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Father Of The Blues - An Autobiography (Paperback, Revised)
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Father Of The Blues - An Autobiography (Paperback, Revised)
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W. C. Handy's blues, Memphis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "St.
Louis Blues",changed America's music forever. In Father of the
Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American
life now vanished. W. C. Handy (1873-1958) was a sensitive child
who loved nature and music but not until he had won a reputation
did his father, a preacher of stern Calvinist faith, forgive him
for following the "devilish" calling of black music and theatre.
Here Handy tells of this and other struggles: the lot of a black
musician with entertainment groups in the turn-of-the-century South
his days in minstrel shows, and then in his own band how he made
his first 100 from "Memphis Blues" how his orchestra came to grief
with the First World War his successful career in New York as
publisher and song writer his association with the literati of the
Harlem Renaissance.Handy's remarkable tale,pervaded with his unique
personality and humour,reveals not only the career of the man who
brought the blues to the world's attention, but the whole scope of
American music, from the days of the old popular songs of the
South, through ragtime to the great era of jazz.
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