Heile, Bjorn – Watching Jazz

Description

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media, covering its role across a plethora of technologies from film and television to recent developments in online media, and featuring the music of such legends as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Pat Metheny.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Jenny Doctor, Peter Elsdon, Bjorn Heile
Shaping Screen Media
1. Framing Jazz: Thoughts on Representation and Embodiment Peter Elsdon
2. All Aboard!: Soundies and Vitaphone Shorts Emile Wennekes
3. Assimilating and Domesticating Jazz in 1950s American Variety Television: Nat King Cole’s Transformation from Guest Star to National Host Kristin McGee
4. Jazz Is Where You Find It: Encountering Jazz on BBC Television, 1946-66, Jenny Doctor
Gesture and Mediatization
5. All Sights Were Perceived as Sounds Pat Metheny and the Instrumental Image, Jonathan De Souza
6. Jazz Performance on Screen: Mediatization of Gesture, Bodily Empathy, and the Viewing Experience, Paul McIntyre
7. Playing the Clown: Charles Mingus, Jimmy Knepper, and Jerry Maguire, Krin Gabbard
Ontologies of Media
8. Seeking Resolution: John Coltrane, Myth, and the Audio-Visual, Tony Whyton
9. Screening the Event: Watching Miles Davis’s My Funny Valentine, Nicholas Gebhardt
10. Play it again, Duke: Jazz Performance, Improvisation, and the Construction of Spontaneity, Bjorn Heile
Selected Resources
Author Biographies
Index