{"id":1302,"date":"2018-05-02T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T16:05:05","slug":"handy-william-christopher-1873-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"HANDY, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, 1873-1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jazz musician, composer. Born&#8211; November 16, 1873, Florence. Parents&#8211; Charles Bernard and Elizabeth (Brewer) Handy. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Virginia Price, 1898. Children&#8211;six.\u00a0 Married (2) Irma Louise Logan, 1953.\u00a0Teacher in Birmingham for two years; laborer in Bessemer iron works, itinerant bricklayer and music teacher. Organizer and leader of a band which he took to the Chicago World&#8217;s Fair; leader and cornetist for Mahara&#8217;s Colored Minstrels. Helped form Pace and\u00a0Handy Music Company in Memphis in 1913; it became Handy Brothers\u00a0Music company in the 1920&#8217;s, and is still in operation today. \u00a0In the 1909 mayoral election in Memphis, Tennessee, Handy&#8217;s band was hired by candidate Edward Crump. Handy&#8217;s campaign song, &#8220;Mr. Crump,&#8221; was slightly changed to become &#8220;Memphis Blues.&#8221; Writer of &#8220;St. Louis Blues,&#8221; &#8220;Beale Street Blues,&#8221; &#8220;Mississippi Blues,&#8221; and more than sixty other songs. Known as &#8220;Father of the Blues.&#8221; &#8220;St. Louis Blues&#8221; is one of the most frequently recorded American musical compositions.\u00a0 Handy has been widely honored; a postage stamp with his picture appeared in 1969; his home in Florence is maintained as a museum; Florence holds an annual W.C.Handy Music Festival in his honor. Died March 28, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Encyclopedia of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Father of the Blues. New York; Macmillan, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Negro Authors and Composers of the United States. New York; Handy Brothers Music Co., 1938; rpt 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blues, an Anthology. New York; A. C. Boni, 1926.<\/p>\n<p>Unsung Americans Sung.\u00a0 Handy Brothers, 1946.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of W.C.Handy is held by the W. C. Handy Museum in Florence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Jazz musician, composer. Born&#8211; November 16, 1873, Florence. Parents&#8211; Charles Bernard and Elizabeth (Brewer) Handy. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Virginia Price, 1898. Children&#8211;six.\u00a0 Married (2) Irma Louise Logan, 1953.\u00a0Teacher in Birmingham for two years; laborer in Bessemer iron works, itinerant bricklayer and music teacher. Organizer and leader of a band which he took to the Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8004,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}