{"product_id":"musicals-of-cole-porter","title":"Musicals of Cole Porter","description":"\u003cp\u003eCole Porter (1891–1964) remains one of America’s most popular composer-songwriters, known for the many urbane, witty, romantic songs he wrote for stage musicals and Hollywood films. Porter was unique among his contemporaries for writing both the music and lyrics for his compositions. To this day, several of his numbers—\"Night and Day,\" \"I’ve Got You Under My Skin,\" \"You’re the Top,\" and \"I Get a Kick Out of You,\" to name a few—endure as standards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003e The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernard F. Dick presents a critical study of Porter’s Broadway and movie musicals, and his one foray into live television, \u003ci\u003eAladdin—\u003c\/i\u003ecovering the period from his first failure, \u003ci\u003eSee America First\u003c\/i\u003e (1916), to the moderately successful \u003ci\u003eSilk Stockings \u003c\/i\u003e(1955), which ended his Broadway career. Taking a chronological approach, interspersed with chapters on Porter’s \"list songs\" that owe much to such operas as Mozart’s \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e and Rossini’s \u003ci\u003eThe Barber of Seville\u003c\/i\u003e; his love songs, often bittersweet and bleakly poignant; and, above all, his love of figurative language, Dick discusses in detail the various literary sources and cultural reference points that inspired the lyrics to Porter’s numbers. The first volume of its kind exclusively dedicated to exploring the extensive body of work by this influential twentieth-century songwriter, \u003ci\u003eThe Musicals of Cole Porter \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling resource for students and scholars interested in the craft of a great composer-lyricist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249936716120,"sku":"9781496856128","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781496856128_1ae2165e-7ec0-47c0-b6a8-a802d52d0e0c.jpg?v=1777880745","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/musicals-of-cole-porter","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}