African American History Resources

@ Pequot Library

Arranged by category (alphabetically), from most recently published to earliest published.

Biography arranged by subject’s last name.

Music [arranged from most recent to earliest]:

Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans.  Brothers, Thomas, 2006.     781.5 BROTHERS

Big Boss Man:  the Life and Music of Jimmy Reed.  Romano, Will, 2006.     781.643 ROMANO

The Sounds of Slavery:  Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech.   White, Shane, 2005.     973.0496 WHITE

Jazz Modernism:  from Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce.   Appel, Alfred, 2002.  

781.65 APPEL

Can’t Be Satisfied:  the Life and Times of Muddy Waters.  Gordon, Robert, 2002.

782.4216 GORDON

Motown:  Music, Money, Sex and Power.  Posner, Gerald, 2002.     781.644 POSNER

Living with Music:  Ralph Ellison’s Jazz Writings.  Ellison, Ralph, 2001.    781.65 ELLISON

Collected Works:  a Journal of Jazz, 1954-2000.   Balliet, Whitney, 2000.    781.65 BALLIET

Strange Fruit:  Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights.   Margolick, David, 2000.        782.42 MARGOLICK

Miles and Me.  Troupe, Quincy, 2000.     788.92 TROUPE

George Clinton and P-Four: an Oral History [For the Record].  Mills, George et al, 1998.  781.644 MILLS

Sam and Dave:  an Oral History [For the Record].  Moore, Sam and Dave Marsh, 1998.  781.644 MOORE

Black Sabbath:  an Oral History [For the Record].  Stark, Mike, 1998.     781.66 STARK

Women of Motown:  an Oral History [For the Record].  Whitall, Susan, 1998.    781.66 WHITALL

The History of Jazz.  Gioia, Ted, 1997.    781.45 GIOIA

Reading Jazz:  a Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now.  1996.781.65 READING

Jazz:  a Photographic Documentary.  Williams, Richard, 1994.     Q 779.2 WILLIAMS

Josephine:  the Hungry Heart.   Baker, Jean-Claude, 1993.   B BAKER

Jazz Lives:  100 Portraits in Jazz.   Lees, Gene, 1993.     Q 781.65 LEES

Jazz Anecdotes.  Crow, Bill, 1990.     781.65 CROW

Jazz Cleopatra:  Josephine Baker in Her Time.   Rose, Phyllis, 1989.     B BAKER

Louis Armstrong, an American Genius.  Collier, James Lincoln, 1983.    785.42 COLLIE

A Virgil Thomson Reader.   Thomson, Virgil, 1981.     780  THOMSON

Of Minnie the Moocher & Me.   Calloway, Cab, 1976.   780.92 CALLOWAY

Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy and Other Heroes.    Gleason, Ralph J., 1975.     784 GLEASON

Fats Waller [Kings of Jazz].  Fox, Charles, 1961.     781.5 FOX

Charlie Parker[Kings of Jazz].  Harrison, Max, 1961.    781.5 HARRISON

Miles Davis [Kings of Jazz].  James, Michael, 1961.     781.5 JAMES

Johnny Dodds [Kings of Jazz].  Lambert, G.E., 1961.     781.5 LAMBERT

Bessie Smith [Kings of Jazz].  Oliver, Paul, 1961.     781.5 OLIVER

Jazz:  New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World’s Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars.   Hentoff, Nat, 1959.     781.5 HENTOFF

Bix Biederbecke [Kings of Jazz].  James, Burnett, 1959.     781.5 JAMES

Dizzy Gillespie [Kings of Jazz].  James, Michael, 1959.     781.5 JA

Louis Armstrong [Kings of Jazz].  McCarthy, Albert, 1959.     781.5 MCCARTHY

Folk Blues:  110 American Folk Blues.   Silverman, Jerry, 1958.     784.756 SI OV

The Story of Jazz.  Stearns, Marshall Winslow, 1956.     781.5 STEARNS

Satchmo:  my Life in New Orleans.   Armstrong, Louis, 1954.   781.5 ARMSTRONG