Swanee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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The Swanee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Swanee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges Jr. and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with categories.
Swanee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Swanee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Swanee Ribber And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Swanee Ribber And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Composers categories.
The Swanee Ribber And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Swanee Ribber And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
The Sawnee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges (Jr)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Sawnee River And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges (Jr) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Composers categories.
Swanee Ribber And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Swanee Ribber And A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Composers categories.
Swanee Ribber And A Biography Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Swanee Ribber And A Biography Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
The Life And Times Of Stephen Foster
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Author : Susan Zannos
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2004-09
The Life And Times Of Stephen Foster written by Susan Zannos and has been published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Stephen Foster was a musical genius born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and into the wrong family. The middle of the nineteenth century was an era of development, of conquering the land and building canals and railroads. The men who were admired were the engineers and builders, the developers and inventors, not artists and composers. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, where Stephen spent his early years were rough river towns. Fortunes were made and lost transporting goods on the rivers. The Foster family was originally successful, but by the time Stephen was born on the 4th of July 1826, they were losing their land and their home. Stephen's father considered his son's interest in music to be a bad habit. Stephen persisted in writing songs—the best-loved and most famous songs in America. But he wrote his songs before the days when copyright laws protected songwriters. If he had written his music today—"Oh! Susanna," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Camptown Races," "Old Black Joe," "Way Down Upon the Swanee River"—he would have been a millionaire many times over. When Foster died in poverty in New York in 1864, he had 38 cents in his pocket, one penny for each year he lived.
The Life And Songs Of Stephen Foster
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Author : JoAnne O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-09-29
The Life And Songs Of Stephen Foster written by JoAnne O'Connell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Music categories.
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 in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine line between the family’s conservative politics and his own pro-Lincoln sentiments. Foster lived most of his life just outside of industrial, smoke-filled Pittsburgh and wrote songs set in a pastoral South—unsullied by the grime of industry but tarnished by the injustice of slavery. Rather than defining Foster by his now-controversial minstrel songs, JoAnne O’Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his true feelings in his lyrics and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. In a trenchant reevaluation of his NewYork Bowery years, O’Connell illustrates how Foster purposely abandoned the style for which he was famous to write lighthearted songs for newly popular variety stages and music halls. In the last years of his life, Foster’s new direction in songwriting stood in the vanguard of vaudeville and musical comedy to pave the way for the future of American popular music. His stylistic flexibility in the face of evolving audience preferences not only proves his versatility as a composer but also reveals important changes in the American music and publishing industries. An intimate biography of a complex, controversial, and now neglected composer, The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster is an important story about the father of American music. This invaluable portrait of the political, economic, social, racial, and gender issues of antebellum and Civil War America will appeal to history and music lovers of all generations.
A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster
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Author : Fletcher Hodges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
A Biographical Sketch Of Stephen Collins Foster written by Fletcher Hodges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.