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Title: Doo-Dah: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture by Ken Emerson ISBN: 0-306-80852-8 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Doo-Dah...Do wah?
Comment: I guess I'm the type person referenced in the one guy's review where he stated that those people who are looking for a Point A to Point Z type of biography will be disappointed with the book "Doo-Dah : Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture." Since a Point A to Point Z biography of Stephen Foster was/is exactly what I sought, I've found reading this particular book (in which music plays the lead role and Foster is sadly oftentimes little more than a secondary player) an endurance contest! Don't get me wrong: it's a well written book; just not what I was hoping for.
Rating: 5
Summary: Doo Dah is the BEST BIOGRAPHY OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!
Comment: If you haven't read Doo Dah, buy it today!!!! Doo Dah was the best book that I have ever read in my entire life. Unfortunately, the book is not as good as the writer is handsome, and if it was it would be on the best seller list, and I know because he is my uncle. So, show your support of American culture and buy this stupendous biography, by the Master writer, the all time best, the one and only Ken Emerson.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bow-wow!
Comment: This is another boonie dog book review from Wolfie and Kansas. Ken Emerson's book "Doo-dah! Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture" is well-written and informative. This is a "life and times" book, rather than a narrowly focused biography. However, the times of Stephen Foster, and the social and cultural history which Emerson discusses, are, like Foster's music, generally more interesting than the sometimes racist and alcoholic Foster himself.
Our one complaint about "Doo-dah!" is the short shrift Mr. Emerson gives to one of Stephen Foster's biggest hits in 1857, a song entitled "Old Dog Tray". We would have like to have learned more about this song. Foster's minstrel songs were performed by white men in blackface. Was "Old Dog Tray" performed by humans in dogface?
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Title: Stephen Foster Song Book by Stephen Foster ISBN: 0486230481 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1974 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Spinning Blues into Gold : The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records by Nadine Cohodas ISBN: 0312261330 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael by Richard M. Sudhalter ISBN: 0195131207 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Last Train to Memphis : The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0316332259 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Songs of Stephen Foster by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 0793591228 Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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