From "Hustlin' Blues" to "Strange Fruit"

African Musical Retentions

in the Evolution of Jazz Singing Style

circa 1920-1945

Dr. Ann G. P. Solberg and Elizabeth McQueary

Funded by the Appalachian College Association, Summer 1997

Selective Bibliography, A-G

Albertson, Chris.  Bessie.  New York: Stein and Day, 1972.

*Anderson, Jervis. Harlem: The Great Black Way 1900-1950. Washington DC:
	New Republic Book, 1980;

Arnaud, Gerald and Jaques Chesnel.  Masters of Jazz.  New York: Larousse
	Kingfisher Chambers, 1992.

Balliet, Whitney.  American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz.  
	New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

*Balliet, Whitney.  American Singers: Twenty-Seven Portraits in Song. 
	New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Balliett, Whitney.  Improvising: Sixteen Jazz Musicians and Their Art.
	New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

*Balliet, Whitney.  Jelly Roll, Jabbo, and Fats: 19 Portraits in Jazz.
	New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Baker, Houston A.  Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature:
	A Vernacular Theory.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 
	1987.

Baraka, Imamu Amiri.  Blues People: Negro Music in White America.
	New York: W. Morrow, 1963.

Baraka, Imamu Amiri.  The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues.
	New York: Morrow, 1987.

Barlow, William.  Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture.  
	New York: Temple University Press, 1990.

Bernal, Martin.  Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
	Civilization.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. 

*Berendt, Joachime.  The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond.
	New York: Lawrence Hill, 1992.

Bernhardt, Clyde E.  I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, 
	Big Bands, & the Blues.  Philadelphia, PA: University of 
	Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Berry, Mary Frances and John W. Blassingame.  Long Memory: The
	Black Experience in America.  New York: Oxford University 
	Press, 1982.

*Bourgeois, Anna Stong.  Blues Woman: Profiles of 37 Early Performers 
	with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945.   Jefferson, NC: 
	McFarland & Co., Inc., 1996. 

Bradley, Arthur.  Silver Threads.  El Paso, TX: Aplomb Publishing, 1994. 

Buerkle, Jack V. and Danny Barker.  Bourbon Street Black: the New
	Orleans Black Jazzmen.  New York: Oxford University Press, 
	1973.

Carruth, Hayden.  Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, & 
	Related Topics.  Iowa City:University of Iowa Press, 1993.

*Charters, Samuel.  The Blues Makers.  New York: Da Capo Press, 
	1991.

Cherry, Gwendolyn, Ruby Thomas and Pauline Willis.  Portraits In Color: 
	The Lives of Colorful Negro Women.  New York: Oageant Press, 1962.

*Chilton, John  Billie's Blues: Billie Holiday's Story 1933-1959.  
	New York: Stein and Day,  1978. 

Clarke, Donald.  Wishing on the Moon: the Life and Times of Billie Holiday.
	New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.

Cohn, Lawrence, ed.  Nothing but the Blues: The Music and Musicians.  
	New York: Abbeville Press, 1993.

*Collier, James Lincoln.  Jazz: The American Theme Song.  New York: 
	Oxford University Press, 1993.

Condon, Eddie and Thomas Sugrue.  We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz.  
	New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.

Cone, James H.  The Spirituals and the Blues: an Interpretation.
	New York: Seabury Press, 1972.

Cook, Bruce.  Listen to the Blues.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.

*Cooper, Sarah, ed.  Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music.
	New York: New York University Press, 1996.

*Crowther, Bruce and Mike Pinfold.  The Jazz Singers: From Ragtime to the 
	New Wave.  New York:  Sterling Publishing, 1986.

*Dahl, Linda.  Stormy Weather:  The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazz 
	Women.  New York: Proscenium Pub. Inc., 1984.

Davis, Francis.  The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the
	People-from Charley Patton to Robert Cray.  New York: 
	Hyperion, 1995.

*Davis, Francis.  Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, & Singers.  
	New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Dennison, Sam.  Scandalize My Name: Black Imagery in American
	Popular Music.  New York: Garland Pub., Inc.,  1982.  

Ellison, Mary.  Lyrical Protest: Black Music's Struggle Against
	Discrimination.  New York: Craeger, 1989.

Epstein, Dena J.  Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the 
	Civil War.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Feather, Leonard.  From Satchmo to Miles.  New York: Da Capo, 1987.

Feather, Leonard.  The Pleasures of Jazz.  New York: Delta Books, 
	1976.

Fidelman, Geoffrey M.  First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald: For the Record.  
	Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1994.

Finn, Julio.  The Bluesman: the Musical Heritage of Black Men and 
	Women in the Americas.  Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing 
	Group, 1992

Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.  Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance: A 
	Collection of Essays.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Fordham, John.  Jazz.  New York: D. K. Publishing, 1993.

Friedwald, Will.  America's Greatest Voices: from Bessie Smith to Bebop and 
	Beyond.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990.

Garm, Paul.  Blues and Poetic Spirit.  Roots of Jazz.  New York:
	Da Capo Press, 1996.

Garon, Paul and Beth Garon.  Women with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's 
	Blues.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.

*Giddins, Gary.  Riding On A Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop.
	New York: Oxford U., 1981. 

Gitler, Ira.  Jazz Masters of the 40's.  New York: Macmillan and Co., 
	1966.

Gleason, Ralph J.  Celebrating the Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, 
	Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and Other Heroes.  Boston: Little Brown 
	and Co., 1975. 

*Gourse, Leslie.  Louis' Children: American Jazz Singers.  New York:
	Quill, 1984. 

Gourse, Leslie.  Swingers and Crooners: The Art of Jazz Singing.  
	Danbury, CT: Franklin Watts Inc., 1997.

Govenar, Alan.  Meeting the Blues.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.

Green, Benny.  The Reluctant Art: the Growth of Jazz.  New York:
	Horizon Press, 1963.

Gridley, Mark C.  Jazz Styles: History & Analysis.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 
	Prentice Hall, 1996.

*Grimes, Kitty.  Jazz Voices.  New York: Quartet Books, 1983.

Guralnick, Peter.  Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock
	n' Roll.  New York: Harper Collins Publ., 1989.  
	

*Annotated Bibliography, A-G

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