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- Title
REINVENTING BIRD: THE EVOLVING IMAGE OF CHARLIE PARKER ON FILM.
- Authors
McCombe, John P.
- Abstract
The article presents demonstrates how the jazz film genre can reinvent itself by exploring two key issues raised by Kenneth Spence: the role that a larger African American community played in the development of Charlie Parker's music, as well as the segregation and racism that often contributed to the jazzman's drug addiction and early demise. As Donald Bogle writes, the greatest failing of Bird is that it cannot set up an African American cultural context for its central character.
- Subjects
MOTION pictures; FILM genres; JAZZ; SPENCE, Kenneth; AFRICAN Americans
- Publication
Post Script, 2005, Vol 25, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0277-9897
- Publication type
Article