{"product_id":"the-poets-of-tin-pan-alley-a-history-of-americas-great-lyricists-paperback","title":"The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Furia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Poets of Tin Pan Alley\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Furia\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePound's \"Cantos\" Declassified\u003c\/em\u003e and many articles on the relationship between American poetry and modern art and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.62 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750173114656,"sku":"9780195074734","price":100.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b41ebe3733c1845a0a35804c651102d3.webp?v=1779945072","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-poets-of-tin-pan-alley-a-history-of-americas-great-lyricists-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}