• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: On the Scenic Route toIrving Berlin's Holiday Inn(1942)
  • Beteiligte: Decker, Todd
  • Erschienen: University of California Press, 2011
  • Erschienen in: The Journal of Musicology, 28 (2011) 4, Seite 464-497
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1525/jm.2011.28.4.464
  • ISSN: 0277-9269; 1533-8347
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  • Beschreibung: This study ofIrving Berlin's Holiday Inn(Paramount, 1942) considers the collaboration of the film's four primary creative figures: Irving Berlin, Mark Sandrich, Bing Crosby, and Fred Astaire. Extracted from a wide array of production materials, the story of the making ofHoliday Inndemonstrates how archival research can address questions of broad scholarly interest, such as large-scale form, star personas, musical style, musical-dramatic integration, the representation of blackness and African American characters, and political meaning in popular-culture products. Examining details of the film's production history sheds particular light upon the function of songs and musical routines as quasi-autonomous parts of the whole.