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Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

Steamboats Are Ruining Everything

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In its March issue, Blender magazine names Stephen Foster, 1826-1864, number 49 on its list of “The 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars.” Of the white composer of blackface minstrel tunes, Blender declares that he’s “still not quite the bomb, but his phantom’s on the mend,” after rehabilitation by Ken Burns.

Posted on 19 February 2006Author Caleb CrainCategories miscellaneous matters

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