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The Art of Yielding
Burke, Kenneth | April 25, 1934 issue

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This article critically appraises the books "Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour," by John Tasker Howard, and "They All Sang: From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée," by Edward B. Marks. The art song, no matter how great its pretensions, fails clearly in the category of "business." It was written as a sales commodity in a civilization that was learning more and more to live by a purchase economy. Howard's thoroughly documented record of Foster's career appropriately has an entire chapter headed Finances, the upshot of which is that Foster averaged something more than $1,300 a year for the period between 1849 and 1860, his productive era as a purveyor of pleas- ant melancholy to millions.

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STEPHEN Foster, America's Troubadour (Book); THEY All Sang: From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallee (Book); BOOKS & reading; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; FOSTER, Stephen; HOWARD, John Tasker
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