W C Handy The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues 1st Edition by David Robertson, Knoo ISBN 9780817356965 0817356967
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ISBN 10: 0817356967
ISBN 13: 9780817356965
Author: David Robertson, Knoo
David Robertson charts W. C. Handy’s rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century. The child of former slaves, Handy was first inspired by spirituals and folk songs, and his passion for music pushed him to leave home as a teenager, despite opposition from his preacher father. Handy soon found his way to St. Louis, where he spent a winter sleeping on cobblestone docks before lucking into a job with an Indiana brass band. It was in a minstrel show, playing to racially mixed audiences across the country, that he got his first real exposure as a professional musician, but it was in Memphis, where he settled in 1905, that he hit his full stride as a composer. At once a testament to the power of song and a chronicle of race and black music in America, W. C. Handy’s life story is in many ways the story of the birth of our country’s indigenous culture—and a riveting must read for anyone interested in the history of American music.
Table of contents:
PROLOGUE
A View of Mr. Handy: One Afternoon in Memphis, 1918
CHAPTER ONE
Slavery, the AME Church, and Emancipation: The Handy Family of Alabama, 1811-1873
CHAPTER TWO
W. C. Handy and the Music of Black and White America, 1873-1896
CHAPTER THREE
Jumping Jim Crow: Handy as a Traveling Minstrel Musician, 1896-1900
CHAPTER FOUR
Aunt Hagar’s Ragtime Son Comes Home to Alabama, 1900-1903
CHAPTER FIVE
Where the Southern Crosses the Yellow Dog: Handy and the Mississippi Delta, 1903-1905
CHAPTER SIX
Mr. Crump Don’t ‘Low: The Birth of the Commercial Blues, 1905-1909
CHAPTER SEVEN
Handy’s Memphis Copyright Blues, 1910-1913
CHAPTER EIGHT
Tempo to Blues: Pace & Handy, Beale Avenue
Music Publishers, 1913-1917
CHAPTER NINE
New York City: National Success, the “St. Louis Blues,” and Blues: An Anthology, 1918-1926
CHAPTER TEN
Symphonies and Movies, Spirituals and Politics, and W. C. Handy as Perennial Performer, 1927-1941
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“St. Louis Blues”: The Final Performance, 1958
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