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| Format | Book |
| Author |
 Robertson, David, 1947 Aug. 11-
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| Title |
W.C. Handy : the life and times of the man who made the blues / David Robertson.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publisher | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. |
| Physical Descrip. | x, 286 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject(s) |
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958.
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| Subject(s) |
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN | 9780307266095 |
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AC Frost Library
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HC Library Center
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MH Pierce Stevens Lib-Pratt
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SC Josten Library
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UM Du Bois Library
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