Welcome to Stephen Foster at 200. I'm your co-host, Jason Lee Guthrie. On today’s episode I talk 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. Price, focusing on the Black Chicago Renaissance and Black women’s advocacy networks. She has a celebrated performance career and has received multiple prestigious awards and fellowships for her contributions to musicology. Our conversation covered the complex legacy of Stephen Foster’s songs in African-American musical performance.

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Welcome to Stephen Foster at 200. I'm your co-host, Jason Lee Guthrie. On today’s episode I talk 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. Bill has published widely in American Musicology and has had a successful composition career. He draws from his experience in both the academic and performance worlds during our conversation.

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Welcome to Stephen Foster at 200. I'm your co-host, Jason Lee Guthrie. On today’s episode I talk 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 C. Neville Distinguished Professor at North Carolina Central University. Her research explores women and music in the nineteenth-century United States, with a focus on music in the South. Her extensive publication list includes the books Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriett Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord and Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South.

To learn more about the show and the book, visit our website at: www.StephenFosterAt200.com.