AudioMo Day Two History Behind Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe

Stephen Foster was a songwriter. He had two styles of composition. One for the minstrel stage where he wrote in a stereotypical style and one for the parlor or for family occasions. 

Old Black Joe was created for the singing in the parlor audience.

     

 

If you would like to see the poem/song lyrics, there is a version of it on the Poetry Foundation's website. 

If you would like to know more about Stephen Foster, the Library of Congress has a biography of the songwriter. 

AudioMo is an international participation of folks that want to share what they can do with the audio format. This is a captioned audio for those folks that are deaf, hearing impaired or English is not their native language.