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MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 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.
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