Research Catalog

Title

Frank Sinatra : the man, the music, the legend / edited by Jeanne Fuchs and Ruth Prigozy.

Publication

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press ; [Hempstead, NY] : Hofstra University, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fuchs, Jeanne.
• Prigozy, Ruth.

Description

xii, 165 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at a conference at Hofstra University.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes discography (p. [147]), bibliographical references (p. [149]-153), and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Sinatra and his music -- 1. The musical skills of Frank Sinatra / David Finck -- 2. Frank Sinatra's artistry and the question of phrasing / Samuel L. Chell -- 3. Hanging on a string of dreams : delirium and discontent in Sinatra's love songs / Joseph Fioravanti -- 4. Jazzin' Sinatra : three "understated" arrangers - George Siravo, Johnny Mandel, and Quincy Jones / Arnold Jay Smith -- 5. They can't take that away from me : Frank Sinatra and his curious but close relationship with the rock 'n' roll generation / David Wild -- 6. Dick Haymes : Sinatra stand-in or the real thing? / Ruth Prigozy -- Pt. 2. Sinatra and popular culture -- 7. Singing in the moment : Sinatra and the culture of the fifties / Roger Gilbert -- 8. Frank Sinatra meets the beats / Blaine Allan -- 9. Sinatra in (lyrical) drag / Philip Furia -- 10. Sinatra meets television : a search for identity in fifties America / Ron Simon -- 11. Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley : the taming of teen idols and the timex show / James F. Smith -- 12. Frank Sinatra : dancer / Jeanne Fuchs -- 13. Dancing to Sinatra : the partnership of music and movement in Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite / Lisa Jo Sagolla -- 14. From Sam Spade to Tony Rome : Bogart's influence on Sinatra's film career / Walter Raubicheck -- 15. Sinatra satire : fifty years of punch lines / Patric M. Verrone.

ISBN

• 9781580462518
• 1580462510

LCCN

2006039826

OCLC

• OCM76871482
• 76871482
• SCSB-5339122

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries