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Print Resources [Check I-Share for availability]
The land where the blues began
by
Lomax, Alan
ISBN: 0679404244
Publication Date: 1993
Deep blues
by
Palmer, Robert.
ISBN: 0670495115
Publication Date: 1981
King of the Delta blues : the life and music of Charlie Patton
by
by Stephen Calt and Gayle Wardlow.
ISBN: 0961861002
Publication Date: 1988
Directory of ethnomusicological sound recording collections in the U.S. and Canada.
by
Schuursma, Ann Briegleb
Publication Date: 1971
Delta blues : the life and times of the Mississippi Masters who revolutionized American music
by
Gioia, Ted.
ISBN: 0393062589
Publication Date: 2008
Music in German immigrant theater : New York City, 1840-1940
by
Koegel, John
ISBN: 1580462154
Publication Date: 2009
The Black-American musical heritage; a preliminary bibliography
by
De Lerma, Dominique-René.
Publication Date: 1969
Hard luck blues : roots music photographs from the Great Depression
by
Remsberg, Rich
ISBN: 0252077091
Publication Date: 2010
Ragged but right : black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz
by
Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
ISBN: 1578069017
Publication Date: 2007
Louisiana hayride : radio and roots music along the red river
by
Laird, Tracey E. W.
ISBN: 0195167511
Publication Date: 2005
Music of the Great Depression
by
William H. Young and Nancy K. Young
ISBN: 0313332304
Publication Date: 2005
Songs in Black and lavender : race, sexual politics, and women's music
by
Eileen M. Hayes ; foreword by Linda Tillery
ISBN: 0252076982
Publication Date: 2010
Rainbow quest : the folk music revival and American society, 1940-1970
by
Cohen, Ronald D.
ISBN: 1558493468
Publication Date: 2002
People get ready! : a new history of Black gospel music
by
Darden, Bob
ISBN: 0826414362
Publication Date: 2004
The American musical and the formation of national identity
by
Knapp, Raymond.
ISBN: 0691118647
Publication Date: 2005
The creation of jazz : music, race, and culture in urban America
by
Peretti, Burton W.
ISBN: 0252017080
Publication Date: 1992
The African roots of jazz
by
Fredrich Kaufman & John P. Guckin
ISBN: 0882840657
Publication Date: 1979
Jazz; new perspectives on the history of jazz by twelve of the world's foremost jazz critics and scholars
by
Edited by Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy
ISBN: 0306705923
Publication Date: 1975
Ramblin' on my mind : new perspectives on the blues
by
Evans, David
ISBN: 0252032039
Publication Date: 2008
Lift every voice : the history of African American music
by
Peretti, Burton W.
Publication Date: 2009
Roots of Black music : the vocal, instrumental, and dance heritage of Africa and Black America
by
Kebede, Ashenafi
ISBN: 0137831595
Publication Date: 1982
Musical aesthetics and multiculturalism in Los Angeles
by
Loza, Steven Joseph
Publication Date: 1994
West Coast jazz : modern jazz in California, 1945-1960
by
Gioia, Ted.
ISBN: 0195063104
Publication Date: 1992
Savannah syncopators; African retentions in the blues.
by
Oliver, Paul
ISBN: 0812813154
Publication Date: 1970
Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States
by
edited by Reinhold Brinkmann and Christoph Wolff
ISBN: 0520214137
Publication Date: 1999
Exploring roots music : twenty years of the JEMF quarterly
by
edited by Nolan Porterfield
ISBN: 0810848937
Publication Date: 2004
If Beale Street could talk : music, community, culture
by
Cantwell, Robert
ISBN: 0252075668
Publication Date: 2009
Folklife sourcebook : a directory of folklife resources in the United States
by
prepared by Peter T. Bartis and Hillary Glatt
ISBN: 0160430690
Publication Date: 1994
Introducing American folk music : ethnic and grassroot traditions in the United States
by
Lornell, Kip
ISBN: 0072414219
Publication Date: 2002
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The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas
by
Ohta, Horoaki; Ichikawa, Katsumori; Ichihashi, Yuji.
Call Number: DVD. M1627 .J35 2005
Publication Date: 1995
DVD
The story of jazz
by
directed by Matthew Seig ; written by Chris Albertson with Matthew Seig
Call Number: VHS 119
Publication Date: 1993
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