Follow me : the life and music of R. Nathaniel Dett / by Simpson, Anne Key, 1924-2005

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Too marvelous for words : the life and genius of Art Tatum / by Lester, James

Table of Contents: “…Early development -- Early musical development -- A professional in Toledo -- New York and Chicago -- To California and Back -- The mind of a pianist -- 1939-1945 -- 1945-1949 : the be-bop years -- Tatum's "other" children -- 1950-1956.…”
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Humor in American song /

Table of Contents: “…Appalachian folk songs -- Revolutionary songs -- Early music hall songs -- Minstrel songs -- Songs with a Godey flavor -- Dialect songs -- Army and Navy songs -- Songs about work -- Liquor, circus, dude songs -- Barber shop ballads -- Parodies -- College songs.…”

Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…"Brian comes alive" : celebrity, performance, and the limitations of biography in lyric reading / Kirk Curnutt -- Pet sound effects / Daniel Harrison -- Brian Wilson's harmonic language / Philip Lambert -- Summer of '64 / Keir Keightly -- When I grow up : the Beach Boys' early music / Jadey O'Regan -- Into the Mystic? : the undergrounding of Brian Wilson, 1964-1967 / Dale Carter -- Good reverberations / Philip Lambert -- Fandom and ontology in Smile / Andrew Flory -- A listener's Smile / Larry Starr.…”

Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective /

Table of Contents: “…"Brian comes alive" : celebrity, performance, and the limitations of biography in lyric reading / Kirk Curnutt -- Pet sound effects / Daniel Harrison -- Brian Wilson's harmonic language / Philip Lambert -- Summer of '64 / Keir Keightly -- When I grow up : the Beach Boys' early music / Jadey O'Regan -- Into the Mystic? : the undergrounding of Brian Wilson, 1964-1967 / Dale Carter -- Good reverberations / Philip Lambert -- Fandom and ontology in Smile / Andrew Flory -- A listener's Smile / Larry Starr.…”
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Soul on soul : the life and music of Mary Lou Williams / by Kernodle, Tammy L., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…I dream a world -- Take me to Froggy Bottom : the early musical years -- From East Liberty (Pittsburgh) to Beale Street (Memphis) to Eighteenth and Vine (Kansas City) -- Until the real thing comes along : the Andy Kirk years (1931-42) -- How do you keep the music playing? …”
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Soul on soul : the life and music of Mary Lou Williams / by Kernodle, Tammy L. 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Take Me to Froggy Bottom, The Early Musical Years -- Chapter 3. From East Liberty (Pittsburgh) to Beale Street (Memphis) to Eighteenth and Vine (Kansas City) -- Chapter 4. …”
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Perspectives on American music, 1900-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Boyd -- The art of noise : John Cage, Lou Harrison, and the West Coast Percussion Ensemble / Leta Miller -- Melville Smith : organist, educator, early music pioneer, and American composer / Mark DeVoto -- Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra : high, middle, and low culture, 1937-1954 / Donald C. …”

Chinese émigré composers and divergent modernisms : Chen Yi and Zhou Long / by Chung, Mia

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Black fiddlers /

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Harpsichord in America : a twentieth-century revival / by Palmer, Larry

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The soundies : a history and catalog of jukebox film shorts of the 1940s / by Cantor, Mark

Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

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Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

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Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

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American popular music : a multicultural history / by Appell, Glenn

Table of Contents: “…The golden age of American popular song -- Tin Pan Alley and turn-of-the-century popular styles -- Vaudeville, early musical theater, and operetta -- The evolution of twentieth-century American musical theater -- Multicultural Broadway -- Great performers of American popular song -- The rise and fall of the Tin Pan Alley standard -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Study and discussion questions -- 7. …”

Odetta, the queen of folk / by Alcorn, Stephen

Jerome Kern / by Banfield, Stephen, 1951-

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35 song hits by great Black songwriters /