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W.C. Handy :

0817356967 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780817356965 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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W.C. Handy :

[Book]

the life and times of the man who made the blues /

David Robertson

Tuscaloosa, Ala. :

University of Alabama Press,

[2011]

286 p., [8] p. of plates :

ill. ;

23 cm

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2009

Includes bibliographical references ([269]-271) and index

A view of Mr. Handy: one afternoon in Memphis, 1918 -- Slavery, the AME CHurch, and emancipation: The Handy Family of Alabama, 1811-1873 -- W. C. Handy and the music of black and white America, 1873-1896 -- Jumping Jim Crow: Handy as a traveling minstrel musician, 1896-1900 -- Aunt Hagar's ragtime son comes home to Alabama, 1900-1903 -- Where the southern crosses the yellow dog: Handy and the Mississippi Delta, 1903-1905 -- Mr. Crump don't 'low: the birth of the commercial blues, 1905-1909 -- Handy's Memphis copyright blues: 1910-1913 -- Tempo a blues: Pace & Handy, Beale Avenue Music Publishers, 1913-1917 -- New York City: national success, the "St. Louis blues", and Blues: an anthology, 1918-1926 -- Symphonies and movies, spirituals and politics, and W. C. Handy as a perennial performer, 1927-1941 -- "St. Louis blues": the final performance, 1958

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Life and times of the man who made the blues

Handy, W. C., (William Christopher),1873-1958

Blues (Music)-- History and criticism

Blues musicians-- United States, Biography

Composers-- United States, Biography

Robertson, David,1947 August 11-

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