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Blues Paperback - 1990

by W. C. Handy

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In 1926, W.C. Handy published Blues: An Anthology, a classic collection of great blues songs arranged for piano and voice--the most famous blues collection in history. Among the first black men to write and publish blues music, Handy (1873-1958) did more than anyone else to make blues popular and accepted. The composer of "Memphis Blues," "St. Louis Blues," and "Beale Street Blues," Handy became widely recognized as "The Father of Blues."Revised in 1949 and 1972, this edition of Handy's anthology incorporates the music to more than fifty songs with Abbe Nile's introductory historical notes that discuss blues as music, as verse, as an influence on jazz and popular song, and W. C. Handy and his place in music history. In addition to Handy's tunes and arrangements such as "East St. Louis," "Juba," "Yellow Dog Blues," and "Aunt Hagar's Children," there are notes for each song, a bibliography, and a chart of guitar chords. The text is supplemented with an outstanding new introduction by William Ferris, and highlighted by a series of striking drawings and lithographs by the renowned Mexican illustrator Miguel Covarrubias (1902-1957).

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THE blues sprang up, probably within the last quarter-century, among illiterate and more or less despised classes of Southern Negroes: barroom pianists, careless nomadic laborers, watchers of incoming trains and steamboats, street-corner guitar players, strumpets and outcasts.

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  • Title Blues
  • Author W. C. Handy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A
  • Publication date September 1990
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306804113 / 0306804115
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.96 x 8.08 x 0.7 in (27.84 x 20.52 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Blues (Music) - To 1931 - History and, Blues (Music) - To 1931
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90039076
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

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Bedford MA: Applewood Books, 1990. Paperback. 224p., Covarrubias' wonderful paintings reproduced fullpage in b&w; the bulk of the text is comprised of music notation and lyrics. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch decorated wraps. Slight edgewear to covers and some book-seller's pencilling to half-title (erasable), this is a sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.
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