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Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image
Nicolas Pillai
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Description for Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 bw integrated. BIC Classification: APF; AVGJ; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
International Library of the Moving Image
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784533441
SKU
V9781784533441
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About Nicolas Pillai
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image
Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image [is] an especially pertinent and timely intervention into jazz scholarship and film theory simultaneously. [...] Pillai's written account of jazz and visual media proves transformative in its own right, contributing much to the study of jazz, television and film music studies.
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