Table of Contents: Some liked it hot

Main Author:	McGee, Kristin A.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2009.
Series:	Music/culture
Subjects:	Women jazz musicians in motion pictures. Big bands in motion pictures. Jazz in motion pictures. Motion pictures > History > 20th century. > United States Television broadcasting of music. Variety shows (Television programs) > United States.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10468405

Table of Contents:

Jazz culture and all-girls films. The feminization of mass culture and the novelty of all-girl bands
The Ingenues and the Harlem Playgirls
All-girl bands and sound films in the swing era. Phil Spitalny's Musical Queens
The "blonde bombshell of swing": Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears
Soundies and features during the 1940s. Swinging the classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix
Pinups, patriotism, and feminized genres
Swing-centered films and the hour of charm
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and independent black sound film
Variety television and the 1950s. Television, vaudeo, and female musical hosts
Variety television revives all-girl bands
Television's musical guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne
Conclusion : the jazz canon (representations and gendered absences).