Handy, W.C. - references

Bogaert, Karel. Blues Lexicon. Antwerp: Standard, 1972. 
 Good biographical information and a survey of significant Blues
literature, as well as a discography.

Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900-1950. Roger Kinkle,
ed. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974.
 Contains extensive worklist, less extensive discography.

De Lerma, Dominique-Rene and Marsha J. Reisser. Black Music and Musicians
in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard
Dictionary of Music (CBMR Monographs No: 1). Chicago: Columbia College
Center for Black Music Research, 1989.

Floyd, Jr., Samuel A. and Marsh J. Reisser. Black Music Biography: An
Annotated Bibliography. White Plains, New York: Kraus International
Publications, 1987. 
 Good, useful source. A handy starting point.

Floyd, Samuel A.,Jr. & Marshall J. Reisser. Black Music in the United
States: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Reference and Research
Materials. Millwood, NY: Krauss International, 1983.

Goodrich, John and Robert M. W. Dyer. Blues and Gospel Records, 1902-1942.
London: Storyville Publications, 1965.

Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1979.

Hart, Mary L., Brenda M. Eagles and Lisa N. Howarth. The Blues: A
Bibliographic Guide. Intro. by William Ferris. New York: Garland, 1989.

Herzhaft, Gerard. Encyclopedie du blues etude bio-discographique d'unee
musique populaire nˇgro-americaine. Lyon: Fedarop, 1979.
 Valuable for European perspective, at least for the scholar who reads
French.

Keinfield, B. "Blues." In New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don M.
Randel, 98-100. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Low, Augustus. Encyclopedia of Black Americans. NY: McGraw Hill, 1981.

New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 4 Vols. H. Wiley Hitchcock and
Stanley Sadie, eds. Stockton, NJ: Stockton Press, 1986.

New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz: with Spirituals and Ragtime. Paul Oliver,
ed. NY: Norton, 1986.

Oliver, Paul. "Blues." In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music,
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie, 1: 242-8. 4 vols. London:
Macmillan, 1986.

Skowronski, JoAnn. Black Music in America: A Bibliography. Metuchen, New
Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1981.
 Extremely helpful source, with extensive bibliography,
 near-comprehensive to 1981.

Southern, EIleen. "Handy, W. C." In The New Grove Dictionary of American
Music, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie, 2:318-19. 4 vols.
London: Macmillan, 1986.
 Slightly longer than Southern's NEW GROVE entry.

Southern, EIleen. "Handy, W. C." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, 8:144. 20 vols. London: Macmillan,
1980.

Vann, Kimberly R. Black Music in Ebony: An Annotated Guide to the Articles
in Ebony Magazine. Chicago: Columbia College Center for Black Music
Research, 1990.

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