Works on Blues and Rhythm and Blues
Recent Scholarship (2005)
Alden, Grant, ed. Best of No Depression: Writing about American Music.
University of Texas Press (September).
Albertson, Chris. Bessie.Yale University Press (April, rev. ed.).
Bego, Mark. Tina Turner: Break Every Rule. Taylor Trade Publishing
(September, paperback ed.).
Blackburn, Julia. With Billie. Knopf (April).
Brooks, Tim. Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry,
1890-1919. University of Illinois Press(July, reprint).
Carroll, Jeffrey. When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues.
Parlor Press (January).
Douglas, Tony. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops. Routledge (June).
Evans, David. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues. Penguin
(February).
Friedland, Ed. The R&B Bass Masters: The Way They Play.
Backbeat Books (November).
Goosman, Stuart L. Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm
and Blues. University of Pennsylvania Press (September).
Grazian, David. Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues
Clubs. University of Chicago Press (November).
Hay, Fred J. Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis: Conversations with the Blues.
University of Georgia Press (June).
Hoffman, Frank, and Richard Carlin. Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-Hop.
Facts on File (November).
Jackson, Buzzy. Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing
Them. W.W. Norton and Company (February).
Jarrett, Ted, and Ruth White. You Can Make It if You Try: The Ted Jarrett
Story of Rhythm and Blues in Nashville. Providence House
Publishers (December).
Jones, Lewis Wade, John W. Work, and Samuel C. Adams. Robert Gordon
and Bruce Nemerov, eds. Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk
University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study,1941-1942.
Vanderbilt University Press (July).
Kelley, Norman, ed. R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of
Black Music. Akashic Books (June, rev.).
King, B. B., and Dick Waterman. The B. B. King Treasures: Photos,
Mementos and Music from B. B. King's Collection. Little, Brown and
Company(September).
Komara, Ed. Encyclopedia of the Blues. Routledge (October).
Kostelanetz, Richard. B. B. King Reader: Five Decades of Commentary. Hal
Leonard Corporation (September, paperback ed.).
McGee, David. B. B. King: There Is Always One More Time. Backbeat
Books(September).
Maggin, Donald L. Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie.
HarperCollins (March).
Mandel, Howard. The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues.
Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated (October).
Marquis, Donald M. In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz. Louisiana
State University Press (September, rev. ed.).
Milkowski, Bill. Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius.
Backbeat Books (October).
Oliver, Paul. Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era.
Routledge (October).
Pearson, Barry Lee. Jook Right on: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers.
University of Tennessee Press (November).
Phinney, Kevin. Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White
Culture. Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated (October).
Piazza, Tom. Understanding Jazz: Ways to Listen. Random House
(September).
Porter, Lewis. Lester Young. University of Michigan Press (October).
Romano, Will. Incurable Blues: The Troubles and Triumph of Blues Legend
Hubert Sumlin. C M P Books (April).
Scott, Ronnie, and Mike Hennessey. Some of My Best Friends are Blues.
Northway Publications (May, reprint).
Seymour, Craig. Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross.
HarperCollins(July).
Springer, Robert, ed. Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics
and History. University Press of Mississippi (November).
Segrest, James. Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf.
Avalon Publishing Group (June).
Stanfield, Peter. Body and Soul: Jazz, Blues, and Race in American Film,
1927-63. University of Illinois Press (June).
Weissman, Dick, and Richard Carlin. Blues. Facts on File (November).
