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Crawford, Richard. Introduction to American Music. Norton, 2000. From the sacred music of its earliest days to the jazz and rock of the millennium. Darby, William. American Film Music: Major Composers, Techniques, Trends, 1915-1990. McFarland, 1990. The major figures behind motion-picture scores. Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. Hyperion, 1995. Introduction to one of the earliest types of American music. Emery, Ralph. 50 Years Down a Country Road. Morrow , 2000. A colorful and entertaining history of Nashville. Escott, Colin. Tattooed on Their Tongues: A Journey Through the Backrooms of American Music. Simon & Schuster, 1998. An entertaining look at 50 years of rockabilly and country music. Hischak, Thomas S. Film It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Movie Musical. Greenwood, 2001. An encyclopedic reference to America's movie musical phenomenon. Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley Sadie, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Macmillan, 1986. Standard reference on all aspects of American music; includes classical and popular. Hyland, William G. The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. Oxford University Press, 1995. Tin Pan Alley, the Jazz Age, and Hollywood. Kingman, Daniel. American Music: A Panorama. Schirmer, 1998. A concise introduction to the many genres that make up American music. McCloud, Barry. Definitive Country: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Country Music and Its Performers. Perigee, 1995. Biographies, recordings, music awards, addresses, festivals, radio stations, and movies. Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans. Norton, 1997. African American music from its African origins to the mid-20th century; extensive bibliography. Balliett, Whitney. American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz. Oxford University Press, 1996. Essays by a distinguished jazz critic. Bogdanov, Vladimir, and others, eds. All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz. 4th ed. Backbeat Books, 2002. Advice on 17,000 jazz recordings. Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 5th ed. Penguin, 2001. A respected buying guide for jazz listeners. Feather, Leonard, and Ira Gitler, eds. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1999. Updated edition of a standard reference source. Friedwald, Will. Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond. Collier, Da Capo, 1992. 1996. The effect of Jazz on popular singers from the early blues singers to Sinatra. Gioia, Ted. History of Jazz. Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998. Solid history, with portraits of jazz greats. Gridley, Mark. Jazz Styles: History and Analysis. Prentice Hall, 2002. Introduction to various styles and performers. Hasse, John Edward, ed. Jazz: The First Century. Morrow, 2000. Richly illustrated survey from the Smithsonian's curator of American music. Hentoff, Nat. Listen to the Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music. HarperCollins, Da Capo, 1995. 2000. Essays on musicians, commentary on new recordings, interviews. Kernfeld, Barry. What to Listen for in Jazz. Yale University Press, 1997. Discusses the elements of jazz and illustrates them on an accompanying CD. Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development. Oxford University Press, 1968, 1986. From African forms to the early 1930s. Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945. Oxford University Press, 1989. The second (of a proposed three) volume in this expert's history. Shipton, Alyn. A New History of Jazz. Continuum, 2001, 2002. The evolution of jazz by a BBC broadcaster and critic with an international slant.
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