The Poets of Tin Pan Alley
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 December 2022
- ISBN 9780190906474
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages736 pages
- Size 156x237x40 mm
- Weight 1238 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 images, 90 music examples 0
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Short description:
The classic book that first listened to the lyrics of Tin Pan Alley masters like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and the Gershwins, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley by Philip Furia is expanded and reimagined for a new generation with the collaboration of Furia's longtime collaborator, Laurie J. Patterson.
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From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley were synonymous with American popular 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 this new edition of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley, authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson offer a unique 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 and Patterson continue the tradition of great perception and understanding established in the first edition as they explore the deft rhymes, inventive imagery, and witty solutions these songwriters used to breathe new life into rigidly established genres. They devote full chapters to such greats as Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstain II, Howard Dietz, E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer. They also offer 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 the book places Tin Pan Alley 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.
[A] fascinating history of the popular lyricists....A triumph worth trumpeting.
Table of Contents:
Preface
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
14. Call Me Irresponsible: Sammy Cahn
15. The Great American Songbook
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
