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Watching jazz : encounters with jazz performance on screen / edited by Björn Heile, Peter Elsdon, and Jenny Doctor.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Descriptionxiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Music
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorHeile, Björn.
Other author/creatorElsdon, Peter.
Other author/creatorDoctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references ( pages 267-282) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015031696
ISBN9780199347650 (hardcover)
ISBN9780199347667 (softcover)
ISBN9780199347674
ISBN9780199347681
ISBN9780190456825

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