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" W.C. Handy : "
David Robertson
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BL
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636840
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Robertson, David,1947 August 11-
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| Title & Author
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W.C. Handy : : the life and times of the man who made the blues /\ David Robertson
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| Publication Statement
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :: University of Alabama Press,, [2011]
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286 p., [8] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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9780817356965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0817356967 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references ([269]-271) and index
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| Contents
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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 a 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 a perennial performer, 1927-1941 -- "St. Louis blues": the final performance, 1958
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Handy, W. C., (William Christopher),1873-1958
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Composers-- United States, Biography
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Blues musicians-- United States, Biography
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Blues (Music)-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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782.421643092B
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ML410.H18R63 2011
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Life and times of the man who made the blues
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