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

Papers/Dissertations


Papers/Dissertations
Aloisio, Gerard Salvatore.  A Historical Summary of Major Musical 
	Developments in American Jazz from the end of World War I to the 
	Beginning of World War II (Interwar Period).  D.M.A., University of 
	Cincinnati, 1995.

Faulkner, Scott David.  Norman and Duke: A Look at the Relationship between 
	Norman Granz and Duke Ellington (Ella Fitzgerald). D. Mus., University 
	of Nevada, Reno, 1996.

Harris, Paisley Jane.  I'm as Good as any Woman in your Town: the 
	Interconnections of Gender, Race, and Class in the Blues of Ma Rainey 
	and Bessie Smith.  M.A., University of Minnesota, 1994

Johnson, Maria Virginia.  Voices of Struggle: an Exploration of the Relationship
	between African-American Women's Music and Literature (Reagan 
	Bernice Johnson, Smith, Bessie, Walker Alice, Huston Zora Neale).  
	Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.

Lieb, Sandra Robin.  The Message of Ma Rainey's Blues: a Biographical
	and Critical Study of America's First Woman Blues Singer.  Ph.D 
	dissertation, Stanford University, 1976.

Robinson, Beverly Jean.  Beyond Folktype and Stereotype (American Cultural
	History Through the Eyes of Edith Wilson).  Ph.D. dissertation, University
	of Pennsylvania, 1983.

Smith, Jo Ann Collins.  The Musical Performance History of Lena Horne:	
	Singer-Actress with Implications for Collegiate Ethnic Curriculum.
	Ph.D dissertation, Kansas State University, 1984.	

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