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Play the way you feel : the essential guide to jazz stories on film /

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"This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, Kevin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Jazz Films > United States > History and criticism.
Jazz musicians in motion pictures.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The "I got rhythm" of jazz movies 1927 & 1946
  • Duke's day & first features 1929-1940
  • Origin stories 1941-1947
  • Bands of brothers 1941-1948
  • Young men with horns : the jazz biopic's golden age 1950-1959
  • The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1951-1961
  • Independents in black and white 1961-1967
  • Spectacles 1972-1984
  • Suffering artists 1984-1989
  • Young lions & historical fictions 1990-2000
  • The jazz musician (and fan) as character 1959-2016
  • Movies within movies & New Orleans comes back 2008-2019
  • Postscript: Print the legend.