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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster
The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like “Old Folks at Home” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine l...
Stephen Foster Song Book
Old favorites such as Beautiful Dreamer and Oh! Susanna as well as patriotic, plantation, and minstrel songs by the American composer are presented along with reproductions of original covers
The Songs of Stephen Foster (Songbook)
(P/V/G Composer Collection). The first great American songwriter, Stephen Foster's songs are now part of the American folk tradition. This collection presents 30 of his compositions, plus photos and a new biography. Includes: Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * My Old Kentucky Home * Oh! Susanna * Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) * more.
The Long Argument
In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who ne...
Doo-dah!
In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive.
Doo-dah!
In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive.
The Life and Times of Stephen Foster
A biography of the nineteenth-century American composer.
Diagnosis & Treatment of Uveitis
Uveitis is inflammation of the middle layer of the eye, which is known as the uvea or uveal tract. It is a complex condition with a variety of causes and clinical manifestations, including injury, infection or an underlying condition. This 1200pp second edition brings ophthalmologists fully up to date with the latest developments in diagnosing and treating uveitis. Beginning with the basic principles of the disease, its diagnosis and management, the following sections discuss the treatment of numerous different infectious, non infectious, masquerade and autoimmune syndromes. Basic science, differential diagnosis, pathology and clinical management are discussed for each condition. Written by ...
