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.
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.
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.
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, ...
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 ...