On the Banks of the Wabash : The Life and Music of Paul Dresser

by HENDERSON CLAYTON W.

• ISBN13: 9780871951663
• ISBN10: 0871951665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Indiana Historical Society

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xv
Prelude	xxv
Part One: Youth: 1858--1876
Terre Haute Days	3	(6)
Sullivan	9	(16)
St. Meinrad Abbey and Rebellion	25	(16)
Part Two: Apprenticeship: 1876--1886
Of Medicine Wagons and Minstrelsy	41	(10)
Evansville	51	(8)
Beyond Evansville	59	(8)
Sarah and Evansville	67	(8)
The Lady in Black	75	(6)
Chicago	81	(8)
The Mystery Years	89	(8)
Part Three: On the Road: 1886--1896
The Two Johns	97	(18)
A Tin Soldier	115	(20)
The Danger Signal	135	(18)
Howley, Haviland and Company	153	(8)
Brothers in the City	161	(10)
A Green Goods Man	171	(6)
``Just Tell Them That You Saw Me''	177	(22)
Part Four: Celebrity to Obscurity: 1897--1906
``On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away''	199	(20)
Patriotic Fervor and New Musical Directions	219	(10)
A ``Sister'' Discovered, More Fame, and Hints of Change	229	(8)
Masses, Classes, and Asses	237	(12)
Jimmy Bulger	249	(8)
Dreiser's Troubles	257	(10)
The Good Son, the Loving Brother	267	(10)
Parting of the Ways	277	(6)
``The People Are Marching By''	283	(10)
More Problems and Decline	293	(12)
Final Days	305	(8)
Memorials	313	(20)
Part Five: The Songs
The Creative Process and the Dissemination of Popular Songs	333	(6)
The Elements	339	(14)
Love, Religious, and Comic Songs	353	(12)
Patriotic Songs	365	(6)
Songs of Mother and Home	371	(20)
A Gift of Time and Place	391	(6)
Appendix 1: Alphabetical List of Published Compositions	397	(8)
Appendix 2: Chronological List of Published Compositions	405	(8)
Appendix 3: Undated Songs	413	(2)
Appendix 4: Unpublished Compositions	415	(2)
Notes	417	(32)
Bibliography	449	(6)
Index	455