Praeger. New with no dust jacket. Date: 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0275973018 . Book New. Printed boards without a DJ as issued by Praeger. NO notes or underlining. No names or ANY markings. ; 227 pages . 2002. Praeger ISBN 0275973018 9780275973018 [US]

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ISBN10: 0275973018, ISBN13: 9780275973018, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Jazz has been associated with crime and immorality since early forms of the music were heard in the brothels of New Orleans and the gangster-owned clubs of the 1920s. This association encouraged the use of jazz in film noir, a genre preoccupied with tales of anxiety and urban decay, which flourished in American cinema during the postwar period. Yet, although the extent and nature of this collaboration has often been alluded to, it has rarely been examined in detail. Making significant use of archival sources and documentation, Jazz Noir seeks to correct this oversight, placing the films discussed in their proper historical context and utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that gives equal weight to the films-including such notables as Phantom Lady, I Want to Live!, and Taxi Driver-and to the indelible music that accompanied them.In so doing, it corrects a great many misunderstandings about this complex, ideologically tinged relationship. Television noirs of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the cinematic neo-noirs of the 1990s, have used jazz and jazz-flavored music extensively, thus giving rise to the misconception that the genre and the musical style were always intertwined. But as author David Butler reveals, it was only when modern jazz had a number of prominent white exponents that it gained any kind of exposure in ...
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