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Beautiful Dreamer: Shedding New Light on Stephen Foster's Legend.
From:
World and I
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November 1, 2004| Author:
Galupo, Scott
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Scott Galupo is a writer with The Washington Times.
At first blush, the music of Stephen Foster is an odd first choice for American Roots Publishing (ARP), a nonprofit group that's trying to preserve the regional tang of American folk art, music, and literature, past and present.
The handsome liner notes by Ken Emerson, author of Doo-Dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture, tell of a national, not a regional, star. "Foster was the first gr...
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