Pick Yourself Up

Dorothy Fields and the American Musical

Charlotte Greenspan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-995863-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Charlotte Greenspan is a musicologist and pianist who has written extensively on music and film. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2013
Reihe/Serie	Broadway Legacies
Zusatzinfo	22 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	0-19-995863-7 / 0199958637
ISBN-13	978-0-19-995863-4 / 9780199958634
Zustand	Neuware