On today's episode, Jason talks with Chris Lynch, about an understudied early Foster composition entitled “Where Is Thy Spirit Mary?” Chris is Head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library at the University of Pittsburgh and has done extensive work at the Center for American Music helping to preserve and catalog primary sources related to Stephen Foster. He is a music historian with expertise on topics ranging from nineteenth-century popular song to opera and early Black gospel music. His most recent book is Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth.
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