Stephen Foster & Co. : lyrics of America's first great popular songs / edited by Ken Emerson.
America's first professional songwriter, Foster wrote lyrics that have entered our country's cultural bloodstream. Emerson presents a fully and delightfully annotated selection of Foster's most famous songs, and augments them with lyrics that either influenced Foster or were inspired...
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New York :
Library of America,
©2010.
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| Series: | American poets project ;
30. |
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Table of Contents:
- Plantation melodies
- Parlor ballads
- Drinking and temperance songs
- Songs of protest and poverty
- War songs
- Comic songs.