Big ears : listening for gender in jazz studies / / edited by Nichole Rustin and Sherrie Tucker

• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (474 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.65082
• Soggetto topico: Jazz - History and criticism; Jazz - Social aspects
• Altri autori: RustinNichole T TuckerSherrie <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: PART I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History. SEPARATED AT "BIRTH": SINGING AND THE HISTORY OF JAZZ / Lara Pellegrinelli. WITH LOVIE AND LIL: REDISCOVERING TWO CHICAGO PIANISTS OF THE 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor. GENDER, JAZZ, AND THE POPULAR FRONT / Monica Hairston. "THE BATTLE OF THE SAXES": GENDER, DANCE BANDS, AND BRITISH NATIONALISM IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / Christina Baade. IDENTITY FOR SALE: GLENN MILLER, WYNTON MARSALIS, AND CULTURAL REPLAY IN MUSIC / Tracy McMullen -- PART II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance. FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE PAVEMENT: A GEOPOLITICS OF BLACK DANCE / Jayna Brown. PERVERSE HYSTERICS: THE NOISY CRI OF LES DIABOLIQUES / Julie Dawn Smith. "BORN OUT OF JAZZ, YET EMBRACING ALL MUSIC": RACE, GENDER, AND TECHNOLOGY IN GEORGE RUSSELL'S LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT / Eric Porter. "BUT THIS MUSIC IS MINE ALREADY!": "WHITE WOMAN" AS JAZZ COLLECTOR IN THE FILM NEW ORLEANS (1947) / Sherrie Tucker. FITTING THE PART / Ingrid Monson -- PART III. Reimagining Jazz Representations. "BETTER A JAZZ ALBUM THAN LIPSTICK" (LIEBER JAZZPLATTE ALS LIPPENSTIFT): THE 1956 JAZZ PODIUM SERIES REVEALS IMAGES OF JAZZ AND GENDER IN POSTWAR GERMANY / Ursel Schlicht. EXCLUSION, OPENNESS, AND UTOPIA IN BLACK MALE PERFORMANCE AT THE WORLD STAGE JAZZ JAM SESSIONS / Joao H. Costa Vargas. "IT TAKES TWO PEOPLE TO CONFIRM THE TRUTH": THE JAZZ FICTION OF SHERLEY ANN WILLIAMS AND TONI CADE BAMBARA / Farah Jasmine Griffin. "BLOW, MAN, BLOW!": REPRESENTING GENDER, WHITE PRIMITIVES, AND JAZZ MELODRAMA THROUGH A YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN / Nichole T. Rustin. THE GENDERED JAZZ AESTHETICS OF THAT MAN OF MINE: THE INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM AND INDEPENDENT BLACK SOUND FILM / Kristin McGee
• Sommario/riassunto: Collection of essays on the role of gender in jazz studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Big ears
• ISBN: 0-8223-4320-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820653503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Refiguring American music.; e-Duke books scholarly collection.