Search results for "W.C. Handy" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of his day and, in particular, by W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." The sound of the blues opens the symphony. Still and George ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- She followed that success in 1925 with W.C. Handy's song "St. Louis ... the role by the song's composer W.C. Handy, who was also a collaborator ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- since 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee with W. C. Handy's "Memphis Blues". ... using a knife blade, recorded by W.C. Handy in his autobiography, corresponds ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and W.C. Handy. Bands playing in the West Coast style use banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections, which play in ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- jazz, spirituals and the symphonic music of W.C. Handy's Orchestra and Jubilee singers. The first major film musical with a black cast was King ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, W.C. Handy took blues across the tracks and made it respectable, even "high-toned." ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020