Robertson, David,  1947- <br/><br/>
W.C. Handy :  the life and times of the man who made the blues / 
David Robertson. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf,  2009. 
 - x, 286 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307266095 0307266095 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008045983 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Handy, W. C. 1873-1958. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Composers--United States--Biography.<br/>Compositores estadounidenses--Biografías.<br/>Primera Jornada de Catalogación.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B ML 410  / H236R 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.421643092