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The poets of Tin Pan Alley : a history of America's great lyricists /

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 imitate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Furia, Philip, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.