Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
Jans B. Wager, "Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir"
English | ISBN: 1477312269 | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 1477312269 | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the seduction and risks of the mean streets in early film noir. As working jazz musicians began to compose the scores for and appear in noir films of the 1950s, black musicians found a unique way of asserting their right to participate fully in American life.
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