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050 00 $aML410.H18$bR63 2009
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100 1 $aRobertson, David.
245 10 $aW.C. Handy :$bthe life and times of the man who made the blues /$cby David Robertson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$cc2009.
263 $a0903
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aSlavery, 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, 1900-03 -- Where the Southern Cross, the Yellow Dog : Handy and the Mississippi Delta, 1903-05 -- Mr. Crump don't low : the birth of the commercial blues, 1905-1909 -- Handy's Memphis copyright blues, 1910-1913 -- Tempo á blues : Pace & Handy, Beale Avenue music publishers,1913-1917 -- New York City : national success, the St. Louis blues, and the blues 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.