Contents

• Jazz culture and all-girls films. The feminization of mass culture and the novelty of all-girl bands
• The Ingenues and the Harlem Playgirls
• All-girl bands and sound films in the swing era. Phil Spitalny’s Musical Queens
• The "blonde bombshell of swing": Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears
• Soundies and features during the 1940s. Swinging the classics: Hazel Scott and Hollywood’s musical -racial matrix
• Pinups, patriotism, and feminized genres
• Swing-centered films and the hour of charm
• The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and independent black sound film
• Variety television and the 1950s. Television, vaudeo, and female musical hosts
• Variety television revives all-girl bands
• Television’s musical guests: Hazel Scott, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne
• Conclusion : the jazz canon (representations and gendered absences)