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Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz Paperback – June 24, 2011

by Todd Decker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 392 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press (June 24, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520268903
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520268906
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsANOTHER SEMINAL WORK ON THE MASTER
By Wilbourg on February 19, 2014
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Perhaps the few of us who feel that Late Astaire is the Greatest Astaire can push the rock away from our holes, come up and sun a bit. Astaire and Duke Wayne, arguably the greatest self-creations in all of the cinema, are blessed with auras that continue to fascinate scholars and just plain, old movie fans alike. And they should. The Duke may have had a limited range but who, in all Hollywood, was ever deeper? In fact he was the only Hollywood creation who could contain the weight of the whole world in his eyes when he rubs down his horse in that staggering masterpiece "The Searchers," and looks out over the horizon knowing that all he loves is being pillaged and murdered and that he is powerless to save them.

Astaire, the second great Hollywood creation, was not handsome, was not gifted with a chest that stood out like a cliff, nor did her have the radiant eyes that wooed you just by opening them. Instead he danced. Boy did he ever! The greatest ever! But did you also know that he was superb jazz-man?

There is the electrifying scene near the end of "The Sky is The Limit," that sly, under-appreciated master-work, where Fred, who feels that he has just lost the love of his life but can do nothing about it, does his greatest solo dance (and arguably the greatest solo dance put on film) and tries to dance his way out of his love's life and dance into the uncertain future of looming combat. This dance, to the tune of the towering Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer tune "One For My Baby," has thrilled fans for years and is often captured on anthologies on dance or on Fred's career.

But the breakdown of this dance, this music, this moment, has never been captured with such-behind-the-scenes mastery as Todd Decker reveals here.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt's almost too good
By BLUNT ELBOWS on October 19, 2013
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As a life long Astaire fanatic I thought I knew a lot about him. This book dispels that notion. I'm sure this will be overly detailed for the some, but I loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMusic Makes me Fred Astaire and Jazz
By vivila on November 18, 2013
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Another delightful person to read about. His dancing was wonderful, and I enjoyed seeing all the musicals that he made in the early years...
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