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W.C. Handy : the life and times of the man who made the blues / David Robertson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 286 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780307266095
  • 0307266095
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.421643092
LOC classification:
  • B ML 410 H236R 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
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 áa 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 perennial performer, 1927-1941 -- "St. Louis blues" : the final performance, 1958.
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B ML 410 E46H 1993 Beyond category : the life and genius of Duke Ellington / B ML 410 G381G 1985 Gershwin / B ML 410 G848S 1950 Grieg / B ML 410 H236R 2009 W.C. Handy : the life and times of the man who made the blues / B ML 410 J37G 2007 Víctor Jara : la vida truncada del cantor chileno, 1938-1973 / B ML 410 L318L 2008 Mi novia, la tristeza / B ML 410 L699d 1987 Duke Ellington /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 áa 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 perennial performer, 1927-1941 -- "St. Louis blues" : the final performance, 1958.

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