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An Excursion into the Lower Depths: Hollywood, Urban Primitivism, and St. Louis Blues, 1929-1937

2002; University of Texas Press; Volume: 41; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/cj.2002.0004

1527-2087

Peter Stanfield,

Music History and Culture

This essay considers how Hollywood presented the song St. Louis Blues in a number of movies during the early to mid-1930s. It argues that the tune's history and accumulated use in films enabled Hollywood to employ it in an increasingly complex manner to evoke essential questions about female sexuality, class, and race.