Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to the Last Seduction

by David Butler

Book Overview

Jazz has been associated with crime and immorality since early forms of the music were heard in the brothels of New Orleans and the gangster-owned clubs of the 1920s. This association encouraged the use of jazz in film noir, a genre preoccupied with tales of anxiety and urban decay, which flourished in American cinema during the postwar period. Yet, although the extent and nature of this collaboration has often been alluded to, it has rarely been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275973018
• ISBN13: 9780275973018
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"