Jazz as Visual Language

Film, Television and the Dissonant Image

AvNicolas Pillai

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This book provides a timely analysis of the relationship between jazz and recording and broadcast technologies in the early twentieth century. Jazz histories have traditionally privileged qualities such as authenticity, naturalness and spontaneity, but to do so overlooks jazz's status as a modernist, mechanised art form that evolved alongside the moving image and visual cultures. Jazz as Visual Language shows that the moving image is crucial to our understanding of what the materiality of jazz really is. Focusing on Len Lye's direct animation, Gjon Mili's experimental footage of musicians performing and the BBC's Jazz 625 series, this book places emphasis on film and television that conveys the 'sound of surprise' through formal innovation, rather than narrative structure. Nicolas Pillai seeks to refine a critical vocabulary of jazz and visual culture whilst arguing that jazz was never just a new sound; it was also a new way of seeing the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-15
Mått:144 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury 3PL
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781784533441

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Filmmusik, musikaler och teatermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Nicolas Pillai is a research fellow in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the co-editor of Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz & Comics (2016) and New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice (2017). He has contributed chapters to Gender and Identity in Jazz (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (2017), as well as articles in journals such as The Soundtrack and Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism. He has also written an essay for the booklet included in the BFI dual format Blu-ray/DVD release of Paris Blues (1961).

Recensioner i media

This is a thought-provoking book that addresses a fascinating and still under-researched topic, and will be of great value to scholars working interested in film, television or jazz studies. More widely, though, it will be an engaging read for anybody with an interest in how jazz is represented in the broadcast media, and how this representation can influence our own definitions of jazz.