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001 2008045983
003 DLC
005 20090520072719.0
008 081020s2009 nyuaf b 001 0beng
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020 $a0307266095
035 $a(OCoLC)232980291
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050 00 $aML410.H18$bR63 2009
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100 1 $aRobertson, David,$d1947 Aug. 11-
245 10 $aW.C. Handy :$bthe life and times of the man who made the blues /$cDavid Robertson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2009.
300 $ax, 286 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index.
505 0 $aA 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 10 $aHandy, W. C.$q(William Christopher),$d1873-1958.
650 0 $aComposers$zUnited States$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2008045983-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2008045983-d.html