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Author McGee, Kristin A.

Title Some liked it hot : jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959 / Kristin A. McGee.

Publication Info. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 316 pages) : illustrations.
Series Music/culture
Music/culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index.
Contents Jazz culture and all-girl films. The feminization of mass culture and the novelty of all-girl bands -- The Ingenues and the Harlem Playgirls -- All-girl bands and sound films in the swing era. Phil Spitalny's Musical Queens -- The "blonde bombshell of swing": Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears -- Soundies and features during the 1940s. Swinging the classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix -- Pinups, patriotism, and feminized genres -- Swing-centered films and the hour of charm -- The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and independent black sound film -- Variety television and the 1950s. Television, vaudeo, and female musical hosts -- Variety television revives all-girl bands -- Television's musical variety guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne -- The jazz canon (representations and gendered absences).
Note Print version record.
Subject Women jazz musicians in motion pictures.
Big bands in motion pictures.
Jazz in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Television broadcasting of music.
Variety shows (Television programs) -- United States.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Fernsehen.
Jazz.
Musikerin.
Film.
United States.
Big bands in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01902533
Jazz in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst00982204
Motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01027285
Television broadcasting of music. (OCoLC)fst01146786
Variety shows (Television programs) (OCoLC)fst01164459
Women jazz musicians in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01905178
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: McGee, Kristin A. Some liked it hot. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2009 9780819569073 (DLC) 2009000997 (OCoLC)276339398
ISBN 9780819569677 (electronic bk.)
0819569674 (electronic bk.)
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