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O'Connell, JoAnne, 1950- author.
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Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
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The life and songs o...
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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" / JoAnne O'Connell.
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O'Connell, JoAnne, 1950- author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, c2016.
Subjects
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9781442253865
144225386X
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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.
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Hawaii State Library
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782.42164 Foster OC
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