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- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Watching jazz (Online)
- Subject
- 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.
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Heile, Björn.
Elsdon, Peter.
Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-