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Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1545749000
A biography of the nineteenth-century American composer.
Author : JoAnne O'Connell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1442253878
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 : Ken Emerson
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486230481
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 : Richard H. Atwood
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Tasker Howard
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Composers
ISBN :
1 copy located in CIRCULATION.
Author : Harold Vincent Millgam
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019603000
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.
Author : Stephen Collins Foster
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Hymns, English
ISBN :
Author : Nicholas Martin
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250115965
This is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins—now the basis of a major motion picture starring Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep! She was a woman with a dream. Nobody believed in her talent. But nothing could stop her. . . She had no pitch, no rhythm, and no tone. Still, Florence Foster Jenkins (Streep) became one of America’s best-known sopranos. Born in 1868, Florence was a talented young pianist whose wealthy father refused to let her continue her musical studies in Europe. In retaliation, Florence eloped with Dr. Frank Jenkins, a man twice her age, and moved to New York. But when her father died and left her a large sum of money, Florence finally had a chance to pursue her one true passion: Singing. But first she would have to learn how to become a great singer. Years of lessons and a chance meeting with St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), who would become her manager and common-law husband, would help launch Florence’s career and entry into New York’s prestigious classical musical societies, culminating in her giving a recital, at the age of seventy-six, at Carnegie Hall. This is story of a woman who was not afraid to recreate herself into the person she wished to become—and achieve her own version of the American Dream.
Author : William W. Austin
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252060694
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.