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work_nhqcobfsk5gt5iqn5uc4jqnium	Matthew Shaftel	Singing a New Song: Stephen Foster and the New American Minstrelsy	2007	27	.pdf	application/pdf	11628	718	72	roots into an industry of racially charged entertainment.1 Foster's first minstrel songs, in contrast with however, many of his minstrel songs contain glimmers of a changing perception of slave life. "Stephen Foster's Debt to American Folk-Song." Musical Quarterly 22/2 (1936): 154-169. Although this song is consistent with minstrel treatment of slave subjects, an additional verse that early song Foster considers a verse that departs from the contemporaneous minstrel tradition. Like "Lou'siana Belle," "Old Uncle Ned" includes an ascent to the scale-degree 5 primary tone 32 All examples taken from a facsimile of the first edition in either: Stephen Foster Song Book (New York: Dover Foster's changed conception of the minstrel song and the African Americans therein represented. Dog Tray" (1853) is Foster's only minstrel song with no mention of the slaves or the south (Examples "Old Black Joe" (1860) is Foster's last true minstrel song and represents the ultimate distillation 	./cache/work_nhqcobfsk5gt5iqn5uc4jqnium.pdf	./txt/work_nhqcobfsk5gt5iqn5uc4jqnium.txt