LEADER 04672nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910814403503321 005 20240410122123.0 010 $a0-19-028190-1 010 $a1-280-52618-1 010 $a0-19-802288-3 010 $a1-4294-0747-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465876 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000364452 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12082181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364452 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395883 035 $a(PQKB)10496506 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC273135 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL273135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279162 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52618 035 $a(OCoLC)476014884 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2033525 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2033525 035 $a(OCoLC)505073104 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465876 100 $a19920515d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe poets of Tin Pan Alley $ea history of America's great lyricists /$fPhilip Furia 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1992 215 $ax, 322 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-506408-9 311 $a0-19-507473-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSongs, English$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular literature$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPopular music$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLyricists$zUnited States 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSongs, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aPopular music$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLyricists 676 $a782.42164/026/8 676 $a782.421640922 700 $aFuria$b Philip$f1943-$01633488 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814403503321 996 $aThe poets of Tin Pan Alley$93973250 997 $aUNINA