Motol Blues
Marcin Giżycki
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plPolish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Poland)
Abstract
The Chicago record label Chess Records, famous in the 1950s and 1960s, launched many African American artists and made the first Rolling Stones recordings in the USA. It was founded by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess (born as Lejzor and Fiszel Czyż), emigrants from Motol in Polesie, who came to Chicago in 1928. Eighty years later, two feature films were made about the label and its founder, Leonard: Cadillac Records (directed by Darnell Martin) and Who Do You Love (directed by Jerry Zaks). Giżycki focuses on the first of these works, which tells the story of the fascination of a Jewish emigre from a small shtetl on the Polish frontier with the music of black immigrants from the South of the United States. The author also takes the opportunity to straighten out a few myths, present in Polish publications, about the brothers Czyż.
Keywords:
Chess Records, Rolling Stones, Lejzor Czyż, Fiszel CzyżReferences
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Authors
Marcin Giżyckikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology Poland
Krytyk i historyk sztuki; autor książek z dziedziny historii filmu i zjawisk kultury artystycznej. Wykładowca w Rhode Island School of Design w USA, profesor w Polsko-Japońskiej Akademii Technik Komputerowych w Warszawie. Opublikował m.in. Nie tylko Disney - rzecz o kinie animowanym (2000), Koniec i co dalej? (2001), Słownik kierunków, ruchów i kluczowych pojęć sztuki drugiej połowy XX wieku (2002), Wenders do domu! Europejskie filmy o Ameryce i ich recepcja w Stanach Zjednoczonych (2006).
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