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W.C. Handy

W.C. Handy, the “Dad from the Blues,” brought the music of rural Southern blacks in to the mainstream by copyrighting previous music and writing brand-new music, spurring the blues in to the mainstream of well-known music through the 1910s and ’20s. He was also an extremely trained veteran from the …

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