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Pick Yourself Up

Dorothy Fields and the American Musical

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvCharlotte Greenspan

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Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete treatment of Fields's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world. Born in 1904 into a show business family - her father, Lou Fields, was a famed stage comedian turned Broadway producer - Fields first teamed with songwriter Jimmy McHugh in the late 1920s and went on to a series of Hollywood collaborations with Jerome Kern, including the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic Swing Time. With her brother Herbert, she co-authored the books for several of Cole Porter's shows and for Irving Berlin's classic Annie Get Your Gun. Fields's lyrics - colloquial, urbane, sometimes slangy, sometimes sensuous - won her high praise from later generations of songwriters including Stephen Sondheim, and her stellar career opened a path for other women in her profession, among them Betty Comden and Dory Previn.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-01-31
Mått155 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBroadway Legacies
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199958634
UtmärkelserWinner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award

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Preface ; A Note About the Lyrics ; Chapter One: The World of Her Father ; Chapter Two: The World of Her Family ; Chapter Three: The Teen Years ; Chapter Four: Marriage and the Start of a Career ; Chapter Five: What's Black and White and Heard All Over? ; Chapter Six: Give My Refrains to Broadway ; Chapter Seven: Hello to Hollywood ; Chapter Eight: Change Partners and Write ; Chapter Nine: The Best of Hollywood ; Chapter Ten: End of an Era ; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Through a Broadway Lens ; Chapter Twelve: Librettos Instead of Lyrics ; Chapter Thirteen: Up In Central Park ; Chapter Fourteen: Annie Get Your Gun ; Chapter Fifteen: More Movies ; Chapter Sixteen: Colonial America and Brooklyn ; Chapter Seventeen: Something Old, Something New ; Chapter Eighteen: Sweet Charity ; Chapter Nineteen: "It's Where You Finish" ; Appendix One: List of Songs ; Appendix Two: List of Theatre Works and Movies ; Notes

This marvelously researched and highly readable book is the definitive account of Dorothy Fields's path-breaking career-and of its interactions with her famously accomplished family (Weber and Fields), colleagues (Rodgers and Hammerstein), and collaborators (Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Bob Fosse, Cy Coleman). Greenspan's thoughtful analyses, her lively exploration of historical mysteries, and her grasp of both Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1970s make this chunk of Americana irresistible, both for song lovers and for scholars.