Jazz and Cocktails : : Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir / / Jans B. Wager.
Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in early film noir. As working jazz musicians began to compo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Introduction. Nostalgia for the Lush Life
- Chapter One. Pie Eye’s Juke Joint: Jazz and Its Interpretations
- Chapter Two. The Porters and Waiters Club: Jazz, Movies, and Ogden
- Chapter Three. Studio Jazz from Harlem to Acapulco
- Chapter Four. The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel’s: Charting the Alienation Effect in Film Noir
- Chapter Five. From Elysian to Robards, from Real to Reel
- Chapter Six. A Paris Bar Where Miles Innovates
- Chapter Seven. “All the Very Gay Places”: Ellington and Strayhorn Swing in Northern Michigan
- Chapter Eight. Cannoy’s Club: “All Men Are Evil”
- Chapter Nine. “Jeep’s Blues” and Jazz Today
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index