Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of the First Great American Songwriters
(American Poets Project #30)
$39.83
- Hardcover
204 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2010
Summary
Stephen Foster is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including “Oh! Susanna,” “Old Folks at Home” (“Way down upon the Swanee River…”), and “My Old Kentucky Home,” and his parlor ballads, such as “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer,” have inspired composers, songwriters, and performers from Charles Ives and George Gershwin to Ray Charles and James Taylor. Foster devoted as much care and craft to his lyrics as he did to his timeless melo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598530704 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598530704 |
| Author: | Steven Foster, Ken Emerson |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 119mm x 17mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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Critics Review
“Pop-song scholar Emerson presents 81 such songs in their earliest incarnations in this neat collection, sorting them in categories that, used in their heyday, still make sense: Plantation Melodies, Parlor Songs, Drinking and Temperance Songs, Songs of Protest and Poverty, War Songs, and Comic Songs… . Essential Americana.”—Booklist
About The Author
Steven Foster
Ken Emersonis the author ofDoo-Dah!- Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular CultureandAlways Magic in the Air- The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era.
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