Music History 7 Books Ragtime Rhythm & Blues Soul W C Handy Joseph Lamb
This biography focuses on his music and his world, and is drawn from family and research sources. It includes a foreword by two of Lamb’s children. W. C. Handy (1873-1958) was 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.