W. C. Handy (English Wikipedia)

Handy, William Christoper (1941). Father of the Blues: An Autobiography. New York: Macmillan. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-306-80421-2.
Scarborough, Dorothy; Gulledge, Ola Lee (1925). On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs. Harvard University Press. p. 269. In recounting the same story to Dorothy Scarborough about 1925, Handy remembered a banjo, guitar, and fiddle.

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Evans, David (2001). Handy, W(illiam) C(hristopher). doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.12322. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved September 13, 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
Gurrow, Adam (Winter 2018). "W. C. Handy and the "birth" of the Blues". Southern Cultures. 24 (4): 42–68. doi:10.1353/scu.2018.0045. S2CID 150008950.
Johnson, Mark A. (Summer 2014). ""The best notes make the best votes": W. C. Handy, E. H. Crump, and Black music as politics". Southern Cultures. 20 (2): 52–68. doi:10.1353/scu.2014.0017. S2CID 144909496 – via RILM.
Gussow, Adam (Fall 2002). "Racial Violence, "Primitive" Music, and the Blues Entrepreneur: W. C. Handy's Mississippi Problem". Southern Cultures. 8 (3): 56–77. doi:10.1353/scu.2002.0029. S2CID 145798645 – via RILM.

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"The Pittsburgh Courier from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". Newspapers.com. October 16, 1926. p. 10. Retrieved January 22, 2018.

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Lynn Ames (April 7, 1996). "Father of the Blues Is Remembered In Mt. Vernon Show". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2021.

Gurrow, Adam (Winter 2018). "W. C. Handy and the "birth" of the Blues". Southern Cultures. 24 (4): 42–68. doi:10.1353/scu.2018.0045. S2CID 150008950.
Johnson, Mark A. (Summer 2014). ""The best notes make the best votes": W. C. Handy, E. H. Crump, and Black music as politics". Southern Cultures. 20 (2): 52–68. doi:10.1353/scu.2014.0017. S2CID 144909496 – via RILM.
Gussow, Adam (Fall 2002). "Racial Violence, "Primitive" Music, and the Blues Entrepreneur: W. C. Handy's Mississippi Problem". Southern Cultures. 8 (3): 56–77. doi:10.1353/scu.2002.0029. S2CID 145798645 – via RILM.

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Semien, John (January 16, 2020). "Handy Park makeover signals more than an updated venue". TSDMemphis.com. Retrieved August 7, 2020.

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"Historic W.C. Handy Theater Will Be Demolished". WREG.com. November 19, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2023.

"Year of the Blues 2003". 107th Congress of the United States, Senate Resolution 316. September 5, 2002. Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved January 31, 2005.