W.C. Handy - music books



Baraka, Amiri. "Black Music: Its Roots, Its Popularity, Its Commercial

Prostitution." In Folk Music and Modern Sound, edited by William Ferris and

Mary L. Hart, 177-93. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982.



Barlow, William. "Looking Up and Down"--The Emergence of Blues Culture.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.



Bennet, Wayne. 3 Jazz Greats. Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., 1972.



Bontemps, Arna and Jack Conroy. Anyplace But Here. New York: Hill and Wang,

1966.



Cook, Bruce. Listen to the Blues. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973.



Ewen, David. Men of Popular Music. Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1944.



Fletcher, Tom. 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business: the Tom Fletcher

Story. New York: Burdge, 1954.



Horn, David. The Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music

Collections: a Fully Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press,

1977.



Lee, George W. Beale Street: Where the Blues Began. College Park, MD:

McGrath, 1934.



McKee, Margaret and Fred Chisenhall. Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music

on Black America's Main Street. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University

Press, c1981.



Oakley, Giles. The Devils' Music: A History of the Blues. New York: Tapling

Publishing Company. New York, 1976.



Oliver, Paul. Conversation with the Blues. New York: Horizon Press, 1965.



Oliver, Paul. The Story of the Blues. Hamondsworth: Penguin, 1972.



Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Blackface: A Source Book on Early Black Musical

Shows. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980.



Sanjek, Russell & David Sanjek. American Popular Music Business in the 20th

Century. NEW YORK: Oxford University Press, 1991.



Scarborough, Dorothy. On the Trial of Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge, Mass.:

Harvard University Press, 1925



Shaw, Arnold. Black Popular Music in America. New York: Schirmer, 1986.



Small, Christopher. Music of the Common Tongue. New York: Riverrun Press,

Inc. 1987.



Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. New York: W. W.

Norton, 1971. 2nd Ed.



Southern, Eileen. Readings in Black American Music. New York: W. W. Norton,

1972.



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