Some Liked It Hot
Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928–1959
Kristin A. McGee
Wesleyan University Press
distributed by UPNE
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- JAZZ CULTURE AND ALL-GIRL FILMS
- The Feminization of Mass Culture and the Novelty of All-Girl Bands
- The Ingenues and the Harlem Playgirls
- ALL GIRL BANDS AND SOUND FILMS IN THE SWING ERA
- Phil Spitalny’s Musical Queens
- The “Blonde Bombshell of Swing”: Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears
- SOUNDIES AND FEATURES DURING THE 1940s
- Swinging the Classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood’s Musical-Racial Matrix
- Pin-ups, Patriotism, and Feminized Genres
- Swing-Centered Films and the Hour of Charm
- The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film
- VARIETY TELEVISION AND THE 1950s
- Television, Vaudeo, and Female Musical Hosts
- Variety Television Revives All-Girl Bands
- Television’s Musical Guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne
- Conclusion: The Jazz Canon (Representations and Gendered Absences)
- Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index