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Songs and Instrumentals
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia
The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Er...
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators,...
American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biograp...
Big Bands Songbook
Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwri...
The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music o...
The Great Song Thesaurus
Hollywood Sings!: An Inside Look at Sixty Ye...
Hollywood Song: The Complete Film and Musica...
Jazz Standards
Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
The Music of Gershwin
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular ...
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
Popular Song: Soundtrack of the Century
The Real Book
The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American ...
Stardust Melodies
Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song
The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second...

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Writer Biographies
Ain't Misbehavin': The Story of Fats Waller
Alec Wilder in Spite of Himself: A Life of t...
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators,...
American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biograp...
Ascap Biographical Dictionary (1981)
ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, ...
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke...
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Earl...
Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of...
Bix: Man and Legend
Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy ...
Can't Help Singin'
Cole Porter: A Biography
Cole: A Biographical Essay
Days to Be Happy, Years to Be Sad: The Life ...
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
Drifting and Dreaming: The Story of Songwrit...
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington in Person: An Intimate Memoir
Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwri...
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
Frank Loesser: A Most Remarkable Fella
Genius and Lust: The Creative and Sexual Liv...
Gershwin: A Biography
Gershwin: His Life and Music
Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Ha...
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Cou...
Great Men of American Popular Song
Harold Arlen: Rhythm, Rainbows, and Blues
Harry Warren and the Hollywood Musical
I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist
Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir
Irving Berlin: A Life in Song
Irving Berlin: American Troubadour
Jerome Kern: His Life and Music
John Coltrane
Jule: The Story of Composer Jule Styne
Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway
The Lullaby of Broadway (Al Dubin)
Lullaby of Broadway: Life and Times of Al Du...
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters...
The Memory of All That: The Life of George G...
Miles: The Autobiography
Mister Jelly Roll
Monk
Music Is My Mistress
Musical Stages: An Autobiography
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular ...
On the Sunny Side of the Street : The Life a...
The Oxford Companion to Popular Music
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of Ame...
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon...
Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ell...
Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz Giant
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer
Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great...
The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American ...
Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of...
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy...
Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of ...
Swing, Swing, Swing: the Life and Times of B...
They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With...
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie
Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz? : Y...
The World of Count Basie
The World of Duke Ellington
You Just Fight For Your Life: The Story of L...

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Performer Biographies
88: The Giants of Jazz Piano
Ain't Misbehavin': The Story of Fats Waller
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke...
The Big Bands
Big Bands Songbook
Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of...
Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of...
Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White
Charlie Parker: His Music and Life (The Mich...
Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gill...
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington in Person: An Intimate Memoir
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Cou...
Goodbyes and Other Messages: A Journal of Ja...
The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking Of Their L...
It's About Time: The Dave Brubeck Story
Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Re...
Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Be...
John Coltrane
Lady Sings the Blues (with a Revised Discogr...
Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis ...
Lullaby Of Birdland: The Autobiography Of Ge...
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Miles: The Autobiography
Mister Jelly Roll
Monk
Music Is My Mistress
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
The Oxford Companion to Popular Music
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ell...
Ride, Red, Ride: The Life of Henry "Red" Allen
Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz
Sidney Bechet: Treat it Gentle (autobiography)
Singing Jazz: The Singers and Their Styles
Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of...
Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper by Ar...
Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of ...
Straight, No Chaser: The Life And Genius Of ...
Swing, Swing, Swing: the Life and Times of B...
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of P...
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie
Waiting for Dizzy
Willie and Dwike
The World of Count Basie
The World of Duke Ellington
You Just Fight For Your Life: The Story of L...

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Lyrics
Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist
Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyrics on Several Occasions
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of Ame...
Reading Lyrics
Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great...

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Historical
150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre
All the Years of American Popular Music
The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Er...
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators,...
American Song: The Complete Musical Theater ...
Barney, Bradley, and Max: Sixteen Portraits ...
The Big Bands
Big Bands Songbook
Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White
Complete Book of the American Musical Theater
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Developmen...
The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 (A Da...
Goodbyes and Other Messages: A Journal of Ja...
The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking Of Their L...
Great Men of American Popular Song
Inside Jazz
Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Re...
Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Be...
Jazz Styles: History and Analysis
Jazz West Coast: The Lost Angeles Jazz Scene...
Joel Whitburn Presents a Century of Pop Music
Joel Whitburn's Pop Hits 1940-1954: Singles ...
Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The ...
Live at the Village Vanguard
Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contr...
A New History of Jazz
Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life in Rhyt...
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of Ame...
Popular Song: Soundtrack of the Century
Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonogr...
The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American ...
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songw...
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930...
This Was Your Hit Parade
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second...
The World of Swing: An Oral History of Big B...
Your Hit Parade & American Top Ten Hits: A W...

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Jazz Studies
Bebop: The Music and Its Players
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Developmen...
Enjoying Jazz
The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 (A Da...
Inside Jazz
Jazz Styles: History and Analysis
Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
Metaphors for the Musician: Perspectives fro...
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
A New History of Jazz
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second...

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Pop Charts
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits
Billboard Top 1000 X 5
Joel Whitburn Presents a Century of Pop Music
Joel Whitburn's Pop Hits 1940-1954: Singles ...
Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954: The ...
This Was Your Hit Parade
Your Hit Parade & American Top Ten Hits: A W...

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Hollywood Films
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia
Can't Help Singin'
Great Hollywood Movies
Hollywood Musicals
Hollywood Sings!: An Inside Look at Sixty Ye...
Hollywood Song: The Complete Film and Musica...
The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters...
The MGM Story

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Broadway Musicals
The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
American Song: The Complete Musical Theater ...
Broadway: An Encyclopedia
Can't Help Singin'
New Complete Book of the American Musical Th...

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