Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Paperback)

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W. C. At hand’s blues—“Memphis Blues,” “Beale Street Blues,” “St. Louis Blues”—changed The us’s music perpetually. In Father of the Blues, At hand presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now vanished. W. C. At hand (1873–1958) was once 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 theater. Here At hand tells of this and other struggles: the lot of a black musician with entertainment groups within the turn-of-the-century South; his days in minstrel shows, after which 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 creator; his association with the literati of the Harlem Renaissance.At hand’s remarkable tale—pervaded along with his unique personality and humor—reveals not only the career of the man who brought the blues to the world’s attention, but the entire scope of American music, from the days of the old popular songs of the South, through ragtime to the nice era of jazz.

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