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W. C. Handy's blues : an anthology : complete words and music of 70 great songs and instrumentals / with historical text by Abbe Niles ; edited, with introduction by Elliott S. Hurwitt ; pictures by Miguel Covarrubias.

by Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958.

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Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2012.

Blues (Music) -- History and criticism.

9780486486192 (pbk.) :

0486486192 (pbk.)

1 score (xii, 281 p.) ; 28 cm.

The folk-blues as verse -- The folk-blues as music -- William Christopher Handy -- The modern blues and jazz -- The pioneers -- Influence of the blues on popular song -- Blues and recent jazz -- Train's a-comin' -- Let us cheer the weary traveller -- Somebody's wrong about dis Bible -- Joe Jacobs -- Goin' to see my Sarah -- Sail away, ladies -- Come on, Eph! -- Juba -- East St. Louis -- A typical stomp -- Careless love -- Ever after on -- Vesta and Mattie's blues -- Got no mo' home dan a dog -- Friendless blues -- The Memphis blues -- Dallas blues -- The jogo blues -- St. Louis blues --Yellow dog blues -- Golden brown blues -- Stingaree blues -- Florida blues -- The hesitating blues -- Joe Turner blues -- The snakey blues -- Wall Street blues -- Beal Street blues -- Tishomingo blues -- Hooking cow blues -- Blue gummed blues -- Blind man blues -- Deep river blues -- Goin' down that long long lonesome road -- Aunt Hagar's children -- Aunt Hagar's children blues -- Loveless love -- Sundown blues -- The basement blues -- Way down south where the blues began -- Basin Street blues -- The blues I've got -- Boogie-woogie on St. Louis blues -- Shoeboot's serenade -- The gouge of Armour Avenue -- Ole Miss -- Harlem blues -- John Henry blues -- Atlanta blues -- The Chicago gouge -- Chantez les bas -- Long gone -- The blues (but I'm too blamed mean to cry) -- Baby seals blues -- New York tango blues -- The long lost blues -- Kansas City -- Rice Hotel blues -- A bunch of blues -- The weary blues -- Barnyard blues (Livery stable blues) -- West Texas blues -- Royal Garden blues -- Gulf Coast blues -- Weeping willow blues (after Bessie Smith) -- Banjo blues -- Mississippi blues (Bamville croon) -- Mountain top blues (Blue mama's suicide wail) -- Rock pile blues (Mama's prison yard blues)

"... a new compilation of music selected from the original publication by Charles Boni and distributed by Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York copyright c1926, 1949, and later revised by Macmillan, New York copyright c1972, 1990 and other early authoritative sources"--T.p. verso.

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