Yip Harburg
Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist
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 Interweaving close to fifty interviews (most of them previously unpublished), over forty lyrics, and a number of Harburg's poems, Harriet Hyman Alonso enables Harburg to talk about his life and work.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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8195-7124-3
- EAN: 9780819571243
- Produktnummer: 33161308
- Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 332 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'044 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 illus.
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