Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics

Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics

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Publisher Description

Cole Porter possessed to a singular degree the art of expressing depth through apparent frivolity. The effervescent wit and technical bravura of his songs are matched by their unguarded revelations of feeling. In the words of editor Robert Kimball, “Porter wrote tellingly of the pain and evanescence of emotional relationships. He gently mocked propriety and said that few things were simple or lasting or free from ambiguity.” Of the masters of twentieth-century American songwriting, Porter was one of the few who wrote both music and lyrics, and, even in the absence of his melodies, his words distill an unmistakable mixture of poignancy and wit that marks him as a genius of light verse.

Selected from over eight hundred songs, here are Porter’s finest flights of invention, lyrics that are an indelible part of 20th-century culture: “Let’s Do It,” “Love for Sale,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Anything Goes,” “In the Still of the Night,” “I Concentrate on You,” and dozens more.

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GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2006
April 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
200
Pages
PUBLISHER
Library of America
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.3
MB
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