W.C. Handy
Subtitle: the life and times of the man who made the blues
By: by David Robertson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780307266095
Subjects: Handy, W. C. -- 1873-1958; Composers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Charts Handy's rise from a rural Alabama childhood to become one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century, responsible for such iconic songs as "St. Louis Blues," "Memphis Blues," and "Beale Street Blues."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Slavery, the AME Church, and Emancipation : the Handy family of Alabama, 1811-1873; title: W. C. Handy and the music of black and white America, 1873-1896; title: Jumping Jim Crow : Handy as a traveling minstrel musician, 1896-1900; title: Aunt Hagar's ragtime son comes home to Alabama, 1900-03; title: Where the Southern Cross, the Yellow Dog : Handy and the Mississippi Delta, 1903-05; title: Mr. Crump don't low : the birth of the commercial blues, 1905-1909; title: Handy's Memphis copyright blues, 1910-1913; title: Tempo á blues : Pace & Handy, Beale Avenue music publishers,1913-1917; title: New York City : national success, the St. Louis blues, and the blues anthology, 1918-1926; title: Symphonies and movies, spirituals and politics, and W. C. Handy as perennial performer; title: 1927-1941; title: St. Louis blues, the final performance, 1958.