The Poets of Tin Pan Alley

  • The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists
    By Philip Furia

    A history of the American lyricists who worked in the popular music industry, known as Tin Pan Alley, in the years between World War I and World War II.

  • The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists
    By Philip Furia

    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.

  • The Poets of Tin Pan Alley
    By Philip Furia, Laurie J. Patterson

    Patricia Ziegfeld, The Ziegfelds' Girl (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964), 183. 97. Philip Furia, “Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 265: American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960, ed.

  • The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists
    By Philip Furia

    Berlin's greatest rhythmic song of all, however, was written not for a Broadway revue but a Hollywood movie, Puttin' on the Ritz, in 1930. The title song carries the principle of lyrical ragging to the furthest possible extreme, ...

  • The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists
    By Philip Furia, Laurie Patterson

    In this second edition of 'The Poets of Tin Pan Alley', authors Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson offer a unique perspective on these great songwriters, showing how their poetic lyrics were as important as their brilliant music in shaping a ...