The life and songs of Stephen Foster
Subtitle: a revealing portrait of the forgotten man behind "Swanee River," "Beautiful dreamer," and "My old Kentucky home"
By: JoAnne O'Connell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781442253865
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Composers; Popular music; Biography; History and criticism
Notes: "Stephen Foster Collins life events": pages xix-xxiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pioneer elites; title: Foreclosure and the death of Charlotte; title: All up and down the whole creation; title: Schooldays in Brother William's sunshine; title: At home in Allegheny; title: Musical bookkeeper; title: Awakening in Cincinnati; title: Non-companionate marriage; title: "Swanee River," E.P. Christy, and sentimental minstrelsy; title: Shiras and the antislavery impulse; title: Piano girls and parlor songs; title: Hoboken and deaths in the family; title: The Buchanan Glee Club; title: Royalties sellout; title: New York "potboilers"; title: War songs and Copperhead relatives; title: The Foster-Cooper "song factory"; title: Concert saloons and variety music; title: Last days on the Bowery; title: Accidental death or suicide?; title: Epilogue. What came afterward.