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A Cole Porter companion
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- Creator
- edited by Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, and Susan Forscher Weiss
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 370 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252040092, 0252098307, 9780252098307, 9780252081583, 0252081587, 0252040090
- OCLC
- ocn953657106, ocn926062424, ocn936234519
- Various authors.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Forward / Willilam Bolcom -- Editor's preface / Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, and Susan Forscher Weiss -- Part 1. What a joy to be young: from Peru to Paris via Yale and other academies. Cole Porter at Yale / Robert Kimball ; When the little bluebird starts to sing: Porter's musical formation / Susan Forscher Weiss ; Cole Porter, European / Wilfried Van den Brande ; Landed: Cole Porter's Ballet / Simon Morrison -- Part 2. Porter the poet and performer. Lists of louche living: music in Cole Porter's social world / Mitchell Morris ; Which comes first, the music or the lyrics? / Rob Kapilow ; I hate parading my serenading: the historical record of Porter as a performer / Eric Davis ; From Young bears to Three-letter words: Anything goes, 1934-1962 / James Hepokoski ; Keeping faith with John Q. Public: Cole Porter, Billy Rose, and Seven lively arts / James O'Leary ; The beat beat beat of the tom-tom: Cole Porter and the exotic / Joshua S. Walden -- Part 3. Approaches to analysis and criticism of Porter's works. Licentious harmony and couterpoint in Porter's Love for sale / Michael Buchler ; About Cole Porter's songs / Don M. Randel ; You never know: anatomy of a flop / Cliff Eisen ; A consideration of drama, lyrics, and musical structure in a Porter film: Broadway melody of 1940 / Matthew Shaftel ; Kiss me, Kate / Lynn Laitman Siebert -- Part 4. Materials for the study of Cole Porter's music. Cole Porter's papers / Mark Eden Horowitz ; Secondary materials and the study of Cole Porter / Gregory J. Decker