{"product_id":"the-poets-of-tin-pan-alley-a-history-of-americas-great-lyricists","title":"The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists","description":"\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44957242359861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195064089","price":50.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195064087.jpg?v=1770326334","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-poets-of-tin-pan-alley-a-history-of-americas-great-lyricists","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}