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200 years after his birth, controversial composer Stephen Foster still sings to America’s contradictions

By Christopher Lynch, Head of the Finney Music Library, University of Pittsburgh

A late-19th century campaign spearheaded by Foster’s brother sought to elevate him into the pantheon of American cultural heroes, even as his sympathies tended to lie with the pro-slavery South.

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