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Oakland services to commemorate Stephen Foster
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The life and accomplishments of songwriter Stephen Foster will be
commemorated during two events Friday.
A memorial service will be conducted at 10 a.m. at the Temple of
Memories Mausoleum at Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville. Foster is
buried in the Lawrenceville cemet...
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Paint it blackface
The Village Voice
; Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture By Ken Emerson Simon and Schuster, 400 pp., $30 BY ROBERT CANTWELL Reading Ken Emerson's Doo-dah! is like attending somebody else's family reunion, where you meet so many people that your facial muscles seize into a grin. It's a big,
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STEPHEN FOSTER: A MAN OF HIS TIMES.(EDITORIAL)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; Byline: KARAL ANN MARLING BIOGRAPHY It's a real feat to write an engaging biography of a person about whom almost nothing is known for certain. Thanks to a judicious pruning of family records on the part of his mortified descendants, the facts surrounding the short life and the squalid death of the
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Beautiful Dreamer: Shedding New Light on Stephen Foster's Legend.
World and I
; 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
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Beautiful Dreamer; Shedding new light on Foster's legend.(ARTS & CULTURE)(AMERICANA)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES At first blush, the music of Stephen Foster is an odd first choice for American Roots Publishing, 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
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Lawrenceville festival will celebrate Stephen Foster
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; Pittsburghers long have been known for their penchant for oldies music. On Saturday, music fans will gather in Lawrenceville to celebrate the most influential songwriter of the '50s -- the 1850s, that is -- Stephen Collins Foster. The Lawrenceville Historical Society will play host to its first
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