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Body and Soul - Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 (Paperback)
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Body and Soul - Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R555
Discovery Miles 5 550
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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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