Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster
noun
United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑songwriter, ↑songster, ↑ballad maker

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Stephen Foster [Stephen Foster]
(1826–1864) a US writer of almost 200 popular songs, most of them about the US South. They are sometimes called ↑folk songs because they are so simple. Most were for musical shows performed by white entertainers with words representing the speech of African Americans at that time. They include ↑Oh! Susanna, ↑Old Folks at Home, ↑Camptown Races, ↑My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer and Old Black Joe. Foster himself only visited the South once.

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