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The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster: A Revealing Portrait of the Forgotten Man Behind “Swanee River,” “Beautiful Dreamer,” and “My Old Kentucky Home.” By JoAnne O'Connell. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2019

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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 2019 , pp. 247 - 249
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References

1 Austin, William, “Susanna,” “Jeanie,” and “The Old Folks at Home”: The Songs of Stephen C. Foster from His Time to Ours (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975, 1989)Google Scholar; Emerson, Ken, Doo-Dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997)Google Scholar.

2 For instance, although it is relevant to mention that Jane Foster's father “was instrumental in sending one of the first black men to Harvard Medical School” (125), the ancillary biographical detail regarding Martin Delany takes the reader away from the central narrative.