From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin
Pan Alley were synonymous with American popular 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 this new 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 golden age of American popular song. Furia and Patterson
continue the tradition of great perception and understanding
established in the first edition as they explore the deft rhymes,
inventive imagery, and witty solutions these songwriters used to
breathe new life into rigidly established genres. They devote full
chapters to such greats as Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira
Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstain II, Howard Dietz, E.Y.
Harburg, Dorothy Fields, Leo Robin, and Johnny Mercer. They also
offer 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 the book places Tin Pan Alley
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.
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