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

Main Author: Robertson, David, 1947 Aug. 11-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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100 1 |a Robertson, David,  |d 1947 Aug. 11- 
245 1 |a W.C. Handy :  |b the life and times of the man who made the blues /  |c David Robertson. 
250 1 |a 1st ed. 
260 1 |a New York :  |b Alfred A. Knopf,  |c 2009. 
300 1 |a x, 286 p., [8] p. of plates :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index. 
505 1 |a 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 
600 1 |a Handy, W. C.  |d 1873-1958. 
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