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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: O'Connell, JoAnne, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Subjects:
Foster, Stephen Collins, > 1826-1864.
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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