Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the rise of American popular culture
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Portrays the life and works of one of America's earliest professional songwriters and creator of popular music. Traces his youth in Pittsburgh, his desultory search for a career, his later success as a composer of minstrel songs, and his tragic… final years as a bibulous pauper who strove in vain for respectability. 1997.