Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen (2014)
Compared to the total number of film noir productions, those with a jazz soundtrack or jazz music, serving as the
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Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams… by Andrew S. Berish (2012)
Now, here is a really clever idea on how to research a jazz-related topic and not to approach it entirely
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Affirmation and Resistance: The Politics of the Jazz Life … by Alexander J. Beissenhirtz (2012)
Some typical settings of the jazz novel are the nightclub, the practicing room or the studio, since – as the
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Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture by Phil Ford (2013)
While collecting symptoms of a possible breakdown of society, proof of which can easily be found by simply watching reality
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Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald… by Anthony J. Berret (2013)
The similarities in the plots of many 1920s Broadway shows and Fitzgerald’s short fiction of the time gives way to
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American Allegory: Lindy Hop And The Racial Imagination by Black Hawk Hancock (2013)
As you may have realized the Lindy Hop, that unique American social dance originating in the late 1920s US when
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Sounding Real: Musicality and American Fiction… by Cristina L. Ruotolo (2013)
For those familiar with the work of author Ruotolo, this book comes with little surprise. Her article on James Weldon
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