| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 322 pages) |
| Contents |
Bhah, blah, blah, blah love: Alley standards -- After the ball: early Alley -- Ragged meter man: Irving Berlin -- Ragged and funny: lyricists of the 1920s -- Funny valentine: Lorenz Hart -- 'S wonderful: Ira Gershwin -- The Tinpantithesis of poetry: Cole Porter -- Conventional dithers: Oscar Hammerstein -- Paper moons: Howard Dietz and Yip Harburg -- Fine romances: Dorothy Fields and Leo Robin -- Hip, hooray, and ballyhoo: Hollywood lyricists -- Swingy Harlem tunes: jazz lyricists -- Midnight sun: Johnny Mercer |
| Summary |
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. Furia shows how their poetic lyrics were as important as their brilliant music to shaping a golden age of American popular songs.-Derived from book jacket |
| Analysis |
Popular music Songs |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism
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Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism
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Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
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Lyricists -- United States
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General.
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American poetry.
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Lyric poetry.
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Lyricists.
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Popular culture.
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Popular literature.
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Popular music.
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Songs, English.
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Dichters.
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Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Chansons anglaises -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
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Musique populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
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Schlager.
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United States.
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USA
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États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198022886 |
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0198022883 |
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