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Stephen Foster & Co. : Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs
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Stephen Foster & Co. : Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs
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 melodies.
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Back in the nineteenth century, the leading way of distributing songs was little books called "songsters" -- texts without tunes, because most people could read but few could understand a musical s...
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