Research Catalog
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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MIRS Lewis 1987-51 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Details
- 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).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MIRS Lewis 1987-51