". . . required reading for anyone interested in the great American songs."-New York Times Book Review Many of us can sing along with Dorothy when she imagines a place "Over the Rainbow." And we all remember the Depression-era classic "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" But very few can name the man who put the words to these celebrated hallmarks of American music- Yip Harburg. Five hundred songs spanning a fifty-year career bear witness to the brilliance of this until-now obscure figure. Plunge into this scrupulously documented volume and discover how Harburg, once a poet of light verse, played a major role in the transformation of the Broadway revue into the sophisticated musical of the 1940s and 1950s. With extensive and exclusive interviews and lyrical analysis, the authors capture Harburg's wit, distinctive voice, and creative and collaborative methods. Inquiry into Harburg's Jewish, New York City roots, apprenticeship in his craft, and involvement in the radical politics of the 1930s- he was blacklisted in the 1950s- puts into context the seemingly irreconcilable skepticism and optimism that contoured this lyrical genius's life and work. Harold Meyerson is Executive Editor and chief political columnist, L.A. Weekly, and is on the editorial board of Dissent. Ernie Harburg is a social psychologist and epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, coauthor (with Bernard Rosenberg) of The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art, and Yip Harburg's son.

Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist

Humor & Entertainment

Meyerson, Harold

Harburg, Ernie

Movies

University of Michigan Press

". . . required reading for anyone interested in the great American songs."-New York Times Book Review Many of us can sing along with Dorothy when she imagines a place "Over the Rainbow." And we all remember the Depression-era classic "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" But very few can name the man who put the words to these celebrated hallmarks of American music- Yip Harburg. Five hundred songs spanning a fifty-year career bear witness to the brilliance of this until-now obscure figure. Plunge into this scrupulously documented volume and discover how Harburg, once a poet of light verse, played a major role in the transformation of the Broadway revue into the sophisticated musical of the 1940s and 1950s. With extensive and exclusive interviews and lyrical analysis, the authors capture Harburg's wit, distinctive voice, and creative and collaborative methods. Inquiry into Harburg's Jewish, New York City roots, apprenticeship in his craft, and involvement in the radical politics of the 1930s- he was blacklisted in the 1950s- puts into context the seemingly irreconcilable skepticism and optimism that contoured this lyrical genius's life and work. Harold Meyerson is Executive Editor and chief political columnist, L.A. Weekly, and is on the editorial board of Dissent. Ernie Harburg is a social psychologist and epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, coauthor (with Bernard Rosenberg) of The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art, and Yip Harburg's son.

Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist

Univ of Michigan Pr

Every revolution needs a good bar. In Ann Arbor, Michigan that bar was the Del Rio. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ann Arbor morphed from a quiet Republican university town to an epicenter of the "counterculture” and liberal-left politics. And the new Del Rio Bar became the hangout for the newly Democratic City Council members; the anti-Vietnam-War activists, including the vocal Women's Strike for Peace, and the SDS; black power activists, gays and lesbians, women's libbers—a whole range of uppity youth—to strategize, booze and enjoy great jazz. In Liberty, Equality, Consensus and All That Jazz, social scientist/epidemiologist and former Del Rio owner Ernie Harburg shares the "warts and all" story of the social experiment that was this business establishment—somehow, miraculously run by consensus, right down to hiring and firing. The lesbian cooks who balked at hiring a male … the employee who slammed the door on would-be customers because they wore suits … Torry Harburg, co-owner, who begged haughty employees for a raise … Interwoven are an employee's memories of coming of age in the raucous, sexually promiscuous, often drugged-out but surprisingly supportive Del family. And amazingly, the Bar stayed open, sometimes just barely, until 2004. In one quixotic bar is the story of a generation.

Liberty, Equality, Consensus and All That Jazz at the Del Rio Bar

Biographies & Memoirs

Silberman, Eve

Behnke, Larry

Historical

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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