# Stephen Foster
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Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer", and many of his compositions remain popular today.
"Stephen Foster and William Grant Still" with Samantha Ege
In this episode, Jason talks with Samantha Ege about the connection between Stephen Foster and William Grant Still. Samantha is a pianist, musicologist, and a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Southhampton. She is a leading scholar of African American composer Florence B. Pri…
"Stephen Foster and Gussie Davis" with Bill Brooks
In this episode, Jason talks with Bill Brooks about the connection between Stephen Foster and Gussie Davis. Bill is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois and at the University of York. He is also Senior Research Fellow and Series Editor at the Orpheus Research Centre in Ghent, Belgium…
"Foster's Songs and Women's Music Practices" with Candace Bailey
In this episode, Jason talks with Candace Bailey about the musical lives of women in nineteenth-century America, and especially about what the binder’s volumes that women in Stephen Foster’s family used to collect sheet music can tell us about his life and legacy. Candace is a musicologist and John…
"Stephen Foster's Songs During the Civil War" with Jim Davis
In this episode, Jennie talks with Jim Davis, professor of musicology and chair of the music history area at SUNY Fredonia. Jim has written extensively about the music of the Civil War, expanding our conceptions of the fireside music of the front line, the fiddles and fifes of documentaries and fil…
"Foster's Early Years" with Chris Lynch
In this episode, Jason talks with Chris Lynch, about an understudied early Foster composition entitled “Where Is Thy Spirit Mary?” Chris is Head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library at the University of Pittsburgh and has done extensive work at the Center for American Music helping to preserve a…
"Remembering Stephen Foster" with Kathy Haines
In this episode, Jennie talks with Kathryn Miller Haynes, Head of the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh. The center is a successor institution of the Foster Hall Collection, the cornerstone of concrete memorial culture that sprung up around Stephen Foster in the early 20th c…
Stephen Foster at 200
Welcome to Stephen Foster at 200, a companion podcast to the edited volume Stephen Foster at 200: A Critical Reappraisal. In this first episode, hosts Jason Lee Guthrie and Jennie Lightness-Goff sit down with Robin James, the book's editor. Our conversation covered the project's background and why …
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On July 4th, 1826, America celebrated its jubilee Independence Day and mourned the loss of two founding fathers. It also welcomed the birth of a boy in Pittsburgh who would one day be known as the “Father of American Music.”
Stephen Foster was the composer of many popular early American songs inclu…
Halloween Songs: Part 2
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In this episode of Music at a Rational Volume, Nate and Kyle revisit another one of our playlists... Halloween Songs. Much like the recent part 2 of the Fall Songs, this episode provides a much needed update to the playlists they've made previously by adding a fresh batch of tracks…
"The Future of Foster Research" with Deane Root
On today's episode, Jennie talks with Deane Root, a name that's familiar to many scholars of music history. Deane is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Founding Director of the Center for American Music. Adding to his truly extensive list of publications on Stephen…
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