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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster
A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man Behind "Swanee River," "Beautiful Dreamer," and "My Old Kentucky Home"
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xxxii, 435 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : Illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9781442253865
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Foster, Collins | Northeast Indoors | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.