Handy, W.C. - references Bogaert, Karel. Blues Lexicon. Antwerp: Standard, 1972. Good biographical information and a survey of significant Blues literature, as well as a discography. Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz 1900-1950. Roger Kinkle, ed. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1974. Contains extensive worklist, less extensive discography. De Lerma, Dominique-Rene and Marsha J. Reisser. Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard Dictionary of Music (CBMR Monographs No: 1). Chicago: Columbia College Center for Black Music Research, 1989. Floyd, Jr., Samuel A. and Marsh J. Reisser. Black Music Biography: An Annotated Bibliography. White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987. Good, useful source. A handy starting point. Floyd, Samuel A.,Jr. & Marshall J. Reisser. Black Music in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Reference and Research Materials. Millwood, NY: Krauss International, 1983. Goodrich, John and Robert M. W. Dyer. Blues and Gospel Records, 1902-1942. London: Storyville Publications, 1965. Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1979. Hart, Mary L., Brenda M. Eagles and Lisa N. Howarth. The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide. Intro. by William Ferris. New York: Garland, 1989. Herzhaft, Gerard. Encyclopedie du blues etude bio-discographique d'unee musique populaire nˇgro-americaine. Lyon: Fedarop, 1979. Valuable for European perspective, at least for the scholar who reads French. Keinfield, B. "Blues." In New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don M. Randel, 98-100. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. Low, Augustus. Encyclopedia of Black Americans. NY: McGraw Hill, 1981. New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 4 Vols. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, eds. Stockton, NJ: Stockton Press, 1986. New Grove Gospel, Blues and Jazz: with Spirituals and Ragtime. Paul Oliver, ed. NY: Norton, 1986. Oliver, Paul. "Blues." In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie, 1: 242-8. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1986. Skowronski, JoAnn. Black Music in America: A Bibliography. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1981. Extremely helpful source, with extensive bibliography, near-comprehensive to 1981. Southern, EIleen. "Handy, W. C." In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie, 2:318-19. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1986. Slightly longer than Southern's NEW GROVE entry. Southern, EIleen. "Handy, W. C." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, 8:144. 20 vols. London: Macmillan, 1980. Vann, Kimberly R. Black Music in Ebony: An Annotated Guide to the Articles in Ebony Magazine. Chicago: Columbia College Center for Black Music Research, 1990. 4/92