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|} "Ain't We Got Fun" is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn. It was first performed in 1920 in the revue ''Satires of 1920'', then moved into vaudeville and recordings. "Ain't We Got Fun?" and its jaunty response to poverty and its promise of fun ("Every morning / Every evening", and "In the meantime, / In between time") have become symbolic of the Roaring Twenties, and it appears in some of the major literature of the decade, including ''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in Dorothy Parker's award-winning short story of 1929, "Big Blonde". The song also contains variations on the phrase "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" (substituting, ''e.g.'', "children" for "poorer"); though this phrase predates the song, its use increased with the song's popularity. ==Composition== "Ain't We Got Fun" follows the structure of a foxtrot.〔''Fixing the Blame for Jazz'' by Edward C. Barroll From ''The Metronome'' of September 1922. Republished in 〕 The melody uses mainly quarter notes, and has an unsyncopated refrain made up largely of variations on a repeated four-note phrase.〔, page 76.〕 The ''Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia'' describes it as a "Roaring Twenties favourite" and praises its vibrancy, "zesty music", and comic lyrics.〔Thomas S. Hischak (2002), ''(The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia )'', Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-31992-8, page 8.〕 Philip Furia, connecting Kahn's lyrics to the song's music, writes that: Critical appraisals vary regarding what view of poverty the song's lyrics take. Nicholas E. Tawa summarizes the refrain ''Ain't we got fun'' as a ''satirical and jaunty rejoinder'' toward hard times.〔 Diane Holloway and Bob Cheney, authors of ''American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945'', concur, and describe the black humor in the couple's relief that their poverty shields them from worrying about damage to their nonexistent Pierce Arrow luxury automobile. Yet George Orwell highlights the lyrics of "Ain't We Got Fun" as an example of working class unrest: After quoting a few of the song's lines Orwell refers to the era as a time when ''people had not yet settled down to a lifetime of unemployment mitigated by endless cups of tea, '' a turn of phrase which the later writer Larry Portis contests.〔 However, others concentrate on the fun that they got. Stephen J. Whitfield, citing lyrics such as "Every morning / Every evening / Ain't we got fun", writes that the song "set the mood which is indelibly associated with the Roaring Twenties", a decade when pleasure was sought and found constantly, morning, evening, and "In the meantime / In between time".〔 Philip Furia and Michael Lasser see implicit references to sexual intercourse in lyrics such as ''the happy chappy, and his bride of only a year.'' Looked at in the context of the 1920s, an era of increasing sexual freedom, they point out that, while here presented within the context of marriage (in other songs it is not), the sexuality is notably closer to the surface than in previous eras and is presented as a delightful, youthful pleasure.〔 There are several variations on the lyrics. For example, ''American History in Song''〔 quotes the lyrics: The sheet music published in 1921 by Jerome K. Remick and Co. leaves this chorus out completely,〔Richard A. Whiting, Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn, (1921) ''Ain't We Got Fun'', Jerome K. Remick and Co., New York〕 whereas a recording for Edison Records by Billy Jones keeps the reference to the Pierce Arrow, but then continues as in the sheet music: "There's nothing surer / The rich get rich and the poor get laid off / In the meantime,/ In between time/ Ain't we got fun?"〔Billy Jones (1921), performing "" by Richard A. Whiting, Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn, Edison Records Edison Blue Amberol #4309.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ain't We Got Fun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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