W.C. Handy, Biography, Songs, Books, & Facts
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Last updated 15 Jul 2024
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W.C. Handy, American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into then fashionable ragtime music. Among his best-known works is the classic ‘St. Louis Blues.’ He also issued anthologies of African American spirituals and blues and studies of Black musicians.
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