Arsenault, Raymond.  The sound of freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America.  ML420 .A6 A77 2009

Beckner, Chrisanne.  100 African-Americans who shaped American history.  E185.96 .B365 1995

Brooks, Tilford.  America’s black musical heritage.  ML3556 .B76 1984

Brown, James.  I feel good: a memoir of a life of soul.  ML420 .B818 A3 2005

Brown, James.  Soul survivor.  DVD.  ML420 .B818 S68x 2003

Collier, James Lincoln.  Louis Armstrong: an American genius.  ML419 .A75 C64 1983

Curtis, Susan.  Dancing to a Black man’s tune:  a life of Scott Joplin.   ML410 .J75 G87 1994

Eastwood, Clint.  Piano blues: a film by Clint Eastwood.  DVD.  ML3521 .M37 2003B part 3

Ewen, David.  The life and death of Tin Pan Alley: the golden age of American popular music. 

ML200 .E965

Forman, Murray and Mark Anthony Neal, eds.  That’s the joint! The hip-hop studies reader. 

ML3531 .T43 2004

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Cornel West.  The African American century: how Black Americans shaped our country.  E185.96 .G38 2000

Gourse, Leslie.  The Billie Holiday companion: seven decades of commentary.  ML420 .H58 B45 1997

Haskins, James, with Kathleen Benson.  Scott Joplin.  ML410 .J75 H34

Hess, Mickey, ed.  Icons of hip hop.  ML394 .I26 2007 v. 2

Jefferson, Margo.  On Michael Jackson.  ML420 .J175 J44 2006

Johnson, James Weldon.  Lift every voice and sing: a pictorial tribute to the Negro national anthem.

ML3561 .L54 J64x 2000

Jones, Arthur C.  Wade in the water: the wisdom of the spirituals.   ML3556 .J72 1993

Jones, LeRoi.  Blues people: the Negro experience in White America and the music that developed from it.  ML3556 .J73

Joplin, Scott.  Piano works.  Played by Dick Hyman.  CD.  M22 .J66 P524x 1988

Nicholson, Stuart.  Ella Fitzgerald: a biography of the first lady of jazz.  ML420 F52 N5 1994

Perone, James E.  The sound of Stevie Wonder: his words and music.  ML410 .W836 P47 2006

Porter, Lewis.  Lester Young.  ML419 .Y7 P7 1985

Reisner, Robert George.  Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker.  ML419 .P4 R4 1975

Shipton, Alyn.  Groovin’ high: the life of Dizzy Gillespie.  ML419 .G54 S55 1999

Spencer, Jon Michael.  The New Negroes and their music: the success of the Harlem Renaissance.  ML3556 .G77 1997

Tinger, Paul.  Miles beyond: the electric explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991.  ML419 .D39 T56 2001

Vail, Ken.  Count Basie: swingin’ the blues 1936-1950.  ML419 .B19 V35 2003

Warfield, William, with Alton Miller.  My music and my life.  ML420 .W274 A6x 1991