04740nam 2200781Ia 450 991081440350332120200520144314.00-19-028190-11-280-52618-10-19-802288-31-4294-0747-6(CKB)1000000000465876(SSID)ssj0000364452(PQKBManifestationID)12082181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364452(PQKBWorkID)10395883(PQKB)10496506(MiAaPQ)EBC273135(Au-PeEL)EBL273135(CaPaEBR)ebr10279162(CaONFJC)MIL52618(OCoLC)476014884(MiAaPQ)EBC2033525(Au-PeEL)EBL2033525(OCoLC)505073104(OCoLC)797359738(FINmELB)ELB170807(EXLCZ)99100000000046587619920515d1992 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe poets of Tin Pan Alley a history of America's great lyricists /Philip Furia1st ed.New York Oxford University Press1992x, 322 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-506408-9 0-19-507473-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah Love: Alley Standards -- 2. After the Ball: Early Alley -- 3. Ragged Meter Man: Irving Berlin -- 4. Ragged and Funny: Lyricists of the 1920s -- 5. Funny Valentine: Lorenz Hart -- 6. 'S Wonderful: Ira Gershwin -- 7. The Tinpantithesis of Poetry: Cole Porter -- 8. Conventional Dithers: Oscar Hammerstein -- 9. Paper Moons: Howard Dietz and Yip Harburg -- 10. Fine Romances: Dorothy Fields and Leo Robin -- 11. Hip, Hooray, and Ballyhoo: Hollywood Lyricists -- 12. Swingy Harlem Tunes: Jazz Lyricists -- 13. Midnight Sun: Johnny Mercer -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart--even today these giants remain household names, their musicals regularly revived, their methods and styles analyzed and imitated, and their songs the bedrock of jazz and cabaret. In The Poets of Tin Pan Alley Philip Furia offers a unique new perspective on these great songwriters, showing how their poetic lyrics were as important as their brilliant music in shaping a golden age of American popular song. 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. He devotes full chapters to all the greats, including Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstain II, Howard Dietz, E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer. Furia also offers a comprehensive survey of other lyricists who wrote for the sheet-music industry, Broadway, Hollywood, and Harlem nightclub revues. This was the era that produced The New Yorker, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, and E.B. White--and Furia places the lyrics firmly in this fascinating historical context. 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.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismSongs, EnglishUnited StatesHistory and criticismPopular literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticismPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPopular musicUnited StatesHistory and criticismLyric poetryHistory and criticismLyricistsUnited StatesAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Songs, EnglishHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.Popular cultureHistoryPopular musicHistory and criticism.Lyric poetryHistory and criticism.Lyricists782.42164/026/8782.421640922Furia Philip1943-1633488MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814403503321The poets of Tin Pan Alley3973250UNINA