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Katherine Handy Lewis audio and moving image collection.

Title
Katherine Handy Lewis audio and moving image collection.
Author
Lewis, Katherine Handy, 1902-1982
Publication
[1987]

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Mixed materialUse in library Sc MIRS Lewis 1987-51Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Additional Authors
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
Description
  • 2 audiocassettes
  • 1 videocassette
Summary
The collection consists of 2 audio recordings and 1 moving image recording commemorating the music of W. C. Handy.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Sound recordings.
  • Video recordings.
Note
  • Katherine Handy Lewis was an early blues singer who was the first to sing the songs written by her father, W.C. Handy.Born in Normal, Alabama in 1902, her family moved to Harlem, New York in 1919. Mrs. Lewis performed at an historic concert at Carnegie Hall in 1928, the first evening of African American music presented in the then bastion of white music. At the concert, she sang "St. Louis Blues," written by her father, and one of the first blues songs ever published. During the 1920s and 1930, Mrs. Lewis sang on the radio. Later she married Homer D. Lewis and retired from performing to raise a family. She stayed active, however, in the company founded by her father, Handy Brothers Music Company, of which she was president for a time. Mrs. Lewis died in 1982.
Linking Entry (note)
  • See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Katherine Handy Lewis papers, 1925-1983. (Sc MG 336). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Katherine Handy Lewis Collection).
Call Number
Sc MIRS Lewis 1987-51
OCLC
1198928709
Author
Lewis, Katherine Handy, 1902-1982, creator.
Title
Katherine Handy Lewis audio and moving image collection.
Publisher
[1987]
Linking Entry
See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Katherine Handy Lewis papers, 1925-1983. (Sc MG 336). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division (Sc Photo Katherine Handy Lewis Collection).
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Added Author
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958.
Research Call Number
Sc MIRS Lewis 1987-51
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