Life and Songs of Stephen Foster

Life and Songs of Stephen Foster

A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man Behind "Swanee River," "Beautiful Dreamer," and "My Old Kentucky Home"

O'Connell, JoAnne

Rowman & Littlefield

09/2016

496

Dura

Inglês

9781442253865

15 a 20 dias

JoAnne O'Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his sympathies for slaves in his plantation songs and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. This intimate biography offers an invaluable portrait of the musical, political, economic, social, racial, and gender issues of Antebellum and Civil War America.
Chapter 1: Pioneer Elites Chapter 2: Foreclosure and the Death of Charlotte Chapter 3: All Up and Down the Whole Creation Chapter 4: Schooling in Brother William's Sunshine Chapter 5: At Home in Allegheny Chapter 6: Musical Bookkeeper Chapter 7: The Awakening in Cincinnati Chapter 8: Non-Companionate Marriage Chapter 9: "Swanee River," E. P. Christy, and Sentimental Minstrelsy Chapter 10: Shiras and the Antislavery Impulse Chapter 11: Piano Girls and Parlor Songs Chapter 12: Hoboken and Deaths in the Family Chapter 13: The Buchanan Glee Club Chapter 14: Royalties Sellout Chapter 15: New York "Potboilers" Chapter 16: War Songs and Copperhead Relatives Chapter 17: The Foster - Cooper "Song Factory" Chapter 18: Concert Saloons and Variety Music Chapter 19: Last Days on the Bowery Chapter 20: Accidental Death or Suicide? Epilogue: What Came Afterwards
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