W. C. Handy

Person · Open Library

Born

1873

Died

1958

Works

9

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Film & TV

Sound · Florence, Alabama, USA

Known for

• Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music — Self1993
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self1948
• The Negro Soldier — Self (archive footage)1944

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1873-11-16

Active to

1958-03-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

17,217

Total plays

53,019

William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues". Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the blues, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/W.C.+Handy">Rea

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A new hybrid exchange–correlation functional using the Coulomb-attenuating method (CAM-B3LYP)

   · 2004 · cited 14,033x

2. Nanomaterials in the environment: Behavior, fate, bioavailability, and effects

   · 2008 · cited 2,416x

3. Left-right correlation energy

   · 2001 · cited 1,542x

4. Built Environment Correlates of Walking

   · 2008 · cited 1,526x

5. Clinical impact of COVID-19 on patients with cancer (CCC19): a cohort study

   · 2020 · cited 1,413x

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Key dates

Born

16 November 1873

Died

29 March 1958

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Christopher

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Florence

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Grammy Trustees Award

Notable work

Beale Street Blues