The Life And Times Of Stephen Foster

Author : JoAnne O'Connell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442253872

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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster by JoAnne O'Connell Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781545749005

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The Life and Times of Stephen Foster by Susan Zannos Pdf

A biography of the nineteenth-century American composer.

Author : Ken Emerson
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041004030

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Doo-dah! by Ken Emerson Pdf

In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive.

Author : Stephen Collins Foster,Richard Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486230481

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Stephen Foster Song Book by Stephen Collins Foster,Richard Jackson Pdf

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

Author : John Tasker Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042499975

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Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour by John Tasker Howard Pdf

1 copy located in CIRCULATION.

Author : Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442205581

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Lives and Times by Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell Pdf

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history.

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Hymns, English
ISBN : PSU:000055761000

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Biography, Songs and Musical Compositions of Stephen C. Foster by Stephen Collins Foster Pdf

Author : William W. Austin
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252060695

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"Susanna," "Jeanie," and "The Old Folks at Home" by William W. Austin Pdf

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.

Author : D. T. Max
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101601112

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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D. T. Max Pdf

The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace’s anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.

Author : Robert Hilburn
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501112133

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Paul Simon by Robert Hilburn Pdf

Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—that “reminds us how titanic this musician is” (The Washington Post). For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history. Songs like “The Sound of Silence,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Still Crazy After All These Years,” and “Graceland” have moved beyond the sales charts and into our cultural consciousness. But Simon is a deeply private person who has said he will not write an autobiography or talk to biographers. Finally, however, he has opened up for Robert Hilburn—for more than one hundred hours of interviews—in this “brilliant and entertaining portrait of Simon that will likely be the definitive biography” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Over the course of three years, Hilburn conducted in-depth interviews with scores of Paul Simon’s friends, family, colleagues, and others—including ex-wives Carrie Fisher and Peggy Harper, who spoke for the first time—and even penetrated the inner circle of Simon’s long-reclusive muse, Kathy Chitty. The result is a deeply human account of the challenges and sacrifices of a life in music at the highest level. In the process, Hilburn documents Simon’s search for artistry and his constant struggle to protect that artistry against distractions—fame, marriage, divorce, drugs, record company interference, rejection, and insecurity—that have derailed so many great pop figures. “As engaging as a lively American tune” (People), Paul Simon is a “straight-shooting tour de force…that does thorough justice to this American prophet and pop star” (USA TODAY, four out of four stars). “Read it if you like Simon; read it if you want to discover how talent unfolds itself” (Stephen King).

Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:179232572

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Nelly Was A Lady by Stephen Collins Foster Pdf

Author : Harold Vincent Milligan
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230323619

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Stephen Collins Foster; a Biography of America's Folk-Song Composer by Harold Vincent Milligan Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... VI DRIFTING The records of Stephen Foster's life during these important years are scanty. Of the few letters surviving from this period, one of the most illuminating is the following: Pittsburgh, May 25, 1852. E. P. Christy, Esq. Dear Sir: As I once intimated to you, I had the intention of omitting my name on my Ethiopian songs, owing to the prejudice against them by some, which might injure my reputation as a writer of another style of music, but I find that by my efforts I have done a great deal to build up a taste for the Ethiopian songs among refined people by making the words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. Therefore I have concluded to reinstate my name on my songs and to pursue the Ethiopian business without fear or shame and lend all my energies to making the business live, at the same time that I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian song-writer. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this so long as "The Old Folks at Home" stares me in the face with another's name on it. As it was at my own solicitation that you allowed your name to be placed on the song, I hope that the above reasons will be sufficient explanation for my desire to place my own name on it as author and composer, while at the same time I wish to leave the name of your band on the title page. This is a little matter of pride in myself which it will certainly be to your interest to encourage. On the receipt of your free consent to this proposition, I will, if you wish, willingly refund you the money which you paid me on that song, though it may have been sent me for other considerations than the one in question, and I promise in addition to write you an opening...

Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742668925

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A Private Empire by Stephen Foster Pdf

A Private Empire explores Britain's imperial past through the eyes and experiences of a single family. Historian Stephen Foster focuses on the Macphersons of Blairgowrie in Scotland, who recorded their private and public lives through five generations in an extraordinary archive of letters, documents and diaries. Elegantly presented with contemporary paintings and photographs, A Private Empire tells an intimate story of ambition and frustration, love and deception, wisdom and folly, pride and shame, passion and restraint, an attachment to place, an affection for kin-all set against the grand shifting background of Britain's imperial rule. 'In a world overpopulated by self-indulgent family histories, A Private Empire is that rarity which makes one keep reading to find out what happened to its cast of strangers.' Stephen Wilks, The Canberra Times 'A remarkably impressive book. The story he tells is an extraordinary one; indeed if it were written in the fictional genre of the family saga you would think he was stretching credulity.' Professor Stuart Macintyre, AO 'Superbly researched and wonderfully revelatory.' Professor John Mackenzie, The Scotsman 'An enthralling read and an important piece of history.' Undiscovered Scotland

Author : Stephen Pemberton
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595554161

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A Chance in the World by Stephen Pemberton Pdf

“Pemberton’s beautifully told story is a rags to riches journey—beginning in a place and with a jarring set of experiences that could have destroyed his life. But Steve’s refusal to give in to those forces, and his resolve to create a better life, shows a courage and resilience that is an example for many of us to follow.” —Stedman Graham, author, educator Home is the place where our life stories begin. A Chance in the World is the astonishing true story of a boy destined to become a man of resilience determination and vision. Down in the dank basement, amidst my moldy, hoarded food and beloved worm-eaten books, I dreamed that my real home, the place where my story had begun, was out there somewhere, and one day I was going to find it. Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life, that one day he will find his true home. A fair-complexioned boy with blue eyes, a curly Afro, and a Polish last name, he is determined to unravel the mystery of his origins and find his birth family. Armed with just a single clue, Steve embarks on an extraordinary quest for his identity, only to find that nothing is as it appears. Through it all, Steve’s story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.

Author : Harold Vincent Millgam
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019603003

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Stephen Collins Foster by Harold Vincent Millgam Pdf

Stephen Collins Foster is a biography of the famous American composer Stephen Foster. Written by Harold Vincent Milligan, this book explores Foster's life and music, providing a glimpse into the cultural landscape of 19th-century America. The book includes sheet music for many of Foster's most well-known songs, including 'Oh! Susanna' and 'Beautiful Dreamer'. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.