Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all
too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their
male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot looks at all-girl bands and jazz
women from the 1920s through the 1950s and how they fit into the nascent
mass culture, particularly film and television, to uncover some of the
historical motivations for excluding women from the now firmly
established jazz canon. This well-illustrated book chronicles who
appeared where and when in over 80 performances, captured in both
popular Hollywood productions and in relatively unknown films and
television shows.
As McGee shows, these performances reflected
complex racial attitudes emerging in American culture during the first
half of the twentieth century. Her analysis illuminates the heavily
mediated representational strategies that jazz women adopted,
highlighting the role that race played in constituting public
performances of various styles of jazz from "swing" to "hot" and
"sweet." The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Hazel Scott, the
Ingenues, Peggy Lee, and Paul Whiteman are just a few of the performers
covered in the book, which also includes a detailed filmography.
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