Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture - Couverture rigide

Emerson, Ken

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684810107 ISBN 13 : 9780684810102

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Emerson Ken

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Stephen Foster (1826 1864) was America's first great songwriter and the first to earn his living solely through his music. He composed some 200 songs, including such classics as "Oh! Susanna,” Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "Old Folks at Home (Way down upon the Swanee River),” and "Camptown Races (Doo-dah! Doo-dah!).” He virtually invented popular music as we recognize it to this day, yet he died at age thirty-seven, a forgotten and nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery. The author reveals Foster's contradictory life while disclosing how the dynamics of nineteenth-century industrialization, westward expansion, the Gold Rush, slavery, and the Civil War infused his music, and how that music influenced popular culture.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ken Emerson, a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and New York Newsday, has written about popular music for thirty years. He lives in New Jersey.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684810107
• ISBN 13: 9780684810102
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400