The life and songs of Stephen Foster : a revealing portrait of the forgotten man behind Swanee River, Beautiful dreamer, and My old Kentucky home /

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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster's plantation songs, like "Old Folks at Home" and "My Old Kentucky Home," fell from grace...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Connell, JoAnne, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Temas:
Foster, Stephen Collins, > 1826-1864.
To 1901
Composers > United States > Biography.
Popular music > United States > To 1901 > History and criticism.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Musique populaire > États-Unis > Jusqu'à 1901 > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
Composers.
Popular music.
United States.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pioneer elites
  • Foreclosure and the death of Charlotte
  • All up and down the whole creation
  • Schooldays in Brother William's sunshine
  • At home in Allegheny
  • Musical bookkeeper
  • Awakening in Cincinnati
  • Non-companionate marriage
  • "Swanee River", E.P. Christy, and sentimental minstrelsy
  • Shiras and the antislavery impulse
  • Piano girls and parlor songs
  • Hoboken and deaths in the family
  • Buchanan Glee Club
  • Royalties sellout
  • New York "potboilers"
  • War songs and Copperhead relatives
  • Foster-Cooper "song factory"
  • Concert saloons and variety music
  • Last days on the Bowery
  • Accidental death or suicide?
  • Epilogue: What came afterward.

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