num_pages: 420
description: 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.
language: English
title: Susanna, Jeanie, and the Old Folks at Home: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours
titlecomplete: Susanna, Jeanie, and the Old Folks at Home: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Macmillan Pub Co