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The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists Oxford Paperbacks



The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists Oxford Paperbacks
This book is about the poets who wrote the lyrics for Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th century. These poets were very influential in shaping American popular music and their work is still popular today. Furia writes with great perception and understanding of these poets and their work. He devotes full chapters to all the greats, including Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar... more details
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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of the key poets and their work in Tin Pan Alley
  • Examines the impact of their lyrics on American popular music
  • Provides a historical context for their work


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Author Philip Furia
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780195074734
Publication Date 24/02/1994
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Manufacturer Oxford University Press Inc
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This book is about the poets who wrote the lyrics for Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th century. These poets were very influential in shaping American popular music and their work is still popular today. Furia writes with great perception and understanding of these poets and their work. He devotes full chapters to all the greats, including Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Dietz and E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Fields and 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. Furia places the lyrics firmly in this fascinating historical context. In these pages, the lyrics emerge as an imporant element of American modernism, as the lyricists, like the great modernist poets, took the American vernacular and made it sing.

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 nd E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Fields and 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 imporant element of American modernism, as the lyricists, like the great modernist poets, took the American vernacular and made it sing.

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