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Jazz and cocktails : rethinking race and the sound of film noir /

<P>Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in early film noir. As working jazz musicians began...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wager, Jans B., 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: nostalgia for the Lush Life
  • Pie eye's juke joint : jazz and its interpretations
  • The porters and waiters club : jazz, movies, and Ogden
  • Studio jazz from Harlem to Acapulco
  • The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel's : charting the alienation effect in film noir
  • From Elysium to Robards, from real to reel
  • A Paris bar where miles innovates
  • "All the very gay places" : Ellington and Strayhorn swing in northern Michigan
  • Cannoy's club : "All men are evil"
  • "Jeep's blues" and jazz today.