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Watching jazz encounters with jazz performance on screen

Title
Watching jazz [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Watching jazz (Online)
Subject
  • Jazz in motion pictures
  • Musicians in motion pictures
  • Jazz on television
  • Musicians on television
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references ( pages 267-282) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2015031696
OCLC
ssj0001675339
Title
Watching jazz [electronic resource] : encounters with jazz performance on screen / edited by Björn Heile, Peter Elsdon, and Jenny Doctor.
Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 267-282) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Heile, Björn.
Elsdon, Peter.
Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
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