Songwriters from the period showed a remarkable degree of maturity in trying to capture what the new transience in sexual relationships actually meant.
Green, the Tony-nominated lyricist and composer, says pop songwriters who come to Broadway quickly find it's not the best place to dabble since it takes years for a musical to get up and running.
Writers Lisa Song, Elizabeth McGowan and David Hasemyer were recognized for a project that began with an investigation into a million-gallon spill of Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan in 2010.