Beautiful Dreamer: Shedding New Light on Stephen Foster's Legend.

From: World and I | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Galupo, Scott | Copyright information

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...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Beautiful Dreamer; Shedding new light on Foster's legend.(ARTS & CULTURE)(AMERICANA)
The Washington Times ; ... TIMES At first blush, the music of Stephen Foster is an odd first choice ... Ken Emerson, author of Doo-Dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American ... to burn out than to fade away. Stephen Foster could relate. But what's regional about Stephen Collins Foster of Pittsburgh ... Minstrelsy was what it ...