W.C. Handy : the life and times of the man who made the blues /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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 à 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.