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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465556603321

Autore

Robertson David <1947 Aug. 11->

Titolo

W. C. Handy [[electronic resource] ] : The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues / / David Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, [2011]

ISBN

0-8173-8604-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

782.42164309

782.421643092

Soggetti

Composers - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, 1910-1913Chapter Eight: Tempo à 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; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 raci

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782621903321

Autore

Okeke-Ihejirika Philomina E (Philomina Ezeagbor)

Titolo

Negotiating power and privilege [[electronic resource] ] : Igbo career women in contemporary Nigeria / / Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens [Ohio], : Center for International Studies, Ohio University, c2004

ISBN

0-89680-438-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; ; no. 82

Disciplina

305.48/8963320669

Soggetti

Women, Igbo - Social conditions

Women, Igbo - Economic conditions

Women, Igbo - Employment

Women employees - Nigeria

Working mothers - Nigeria

Sex role - Government policy - Nigeria

Women - Government policy - Nigeria

Sexual division of labor - Nigeria

Nigeria Social conditions

Nigeria Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Placing Igbo women within an African context -- Gender relations in family and society -- From housewives to career women -- Your life is not entirely your business -- Gendered lives, gendered aspirations -- Making it in paid employment -- Balancing act -- Ours is ours but my own is my own -- Looking to the future.