Body and Soul: Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63 - Peter Stanfield - Google Books

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Writing in the late 1930s, New York journalist Joseph Mitchell observed: "Except for the minstrel show, the strip act is probably America's only original contribution to the theater." In Body and Soul, Peter Stanfield's arguments echo Mitchell's…