Harriet Hyman Alonso

Yip Harburg

Buch

Known as Broadway's social conscience, E. Y. Harburg (1896-1981) wrote the lyrics to the standards, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, April in Paris, and It's Only a Paper Moon, as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including Over the Rainbow. Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism, poverty, and war. Interweaving close to fifty interviews (most of them previously unpublished), over forty lyrics, and a number of Harburg's poems, Harriet Hyman Alonso enables Harburg to talk about his life and work. He tells of his early childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, his public schoo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8195-7128-1
EAN: 9780819571281
Produktnummer: 13990837
Verlag: University Press of New England
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 332 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm
Abbildungen: 16 illus.
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Harriet Hyman Alonso teaches history at The City College of New York, USA and is the author of the award-winning Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children and Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War.