Michael G. Garber

Songs She Wrote

Forty Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music

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Produktbeschreibung

Songs She Wrote explores the often-neglected legacies of female songwriters behind classic hits that make up the Great American Songbook. This book celebrates the contributions of these remarkable women, diving into their fascinating lives and revealing intriguing stories behind the songs, and places them within their historical times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781538158654
• ISBN-10: 1538158655
• Artikelnr.: 71726691

Autorenporträt

Michael G. Garber is an internationally respected expert on Tin Pan Alley and the American musical on stage and screen. He was a research fellow of the University of Winchester and the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He is the author of My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface A Note on Song Popularity Chapter 1: Women in the World of Tin Pan Alley Chapter 2: The Twenties "Sugar Blues" (1918/1923)
Lucy Fletcher
lyricist "Mexicali Rose" (1922/1923)
Helen Stone
lyricist "The Down Hearted Blues" (1921)
Lovie Austin
composer; Alberta Hunter
lyricist "Serenade" from The Student Prince (1924)
Dorothy Donnelly
lyricist "I Know That You Know" (1926)
Anne Caldwell
lyricist "Backwater Blues" (1927)
Bessie Smith
composer-lyricist "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" (1927/1955)
Lil Hardin Armstrong
composer Chapter 3: "Can't We Be Friends" (1929)
Kay Swift
composer Chapter 4: "It Happened in Monterey" (1929/1930)
Mabel Wayne
composer Chapter 5: The Thirties "Siboney" (1931)
Dolly Morse
lyricist "Say Si Si" (1936)
Francia Luban
lyricist "Taboo" ("Tabú
" 1934)
Margarita Lecuona
composer-lyricist "Them There Eyes" (1931)
Doris Tauber
composer "Accent on Youth" (1935)
Tot Seymour
lyricist; Vee Lawnhurst
composer "I Wished on the Moon" (1935)
Dorothy Parker
lyricist "What's Your Story
Morning Glory?" (1938/1940)
Mary Lou Williams
composer-lyricist "Some Other Spring" (1939/1940)
Irene Armstrong Wilson Kitchings
composer "I'll Never Smile Again" (1939)
Ruth Lowe
composer-lyricist Chapter 6: "My Silent Love" (1931/1932)
Dana Suesse
composer Chapter 7: "Willow
Weep for Me" (1932)
Ann Ronell
composer-lyricist Chapter 8: "Close Your Eyes" (1933)
Bernice Petkere
composer-lyricist Chapter 9: "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" ("Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado
" 1934)
Maria Grever
composer-lyricist Chapter 10: "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936)
Dorothy Fields
lyricist Chapter 11: The Forties "How High the Moon" (1940)
Nancy Hamilton
lyricist "I Dream of You" (1944)
Marjorie Goetschius
Edna Osser
composers-lyricists "The Man with the Horn" (1945)
Bonnie Lake
composer "It's a Good Day" (1946)
Peggy Lee
lyricist "A Sunday Kind of Love" (1946)
Anita Leonard
Barbara Belle
composers-lyricists "It's Too Soon to Know" (1947)
Deborah Chessler
composer-lyricist "Scarlet Ribbons" (1949)
Evelyn Danzig
composer Chapter 12: "God Bless' the Child" (1940)
Billie Holiday
composer-lyricist Chapter 13: "Good Morning
Heartache" (1945)
Irene Higginbotham
composer Chapter 14: "Put the Blame on Mame" (1945/1946)
Doris Fisher
composer-lyricist Chapter 15: "Far Away Places" (1947/1948)
Joan Whitney
composer-lyricist Chapter 16: The Fifties "Too Young" (1949/1951)
Sylvia Dee
lyricist "Twisted" (1952)
Annie Ross
lyricist "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955)
Fran Landesman
lyricist Chapter 17: "Just in Time" (1956)
Betty Comden
lyricist Chapter 18: "Witchcraft" (1957)
Carolyn Leigh
lyricist Chapter 19: "Nice 'n' Easy" (1960)
Marilyn Keith Bergman
lyricist Chapter 20: What Happened Next Endnotes Selected Song Title Index General Index