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Show Not Negro Songs. Most people fancy in a vf gue way hat Stephen Foster's song?; are negroid ne-groid or were inspired by the negro music. But "Old Folks r.t B ome" and the other Foster melodies an i about as unlike negro music as anytJ ling could possibly be. That their avords are often In negro dialect- mid express negro ne-gro sentiments is siroply a historic accident ac-cident due to the fact that, in Foster's day the negro minstrels, real or "corked," were the only ' means of hrineina music before the 'public. |