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Article: Memphis moves you! (includes recommended reading and visitor information)
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- American Visions
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
- Author:
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As the 20th century opened - and W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," arrived in the Mississippi River port - Memphis was raw, vibrant and seductive, and nowhere more so than on Beale Street, the heart of the African-American quarter. Beale Street swarmed with gamblers, loggers, boatmen and the city's respectable-by-day white elite. It also swarmed with musicians. Handy settled here in 1912 and quickly gave the United States its first original musical genre, the blues.
("Another night," Handy once explained, "my brother and I sat in a Beale Street barber shop till midnight. |When will you close up?' Charlie asked, yawning and stretching his arms. |Humph?' the ...
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