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9780520260375 | Univ of California Pr, February 8, 2016, cover price $34.95
Product Description: With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound...read more
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9780813547312 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound.
Paperback:
9780813547329 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound.
Product Description: A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture. Before that moment, the trumpet had been a regimental staple in marching bands, a ceremonial accessory for royalty, and an occasional diva at the symphony...read more
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9780571211999 | Faber & Faber, October 28, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a trumpet and transformed American culture.
Product Description: Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between...read more
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9780813543406 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film.
Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly performed by African Americans? And why do so many white actors imitate black people when they wish to express strong emotion?As Krin Gabbard brilliantly reveals in Black Magic, we duly recognize the cultural heritage of African Americans in literature, music, and art, but there is a disturbing pattern in the roles that blacks are asked to play-particularly in the movies. Many recent films, including The Matrix, Fargo, The Green Mile, Ghost, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Pleasantville, The Bridges of Madison County, and Crumb, reveal a fascination with black music and sexuality even as they preserve the old racial hierarchies. Quite often the dependence on African American culture remains hidden-although it is almost perversely pervasive. In the final chapters of Black Magic, Gabbard looks at films by Robert Altman and Spike Lee that attempt to reverse many of these widespread trends.
Hardcover:
9780813533834 | Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $62.00
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9780813533841 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers?
Hardcover:
9780880488266 | 2 sub edition (Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $42.95
9780226277905 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $24.95 | also contains The Encyclopedia of the Roman Army | About this edition: Surveys the history of the treatment of psychiatry in movies and provides psychoanalytical analyses of a variety of films
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9780880489645 | 2 edition (Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $49.95
9780226277912 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Surveys the history of the treatment of psychiatry in movies and provides psychoanalytical analyses of a variety of films
Product Description: American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself...read more
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9780226277882 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 1996, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians.
Paperback:
9780226277899 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 1996, cover price $32.00
Product Description: The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz...read more
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9780822315810 | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology.
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9780822315964 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology.
Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and photographers. Representing Jazz explores the "other" history of jazz created by these artists, a history that tells us as much about the meaning of the music as do the many books that narrate the lives of musicians or describe their recordings.Krin Gabbard has gathered essays by distinguished writers from a variety of fields. They provide engaging analyses of films such as Round Midnight, Bird, Moâ Better Blues, Cabin in the Sky, and Jamminâ the Blues; the writings of Eudora Welty and Dorothy Baker; the careers of the great lindy hoppers of the 1930s and 1940s; Mura Dehnâs extraordinary documentary on jazz dance; the jazz photography of William Claxton; painters of the New York School; the traditions of jazz autobiography; and the art of "vocalese." The contributors to this volume assess the influence of extramusical sources on our knowledge of jazz and suggest that the living contexts of the music must be considered if a more sophisticated jazz scholarship is ever to evolve. Transcending the familiar patterns of jazz history and criticism, Representing Jazz looks at how the music actually has been heard and felt at different levels of American culture.With its companion anthology, Jazz Among the Discourses, this volume will enrich and transform the literature of jazz studies. Its provocative essays will interest both aficionados and potential jazz fans.Contributors. Karen Backstein, Leland H. Chambers, Robert P. Crease, Krin Gabbard, Frederick Garber, Barry K. Grant, Mona Hadler, Christopher Harlos, Michael Jarrett, Adam Knee, Arthur Knight, James Naremore
Hardcover:
9780822315797 | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players.
Paperback:
9780822315940 | Duke Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
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