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Furia takes the reader inside the art of lyric writing by examining the work of one of its greatest practitioners. We learn just how it is that we are beguiled by these artisans.
For jazz standards readers and researchers, this is the book on Ira Gershwin. Philip Furia, does a masterful job of telling the lyricist’s life story through his work and analyzing his technique and style as it changed over the years. The index includes song titles.
Philip Furia is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina. He is also the author of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with
a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards.
Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid
you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are
listed at the right and the listing may be considered the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards
per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance
to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
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