Some liked it hot
Subtitle: jazz women in film and television, 1928-1959
By: Kristin A. McGee.
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780819569073; 9780819569080
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jazz culture and all-girls film. The feminization of mass culture and the novelty of all-girl bands; title: The Ingenues and the Harlem Playgirls; title: All-girl bands and sound films in the swing era. Phil Spitalny's Musical Queens; title: The "blonde bombshell of swing": Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears; title: Soundies and features during the 1940s. Swinging the classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix; title: Pinups, patriotism, and feminized genres; title: Swing-centered films and the hour of charm; title: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and independent black sound film; title: Variety television and the 1950s. Television, vaudeo, and female musical hosts; title: Variety television revives all-girl bands; title: Television's musical guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne; title: Conclusion : the jazz canon (representations and gendered absences).