ISBN: 9780684810102 - Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture (29 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Used Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust Jacket has some edge and corner wear, some scuffing, but still intact. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. Clearly a pre-owned and used copy but still in readable condition. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Simon & Schuster May 1997 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover, with dust jacket, published by Simon & Schuster, 1997. The first biography of Stephen Foster in more than 60 years. The composer of popular music classics; 'My Old Kentucky Home', Oh! Susanna', and many others, who virtually invented popular music as we know it. 400 pages with Index, Notes, Bibliography, and a section of photos, 6-1/2" X 9-1/2". Dust jacket is not price clipped. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy, edges of the text block are clean and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in gilt-lettered red paper spine and light brown paper-covered boards. Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition, with very light foxing to top and bottom edge of text block. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 400 pages. "Stephen Foster was America's first great songwriter. The composer of classics such as "Oh! Susanna," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "Beautiful Dreamer," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the Swanee River"), and "Camptown Races" ("Doo-dah! Doo-dah!"), Foster virtually invented popular music as we recognize it to this day. Yet by his death in 1864, at the early age of thirty-seven, he was all but forgotten. In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive." "Foster's life was riddled with contradictions. Although his songs celebrated the rural South, he scarcely set foot there, spending most of his life in Pittsburgh, the smoky cradle of America's industrial revolution. He won fame by writing blackface minstrel songs, doing what white boys from Irving Berlin to Elvis Presley to Michael Bolton have been doing ever since: mimicking black music. Yet the best of his songs transcended burnt-cork caricature and expressed a profound sympathy for African Americans that even Frederick Douglass applauded. Foster's yearning for respectability drove him to write genteel love songs, but these ballads were belied by his own broken marriage. Unable to equal the success of his earlier hits, he died a nearly penniless alcoholic on the Bowery." "Doo-dah! evokes not only Foster's songs but the wide-ranging music of his era, from high opera to low dives, and it looks ahead to the ragtime, rock, and rap of our own century. It's a sweeping panorama with a cast of characters that extends from Davy Crockett to Andrew Carnegie, from America's first great classical pianist, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, to its first great proponent of Afrocentrism, Martin Delany. It was the era of industrialization; of steamboats, railroads, and the telegraph; of westward expansion and the California gold rush; and, of course, of slavery and the Civil War. Foster absorbed it all, and all of it infused his music. After Emerson's exploration of the multiple meanings of Foster's first hit song - relating it to the tragic death of Foster's sister, the catastrophic triumph of technology, and the casual cruelty of racism as well as to the writings of Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, and Mark Twain - "Oh! Susanna" will never sound the same.".…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Remainder mark. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Multiple copies available this title. Dust Jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Music; Folk Music; ISBN: 0684810107. ISBN/EAN: 9780684810102. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25155. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. b-38 DJ in Brodart. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 400pp including bibliography, discography, and index Photographs Illustrations Interesting biography of America's first great songwriter Dust jacket has small tear at top edge of spine of jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Slightly Frayed DJ. First Edition. 400pp Illus "Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. on dustjacket: very light yellowing and a touch of color rubbing on the rear; small incision at top of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1997. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new with spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is like new with very slight shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Simon & Schuster, 1997. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to writer Arthur Schlesinger on title page. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Great signed copy of this engaging biography.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. A few tanning spots in front, fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

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Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom text block edge. Foxing on top text block edge.; 400 pages.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.