W.C. Handy : the life and times of the man who made the blues / / David Robertson

• Autore: Robertson David <1947 Aug. 11->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, [2011]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.421643092; B
• Soggetto topico: Composers - United States
• Note generali: Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2009.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references 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
• Titolo autorizzato: W.C. Handy
• ISBN: 0-8173-8604-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817729203321
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