| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 316 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Music/culture
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Music/culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-298) and index. |
| Contents |
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). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women jazz musicians in motion pictures.
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Women jazz musicians in motion pictures. |
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Big bands in motion pictures.
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Big bands in motion pictures. |
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Jazz in motion pictures.
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Jazz in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting of music.
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Television broadcasting of music. |
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Variety shows (Television programs) -- United States.
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Variety shows (Television programs) |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McGee, Kristin A. Some liked it hot. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2009 9780819569073 (DLC) 2009000997 (OCoLC)276339398 |
| ISBN |
9780819569677 electronic book |
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0819569674 electronic book |
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9780819569073 |
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0819569070 |
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9780819569080 |
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0819569089 |
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