Cole Porter wrote songs and lyrics for musical theatre and popular performance, with published collections preserving material from shows such as Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate and Can-Can. Songs including 'Night and Day', 'I Get a Kick Out of You' and 'You're the Top' show his characteristic combination of sophisticated rhyme, social wit and romantic double meaning. Because Porter was principally a songwriter rather than a prose author, his books are usually lyric collections, songbooks, sheet-music anthologies or editions of musical texts rather than narrative works. The reading experience is compact, witty and performance-oriented, with verbal craft concentrated into individual numbers. His work fits musical theatre, Great American Songbook, lyric writing and Broadway history. Read more Less
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