Description
- Notes:
- words and music by W.C. Handy
- For voice and piano, with chords for ukulele in D
- Caption title
- "The first successful 'blues' published"--Cover
- Sung by: Marion Harris
- Advertisements for "St. Louis blues" arranged for ukulele: p. [6]
- Cover illustration: drawing of cotton bale, photograph of St. Louis skyline incorporated into drawing / Natwick; photograph of Marion Harris
- Advertisement for "Blues: an anthology": cop. 2, p. [6]
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher),
"St. Louis blues"
(1914).
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s).
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:19823/
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Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
...This collection is a grouping of over 1,400 items dating from the 1830s to the 1920s. The contents of the collection depict representations of Black diasporic people and cultures through close to a century of illustrations and musical and lyrical …