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Watching jazz : encounters with jazz performance on screen

Title
Watching jazz : encounters with jazz performance on screen / edited by Björn Heile, Peter Elsdon, and Jenny Doctor.
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Heile, Björn
  • Elsdon, Peter
  • Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
Description
xiii, 289 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Jazz in motion pictures
  • Musicians in motion pictures
  • Jazz on television
  • Musicians on television
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279), videography (pages 279-281), discography (pages 281-282) and index.
Contents
Shaping screen media. Framing jazz : thoughts on representation and embodiment / Peter Elsdon -- "All aboard!" : soundies and Vitaphone shorts / Emile Wennekes ; Assimilating and domesticating jazz in 1950s American variety television : Nat King Cole's transformation from guest star to national host / Kristin McGee -- "Jazz is where you find it" : encountering jazz on BBC television, 1946-66 / Jenny Doctor -- Gesture and mediatization. "All sights were perceived as sounds" : Pat Metheny and the instrumental image / Jonathan de Souza -- Jazz performance on screen : mediatization of gesture, bodily empathy, and the viewing experience / Paul McIntyre -- "Playing the clown" : Charles Mingus, Jimmy Knepper, and Jerry Maguire / Krin Gabbard -- Ontologies of media. Seeking resolution : John Coltrane, myth, and the audio-visual / Tony Whyton -- Screening the event : watching Miles Davis's "My funny Valentine" / Nicholas Gebhardt -- Play it again, Duke : jazz performance, improvisation, and the construction of spontaneity / Björn Heile.
Call Number
MFL 16-4628
ISBN
  • 9780199347650
  • 0199347654
  • 9780199347667
  • 0199347662
  • 9780199347674 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0199347670 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780199347681 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0199347689 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780199347698 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0199347697 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780190456825 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0190456825 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015031696
OCLC
936429696
Title
Watching jazz : encounters with jazz performance on screen / edited by Björn Heile, Peter Elsdon, and Jenny Doctor.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279), videography (pages 279-281), discography (pages 281-282) and index.
Added Author
Heile, Björn, editor.
Elsdon, Peter, editor.
Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958- editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 16-4628
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