The poets of Tin Pan Alley : a history of America's great lyricists / by Furia, Philip, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Bhah, blah, blah, blah love: Alley standards -- After the ball: early Alley -- Ragged meter man: Irving Berlin -- Ragged and funny: lyricists of the 1920s -- Funny valentine: Lorenz Hart -- 'S wonderful: Ira Gershwin -- The Tinpantithesis of poetry: Cole Porter -- Conventional dithers: Oscar Hammerstein -- Paper moons: Howard Dietz and Yip Harburg -- Fine romances: Dorothy Fields and Leo Robin -- Hip, hooray, and ballyhoo: Hollywood lyricists -- Swingy Harlem tunes: jazz lyricists -- Midnight sun: Johnny Mercer.…”
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Staging desire : queer readings of American theater history /

Table of Contents: “…Harbin -- Let's do it: the layered life of Cole Porter / Mark Fearnow -- Lorenz Hart: this can't be love / Jeffrey Smart -- Dorothy's friend in Kansas: the gay inflections of William Inge / Albert Wertheim -- "Appealing to the passions": homoerotic desire and nineteenth-century theater criticism / Lisa Merrill -- "That's the kind of gal I am": drag balls, lulu belles, and "sexual perversion" in the Harlem renaissance / James Wilson -- The gay man as thinker: Eric Bentley's many closets / Daniel-Raymond Nadon -- The electric fairy: the woman behind the apparition of Loie Fuller / Bud Coleman -- "Not as other boys": Robert Edmond Jones and designs of desire / Jane T. …”
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