Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).