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- catalog abstract "Ranging from fond reflection to interview-and-commentary to close critical analysis, Giddins explores the achievements of 37 artists: show people, divas, musicians, and writers, ranging from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holiday to Kay Starr, Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Elias Canetti to Philip Roth.".
- catalog contributor b3801119.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "I. Show people. "This guy wouldn't give you the parsley off his fish" [Jack Benny] -- The 100 years of Irving Berlin -- Sometimes he wondered [Hoagy Carmichael] -- Prince Charmless [Samuel Goldwyn] --Perfect [Myrna Loy] -- Birdman of Hollywood [Clint Eastwood] -- Spiked Jazz [Spike Lee] -- Buffalo Bob and the Van Goghs [Robert Altman] -- II. Divas. Lady gets her due [Billie Holiday] -- First Lady [Ella Fitzgerald] -- A Starr is reborn [Kay Starr] -- The once and future Queen [Dinah Washington] -- Divine [Sarah Vaughan].".
- catalog description "III. Players. Stachmo's nursery [Louis Armstrong] -- King of the Savoy [Chick Webb] -- The mirror of swing [Benny Goodman] -- Ghost stories [Larry Adler] -- The wizard of Bop [Frank Morgan] -- Of Thad and Mel [Thad Jones and Mel Lewis] -- Juilliard dropout makes good [Miles Davis] --Giant walks the earth [Sonny Rollins] -- Dizzy like a fox [Dizzy Gillespie] -- IV. Writers. Hard-boiled [James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Elmore Leonard] -- The jilting of Katherine Anne Porter -- Vlad the impaler [Vladimir Nabokow] -- A face in the crowd [Elias Canetti] -- Scat song [Kurt Vonnegut] -- Zuckerman strikes back [Philip Roth] -- Senses and sensibility [Eudora Welty] -- Appendectomy [William Faulker] -- Fathers and son [Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Gunther Schuller].".
- catalog description "Ranging from fond reflection to interview-and-commentary to close critical analysis, Giddins explores the achievements of 37 artists: show people, divas, musicians, and writers, ranging from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holiday to Kay Starr, Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Elias Canetti to Philip Roth.".
- catalog extent "x, 278 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Faces in the crowd.".
- catalog identifier "0195054881".
- catalog isFormatOf "Faces in the crowd.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Faces in the crowd.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "700/.973/0904 20".
- catalog subject "Arts, American 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Arts, American.".
- catalog subject "Arts, Modern 20th century United States.".
- catalog subject "NX504 .G5 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Show people. "This guy wouldn't give you the parsley off his fish" [Jack Benny] -- The 100 years of Irving Berlin -- Sometimes he wondered [Hoagy Carmichael] -- Prince Charmless [Samuel Goldwyn] --Perfect [Myrna Loy] -- Birdman of Hollywood [Clint Eastwood] -- Spiked Jazz [Spike Lee] -- Buffalo Bob and the Van Goghs [Robert Altman] -- II. Divas. Lady gets her due [Billie Holiday] -- First Lady [Ella Fitzgerald] -- A Starr is reborn [Kay Starr] -- The once and future Queen [Dinah Washington] -- Divine [Sarah Vaughan].".
- catalog tableOfContents "III. Players. Stachmo's nursery [Louis Armstrong] -- King of the Savoy [Chick Webb] -- The mirror of swing [Benny Goodman] -- Ghost stories [Larry Adler] -- The wizard of Bop [Frank Morgan] -- Of Thad and Mel [Thad Jones and Mel Lewis] -- Juilliard dropout makes good [Miles Davis] --Giant walks the earth [Sonny Rollins] -- Dizzy like a fox [Dizzy Gillespie] -- IV. Writers. Hard-boiled [James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Elmore Leonard] -- The jilting of Katherine Anne Porter -- Vlad the impaler [Vladimir Nabokow] -- A face in the crowd [Elias Canetti] -- Scat song [Kurt Vonnegut] -- Zuckerman strikes back [Philip Roth] -- Senses and sensibility [Eudora Welty] -- Appendectomy [William Faulker] -- Fathers and son [Martin Williams, Whitney Balliett, Gunther Schuller].".
- catalog title "Faces in the crowd : players and writers / Gary Giddins.".
- catalog type "text".