Body and soul
Subtitle: jazz and blues in American film, 1927-63
By: Peter Stanfield.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Jazz in motion pictures.; Blues (Music) in motion pictures.; Race in motion pictures.
Description: Alongside extensive, thought provoking, and lively analysis of some of the most popular jazz and blues songs of the 20th century, this text contains new work on blackface minstrelsy in early sound movies, racial representation and censorship, torch singers and torch songs, the Hollywood Left, and hot jazz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-210) and index.