation. Stanfield begins by exploring how Hollywood used blackface minstrelsy to represent an emerging urban American theatrical history, and ends with a look at how American film at the close of the studio era represented urban decay through the figure of the burlesque dancer and stripper. In between, Stanfield considers the representation of American urban life in jazz, blues, ballads, and sin-songs and the manner in which the film studios exploited this "gutter" music. Alongside extensive, thought-provoking, and lively analysis of some of the most popular jazz and blues songs of the twentieth century--"Frankie and Johnny," "St. Louis Blues," "The Man I Love," "Blues in the Night," and "Body and Soul"--the book contains new work on blackface minstrelsy in early sound movies, racial representation and censorship, torch singers and torch songs, burlesque and strippers, the noir cityscape, the Hollywood Left, and hot jazz.

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Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2005
First published: June 2005
Authors: Peter Stanfield
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07235-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz
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LSN: 0-252-07235-9
Barcode: 9780252072352

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