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Aunt Hagar's Blues", variously known as "Aunt Hagar's Children" or "Aunt Hagar's Children's Blues", is a 1920 blues song which has since become a jazz standard. It was written by W. C. Handy and J Tim Brymn .
All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) is a collection of short stories by African-American author Edward P. Jones; it was his first book after winning the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for The Known World. The collection of 14 stories centers on African Americans in Washington D.C. during the 20th century.
The second story of each collection is about the schooling of some type and is told in the first person. Penny, the grocer, is introduced in "The Store," in Lost in the City, and she shows up in the title story of All Aunt Hagar's Children. In both of those stories, the narrator is a first-person man, but he has no name, and so on.
Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s. Her best-known tracks are "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues". [1]
Glenn Miller is credited with writing the song "I Swung the Election" which was recorded by Jack Teagarden in 1939. [1] [2] [3]Jack Teagarden recorded the song on July 19, 1939 in New York and released it as an A side 78 single as Columbia 35206A b/w "Aunt Hagar's Blues" and as a V-Disc, No. 823B, J1676, Swing, "XX" Release, issued in January, 1948, with the composer on the label listed as ...
Aunt Hagar's Children; My Sweetie Went Away; Jelly Roll Morton, on National: Muddy Water Blues; Sam Ash When Shall We Meet Again (4007-A) Charles Harrison That's How I Believe in You(4007-B) Eddie Peabody Tell Me Dreamy Eyes (40440-A) Indian Dawn - Minnetonka (40440-B) The Seven Syncopaters Take Me (40415-A) Susquenna Home (40415-B)
"All Aunt Hagar's Children: Edward P. Jones, B-Sides Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites 2021, John Plotz, ed. "Two Baths": Best American Essays 1991, Cynthia Ozick, guest ed.
In one such essay, The Negro Literary Renaissance which was included in "Aunt Hagar's Children", [55] [circular reference] Thurman sums up the situation thus: "Everyone was having a grand time. The millennium was about to dawn. The second emancipation [56] seemed inevitable. Then the excitement began to die down and Negroes as well as whites ...