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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster

Author : JoAnne O'Connell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253878
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster written by JoAnne O'Connell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Doo-dah!

Author : Ken Emerson
Publisher : Wayland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Doo-dah! written by Ken Emerson and published by Wayland. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive.

Stephen Foster Song Book

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486230481
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Foster Song Book written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old favorites such as Beautiful Dreamer and Oh! Susanna as well as patriotic, plantation, and minstrel songs by the American composer are presented along with reproductions of original covers

Stephen Foster and His Little Dog Tray

Author : Opal Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933573182
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Foster and His Little Dog Tray written by Opal Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nelly Was A Lady

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Nelly Was A Lady written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Susanna," "Jeanie," and "The Old Folks at Home"

Author : William W. Austin
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060694
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book "Susanna," "Jeanie," and "The Old Folks at Home" written by William W. Austin and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of celebrated composer Stephen Foster--whose two hundred songs include 'Camptown Races' and 'My Old Kentucky Home' as well as 'Susanna, ' 'Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, ' and 'The Old Folks at Home'--has influenced such famous composers and popular singers as Antonin Dvorak, Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Pete Seeger, and Ray Charles. Now, more than one hundred years after they were written, these songs are still popular. William Austin shows how generations of Americans have kept them alive, weaving them into the changing fabric of American life.

Biography, Songs and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biography, Songs and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortunate Son

Author : John Fogerty
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316244562
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Fortunate Son written by John Fogerty and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival. Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly recognizable classics: "Proud Mary," "Bad Moon Rising," "Born on the Bayou," and more. Now he reveals how he brought CCR to number one in the world, eclipsing even the Beatles in 1969. By the next year, though, Creedence was falling apart; their amazing, enduring success exploded and faded in just a few short years. Fortunate Son takes readers from Fogerty's Northern California roots, through Creedence's success and the retreat from music and public life, to his hard-won revival as a solo artist who finally found love.

Frog Music

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316324663
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Frog Music written by Emma Donoghue and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder—but only if the killer doesn’t get her first. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice—if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. "Her greatest achievement yet . . . Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music—she shows genius." —Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648723
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Modern Song written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

Author : Steve Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442254491
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings written by Steve Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover’s life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song’s recording

Stomp and Swerve

Author : David Wondrich
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569764972
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Stomp and Swerve written by David Wondrich and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early decades of American popular music--Stephen Foster, Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Enrico Caruso--are, for most listeners, the dark ages. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that the full spectrum of this music--black and white, urban and rural, sophisticated and crude--made it onto records for all to hear. This book brings a forgotten music, hot music, to life by describing how it became the dominant American music--how it outlasted sentimental waltzes and parlor ballads, symphonic marches and Tin Pan Alley novelty numbers--and how it became rock 'n' roll. It reveals that the young men and women of that bygone era had the same musical instincts as their descendants Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and even Ozzy Osbourne. In minstrelsy, ragtime, brass bands, early jazz and blues, fiddle music, and many other forms, there was as much stomping and swerving as can be found in the most exciting performances of hot jazz, funk, and rock. Along the way, it explains how the strange combination of African with Scotch and Irish influences made music in the United States vastly different from other African and Caribbean forms; shares terrific stories about minstrel shows, "coon" songs, whorehouses, knife fights, and other low-life phenomena; and showcases a motley collection of performers heretofore unknown to all but the most avid musicologists and collectors.

American Folk Songs for Guitar

Author : David Nadal
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048641700X
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book American Folk Songs for Guitar written by David Nadal and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially transcribed and arranged for beginning and intermediate guitar players, this anthology of 49 classics includes such perennial favorites as Beautiful Dreamer, Amazing Grace, Aura Lee, On Top of Old Smoky, Blue Tail Fly, Camptown Races, Dixie's Land, Yankee Doodle, Sweet Betsy from Pike, John Henry, and many more.

Massa's in the Cold, Cold, Ground

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Massa's in the Cold, Cold, Ground written by Stephen Collins Foster and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stephen Collins Foster

Author : Harold Vincent Milligan
Publisher : New York ; Boston : G. Schirmer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Collins Foster written by Harold Vincent Milligan and published by New York ; Boston : G. Schirmer. This book was released on 1920 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask

Author : William John Mahar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066962
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Burnt Cork Mask written by William John Mahar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The songs, dances, jokes, parodies, spoofs, and skits of blackface groups such as the Virginia Minstrels and Buckley's Serenaders became wildly popular in antebellum America. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask not only explores the racist practices of these entertainers but considers their performances as troubled representations of ethnicity, class, gender, and culture in the nineteenth century. William J. Mahar's unprecedented archival study of playbills, newspapers, sketches, monologues, and music engages new sources previously not considered in twentieth-century scholarship. More than any other study of its kind, Behind the Burnt Cork Mask investigates the relationships between blackface comedy and other Western genres and traditions; between the music of minstrel shows and its European sources; and between "popular" and "elite" constructions of culture. By locating minstrel performances within their complex sites of production, Mahar offers a significant reassessment of the historiography of the field. Behind the Burnt Cork Mask promises to redefine the study of blackface minstrelsy, charting new directions for future inquiries by scholars in American studies, popular culture, and musicology.

The Stephen Foster Collection

Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 147063726X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Stephen Foster Collection written by Stephen Foster and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Collins Foster penned some of America's most enduring songs. This exquisite book offers stunning piano/vocal arrangements of ten favorites from the Foster library. Mark Hayes adds his touch to this quintessential repertoire for recitals, concerts, and contests. Titles: * Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * Gentle Annie * The Glendy Burk * Hard Times Come Again No More * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * My Old Kentucky Home * Oh! Susanna * Slumber, My Darling * Some Folks