Gerade ist ein neuer Band mit Essays über Sinatra und den Stellenwert seines Werks erschienen, in dem auch ein Essay zu Elvis enthalten ist.
Die beiden Herausgeberinnen Fuchs und Prigozy sind Professorinnen für Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft bzw. Anglistik an der Hofstra University, wo vor einigen Jahren eine größere Fachtagung über Sinatra stattfand.
Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend. Edited by Jeanne FUCHS and Ruth PRIGOZY. (With contributions from Blaine Allan, Samuel L. Chell, David Finck, Joseph Fioravanti, Jeanne Fuchs, Philip Furia, Roger Gilbert, Ruth Prigozy, Walter Raubicheck, Lisa J. Sagolla, Ron Simon, Arnold J. Smith, James F. Smith, Patrick M. Verrone and David Wild). University of Rochester Press, 2007. -- 165 pp, Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1580462518.
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Essays:
1. The Musical Skills of Frank Sinatra
2. Frank Sinatra's Artistry and the Question of Phrasing
3.
Hanging on a String of Dreams: Delirium and Discontent in Sinatra's Love Songs
4. Jazzin' Sinatra: three "Understated" Arrangers: George Siravo, Johnny Mandel, and Quincy Jones
5.
They Can't Take That Away from Me: Frank Sinatra and His Curious but Close Relationship with the Rock and Roll Generation
6. Dick Haymes: Sinatra Stand-In or the Real Thing?
7. Singing in the Moment: Sinatra and the Culture of the Fifties
8. Frank Sinatra Meets the Beats
9. Sinatra in (Lyrical) Drag
10. Sinatra Meets Television: A Search for Identity in Fifties America
11. Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley: The Teaming of Teen Idols and the Timex Show
12. Frank Sinatra: Dancer
13. Dancing to Sinatra: The Partnership of Music and Movement in Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite
14. From Sam Spade to Tony Rome: Bogart's Influence on Sinatra's Film Career
15. Sinatra Satire: Fifty Years of Punch Lines
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