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| Title | : | The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists (Oxford Paperbacks) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195074734 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Anne Salazar said SING ALONG WITH THIS ONE, FOR SURE!!. I loved this book!! I picked it up somewhere, and sang inside my head on almost every single page! It is a terrific overview of the Tin Pan Alley days of GREAT music, and in this book Philip Furia has provided enough lyrics to remind us of all the songs, and it is great fun to read. I marked up my copy, and then had to buy another, clean copy to re-read. This contains some great information. Noreen S. Chase 30's through 50's music is my passion. This contains some great information.. Five Stars Stephen C Bentley Very pleased with book.
Furia, a Univeristy of Minnesota professor of English, perceptively assesses the styles and careers of such masters of light verse as Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Howard Dietz, Yip Harburg and Al Dubin, and of two--Irving Berlin and Cole Porter--who were proficient in both words and music. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. . He concludes with an anomaly, the country boy of Savannah, Johnny Mercer, whose blend of earthiness and elegant urbanity made him one of the few lyricists who could skillfully set to words the jazz melodies of Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington. From Publishers Weekly America's greatest tunes were composed by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers, among others, but, as this popular/critical survey demonstrates, those who wrote the words for th
This was the era that produced The NewYorker, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, and E.B. In these pages, the lyrics emerge as an important element of American modernism, as the lyricists, like the great modernist poets, took the American vernacular and made it sing.. Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer. From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Furia also offers a comprehensive survey of other lyricists who wrote for the sheet-music industry, Broadway, Hollywood, and Harlem nightclub revues. Furia writes with great perception and understanding as he explores the deft rhymes, inventive imagery, and witty solutions these songwriters used to breathe new life into rigidly established genres. White--and Furia places the lyrics firmly in this fascinating historical context. H
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