Jammin' at the Margins - Jazz and the American Cinema

Arguing that jazz films create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself, this study explores the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema.

About the author

Krin Gabbard is professor of comparative literature and English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an amateur trumpet player.

Summary

Arguing that jazz films create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself, this study explores the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Krin Gabbard
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1996
• EAN: 9780226277899
• ISBN: 978-0-226-27789-9
• No. of pages: 357
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 539 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries