Teaching Disability into History: History, Disability Studies and Blues Music
Intertwined: History, Disability, and Blues Music by Jonathan Lower (SUNY) Buffalo The classic folk story of American blues music recounts W. C. Handy’s discovery of the blues form while waiting for a train in Tutwiler, Mississippi. In his autobiography Handy, the “Father of the Blues,” remembers, “A lean loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a…