Foster Stephen C(ollins). In: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Gale über HighBeam Research, 2001, archiviert vom Original am 11. Oktober 2013; abgerufen am 25. April 2012. (Abo benötigt)
Greg Cahill: Oh! Stephen Foster. In: Pacific Sun. Pacific Sun über HighBeam Research, 14. November 2008, archiviert vom Original am 11. Oktober 2013; abgerufen am 25. April 2012: „But popularity didn't translate into success. His ebullient "Oh! Susanna" became the theme song of the Gold Rush, but Foster earned just $100 for that hit because crooked publishers failed to pay his royalties.“ (Abo benötigt)
Rusty Marks: ON TELEVISION: Stephen Foster: Quintessential songwriter lived in music, died in ruin. In: Sunday Gazette-Mail. Gazette Daily Inc. über HighBeam Research, 22. April 2001, archiviert vom Original am 11. Oktober 2013; abgerufen am 25. April 2012: „The song, written in 1847, soon spread throughout the country. Foster decided to become a full-time songwriter, a vocation no one had bothered to pursue until then.“(Abo benötigt)
Terry Gross: The Lyrics And Legacy Of Stephen Foster. In: NPR Fresh Air.National Public Radio über HighBeam Research, 16. April 2010, archiviert vom Original am 8. August 2014; abgerufen am 25. April 2012: „Mr. EMERSON: I think that Stephen Foster really did create popular music as we still recognize it today. He did it because he took together all these strands of the American experience. That song is extremely Irish in its origins, just as other songs are extremely African-American, just as others are extremely Italian and operatic, or sometimes German, and even Czechoslovakian. For instance, the beat of "Oh! Susanna" is the beat of a polka. He's clearly effectively merged them into a single music. And I think he merged them in way that appeals to the multicultural mongrel experience of America in its history and culture.“ (Abo benötigt)
Foster Stephen C(ollins). In: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Gale über HighBeam Research, 2001, archiviert vom Original am 11. Oktober 2013; abgerufen am 25. April 2012. (Abo benötigt)
Greg Cahill: Oh! Stephen Foster. In: Pacific Sun. Pacific Sun über HighBeam Research, 14. November 2008, archiviert vom Original am 11. Oktober 2013; abgerufen am 25. April 2012: „But popularity didn't translate into success. His ebullient "Oh! Susanna" became the theme song of the Gold Rush, but Foster earned just $100 for that hit because crooked publishers failed to pay his royalties.“ (Abo benötigt)
Rusty Marks: ON TELEVISION: Stephen Foster: Quintessential songwriter lived in music, died in ruin. In: Sunday Gazette-Mail. Gazette Daily Inc. über HighBeam Research, 22. April 2001, archiviert vom Original am 11. Oktober 2013; abgerufen am 25. April 2012: „The song, written in 1847, soon spread throughout the country. Foster decided to become a full-time songwriter, a vocation no one had bothered to pursue until then.“(Abo benötigt)
Terry Gross: The Lyrics And Legacy Of Stephen Foster. In: NPR Fresh Air.National Public Radio über HighBeam Research, 16. April 2010, archiviert vom Original am 8. August 2014; abgerufen am 25. April 2012: „Mr. EMERSON: I think that Stephen Foster really did create popular music as we still recognize it today. He did it because he took together all these strands of the American experience. That song is extremely Irish in its origins, just as other songs are extremely African-American, just as others are extremely Italian and operatic, or sometimes German, and even Czechoslovakian. For instance, the beat of "Oh! Susanna" is the beat of a polka. He's clearly effectively merged them into a single music. And I think he merged them in way that appeals to the multicultural mongrel experience of America in its history and culture.“ (Abo benötigt)
