Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist

by PhilipFuria (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $5.86

  Ira Gershwin has lived in the shadow of his brother George, with whom he collaborated in the writing of some of the most memorable American popular songs. The author makes a persuasive case for Ira Gershwin as the most important and original lyricist in American popular song , and discusses his career after the death of George Gershwin in 1937.

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $30.55

  In Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist, the older and less flamboyant of the Gershwin brothers at last steps out of the shadows to claim his due as one of American songwriting's most important and enduring innovators. Philip Furia traces the development of Ira Gershwin's lyrical art from his early love of light verse and Gilbert and Sullivan, through his apprentice work in Tin Pan Alley, to his emergence as a prominent writer during the golden era of Broadway and Hollywood musicals. He reveals how Gershwin took the everyday speech of ordinary Americans and made it sing.