Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema

by Krin Gabbard

Book Overview

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. In Jammin' at the Margins, Gabbard scrutinizes these films, exploring the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226277895
• ISBN13: 9780226277899
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"