Pick Yourself Up

Dorothy Fields and the American Musical
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-995863-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenspan, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Musicals
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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