Father of the blues
Subtitle: an autobiography
By: by W.C. Handy,  edited by Arna Bontemps, with a foreword by Abbe Niles
Contributors: Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973
Publisher: The Macmillan company
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Handy, W. C. -- 1873-1958; Jazz; Blues (Music)
Description: Inscribed by W. C. Handy.   Handy's Hill -- Songbirds and School Days -- Wilberforce, Wallace and Wanderlust -- Mahara's Minstrel Men -- Work is the Measure of Worth -- Mississippi Mud -- "Pee Wee's," Pimps and Politics -- Memphis Blues - A Bungled Bargain -- St. Louis Blues and Solvent Bank -- Blue Diamonds in the Rough Polished and Mounted -- Mother -- From Beale Street to Broadway -- "Trouble, Trouble, I've Had it All my Days!" -- Peace & Handy - Setting a Pace -- All In - Down and Out -- The Blues Get Glorified -- No Fool No Fun -- Down Memory Lane -- "Way Down South Where the Blues Began" -- ASCAP -- Treasure Island -- Black and White -- World of Tomorrow - God Bless America Compositions, Arrangements and Books
Notes: Includes music

"Compositions, arrangements, and books by W. C. Handy": p. 305-308