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Music makes me: Fred Astaire and jazz

Todd R. Decker
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART ONE. ASTAIRE AMONG OTHERS
    • 1. "There's a difference and Astaire is it" (page 21)
    • 2. "I am a creator" (page 53)
  • PART TWO. ASTAIRE AT THE STUDIOS
    • 3. "I play with the very best bands" (page 99)
    • 4. "Tell them to let it swing" (page 115)
    • 5. "Fixing up" tunes (page 128)
  • PART THREE. ASTAIRE IN JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC
    • 6. "Keep time with the time and with the times" (page 169)
    • 7. "Jazz means the blues" (page 217)
    • 8. "Something that'll send me" (page 246)
    • 9. "You play and I'll dance" (page 271)
  • Conclusion (page 311)
  • Notes (page 327)
  • References (page 347)
  • Acknowledgments (page 357)
  • Permissions (page 361)
  • Index (page 363)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
Notes 69.2 (2012): 329-330 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23358761
THR 65.2 (2012): 293-299 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23241434
FH 42.2 (fall 2012): 83-86 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/490421
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Published: c2011
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520950061 (ebook)
  • 9780520268906 (paper)
  • 9780520268883 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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