Pick yourself up : Dorothy Fields and the American musical / Charlotte Greenspan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenspan, Charlotte Joyce, 1941-

Series:

Broadway legacies.

Broadway legacies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyricists--United States--Biography.

Lyricists.

Librettists--United States--Biography.

Librettists.

Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974.

Fields, Dorothy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dorothy Fields first became prominent writing the lyrics for Cotton Club shows in Harlem in the late 1920s and 1930s. Her role as a music creator in a world dominated by men makes a fascinating and unusual story. Greenspan further discusses Fields in relation to other women songwriters and lyricists of the time.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; A Note about the Lyrics; 1: The World of Her Father; 2: The World of Her Family; 3: The Teen Years; 4: Marriage and the Start of a Career; 5: What's Black and White and Heard All Over?; 6: Give My Refrains to Broadway; 7: Hello to Hollywood; 8: Change Partners and Write; 9: The Best of Hollywood; 10: End of an Era; 11: Hollywood through a Broadway Lens; 12: Librettos Instead of Lyrics; 13: Up in Central Park; 14: Annie Get Your Gun; 15: More Movies; 16: Colonial America and Brooklyn; 17: Something Old, Something New; 18: Sweet Charity

19: "It's Where You Finish . . . "Appendix 1: List of Songs; Appendix 2: List of Theater Works and Movies; Notes; Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Photos follow page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-977979-1

0-19-995863-7

0-19-972308-7

1-282-73131-9

9786612731310

OCLC:

922970067