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Bronson, Bertrand H., “On the Union of Words and Music in the ‘Child’ Ballads.” Western Folklore 11, No. 4 (Oct., 1952) : 233-249.
Abbott, Lynn, Doug Seroff. "’They Cert'ly Sound Good to Me’: Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, and the Commercial Ascendancy of the Blues.” American Music 14, no. 4 (Winter 1996) : 402-454.
Klotter, James C. “The Black South and White Appalachia.” The Journal of American History 66, no. 4 (Mar. 1980) : 832-849.
Rich, Arthur L. “American Folk Music.” Music & Letters 19, no. 4 (October 1938) : 450-452.
Wilgus, D. K. “Country-Western Music and the Urban Hillbilly.” The Journal of American Folklore 83, no. 328 (Apr.-Jun. 1970) : 157-179.
Yurchenco, Henrietta. “Trouble in the Mines: A History in Song and Story by Women of Appalachia.” American Music 9, no. 2 (Summer 1991) : 209-224.
Cantwell, Robert. “Ten Thousand Acres of Bluegrass: Mimesis in Bill Monroe's Music.” Journal of Popular Culture 13, no. 2 (1979): 209-220.
Carney, George O., “Western North Carolina: Culture Hearth of Bluegrass Music.” Journal of Cultural Geography 16, no. 1 (1996): 65-87.
Goddu, Teresa, “Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: the Gothic and Country Music.” South Atlantic Quarterly 94, no. 1, (1995): 57-80.
Hale, Tony, “Grassroots Bluegrass in Memphis: the Lucy Opry.” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 49, no. 2 (1983): 51-64.
Marshall, Howard W., “’Keep on the Sunny Side of Life’: Patterns and Religious Expression in Bluegrass Gospel Music.” New York Folklore Quarterly 30, no. 1 (1974): 3-43.
Rosenberg, Neil V.. “Bluegrass, Rock and Roll, and ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky.’” Southern Quarterly 22, no. 3 (1984) : 66-78.
Smith, L. M.. “An Introduction to Bluegrass.” Journal of American Folklore 78, no. 309 (1965): 245-256.
Tunnell, Kenneth D., “Blood Marks the Spot Where Poor Ellen was Found: Violent Crime in Bluegrass Music.” Popular Music and Society 15, no. 3 (1991): 95-115.
Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies And Black Feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, And Billie Holiday. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998
Goosman, Stuart L. Group Harmony : The Black Urban Roots Of Rhythm & Blues. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
Jackson, George P. White And Negro Spirituals, Their Life Span And Kinship, Tracing 200 Years Of Untrammeled Song Making And Singing Among Our Country Folk, With 116 Songs As Sung By Both Races. New York: J. J. Augustin, 1944
Korson, George G.. Coal Dust On The Fiddle; Songs And Stories Of The Bituminous Industry. Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, 1965
Lange, Jeffrey J. Smile when you call me a hillbilly : Country music's struggle for respectability, 1939-1954. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004
Leach, MacEdward, and Tristram P. Coffin. The Critics & The Ballad. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961
Lovell, John. Black Song : The Forge And The Flame : The Story Of How The Afro-American Spiritual Was Hammered Out. New York: Paragon House, 1986
Malone, Jacqui. Steppin' On The Blues : The Visible Rhythms Of African American Dance. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996
Nettl, Bruno. An Introduction To Folk Music In The United States. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1962
Nicholls, David. The Cambridge History Of American Music. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Oliver, Paul. Blues Fell This Morning : Meaning In The Blues. Cambridge England ; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1994
Sackheim, Eric, and Jonathan Shahn. The Blues Line : Blues Lyrics From Leadbelly To Muddy Waters. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2004
Santelli, Robert, Holly George-Warren, and Jim Brown. American Roots Music. New York, N.Y.: H.N. Abrams, 2001
Schroeder, Patricia R. Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, And Contemporary American Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004
Stambler, Irwin, and Grelun Landon. Encyclopedia Of Folk, Country, & Western Music. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1983
van Rijn, Guido. The Truman And Eisenhower Blues : African-American Blues And Gospel Songs, 1945-1960. London ; New York: Continuum, 2004
Conway, Cecelia. African Banjo Echoes In Appalachia : A Study Of Folk Traditions. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995
Henry, Mellinger E., Folksongs from the southern highlands. New York city: J. J. Augustin, 1938
Jackson, George P., White Spirituals In The Southern Uplands; The Story Of The Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, And "Buckwheat Notes.". New York: Dover Publications, 1965
Lief, Arthur. He's Gone Away; Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians. New: York Music Press, 1947
Niles, John J.. Ballads, Carols. New York: G. Schirmer, inc., 1937
Niles, John J. More Songs Of The Hill-Folk; Ten Ballads And Tragic Legends From Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, And Georgia. New York: G. Schirmer, inc., 1936
Niles, John J. Songs Of The Hill-Folk; Twelve Ballads From Kentucky, Virginia, And North Carolina. New York: G. Schirmer, inc., 1934
Scarborough, Dorothy, John H. H. Lyon, and Vernon Loggins. A Song Catcher In Southern Mountains; American Folk Songs Of British Ancestry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1937
Sharp, Cecil J., Olive A. Campbell, and Maud Karpeles . English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1952
Sharp, Cecil J., Maud Karpeles, and Benjamin Britten. Eighty english folk songs from the southern appalachians. London: Faber and Faber, 1968
Thomas, Jeannette, Joseph A. Leeder. The Singin' Gatherin'; Tunes From The Southern Appalachians. New York, Boston etc.: Silver Burdett company, 1939
Ancelet, Barry J. Cajun Music : Its Origins And Development. Lafayette, Louisiana: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1989
Lomax, Alan. The Land Where Blues Began. New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co, Inc., 2002
Lomax, John A., and Lomax, Alan [collected and compiled by]. American Ballads And Folk Songs. New York: Macmillan, 1934
Shaw, Arnold. Black Popular Music In America: From The Spirituals, Minstrels And Ragtime To Soul, Disco, And Hip-Hop. New York: Schirmer Books, 1986
Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright. Images : Iconography Of Music In African-American Culture (1770s-1920s). New York: Garland Publishers, 2000
Wolfe, Charles K. Kentucky Country : Folk And Country Music Of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1982
Barlow, William, and Cheryl Finley. From Swing To Soul: An Illustrated History Of African American Popular Music From 1930 To 1960. Washington, D.C.: Elliott & Clark Publishers, 1994
Brooks, Tim. Lost Sounds : Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry, 1890-1919. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2004
Haskins, James. Black Music In America: A History Through Its People. New York, NY: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000
McNeil, W.K. [compiled by]. Southern Mountain Folksongs: Traditional Songs From The Appalachians And The Ozarks. Little Rock, Arkansas: August House Publishers, 1993
Morgan, Thomas L., and William Barlow. From Cakewalks To Concert Halls: An Illustrated History Of African American Popular Music From 1895 To 1930. Washington, D.C.: Elliott & Clark Publishers, 1992
Schafer, William J., and Johannes Riedel. The Art Of Ragtime: Form And Meaning Of An Original Black American Art. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 1973
Sharp, Cecil J.. English Folksongs From The Southern Appalachians / Collected By Cecil Sharp. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1960
Stewart, Earl L. African American Music : An Introduction. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998
Bluestein, Gene. Poplore : Folk And Pop In American Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994
Cohen, Norm. Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music : An Annotated Discography Of Published Sound Recordings. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994
Dinerstein, Joel. Swinging The Machine : Modernity, Technology, And African American Culture Between The World Wars. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
Dugaw, Dianne. The Anglo-American Ballad : A Folklore Casebook. New York: Garland, 1995
Escott, Colin, George Merritt, and William MacEwen. Hank Williams : The Biography. New York: Little, Brown, 2004
Filene, Benjamin. Romancing The Folk : Public Memory & American Roots Music. Chapel Hill N.C. ; London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Forcucci, Samuel L. A Folk Song History Of America : America Through Its Songs. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984
Goldsmith, Peter D. Making People's Music : Moe Asch And Folkways Records. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998
Lomax, Alan, and Ronald D. Cohen. Alan Lomax : Selected Writings, 1934-1997. New York: Routledge, 2003
Longhi, Jim. Woody, Cisco, & Me : Seamen Three In The Merchant Marine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997
Lornell, Kip. Introducing American Folk Music : Ethnic And Grassroot Traditions In The United States. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002
Meade, Guthrie T., Richard K. Spottswood, and Douglas S. Meade. Country Music Sources : A Biblio-Discography Of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries in Association with the John Edwards Memorial Forum, 2002
Miller, Terry E. Folk Music In America : A Reference Guide. New York: Garland Publishers, 1986
Nettl, Bruno, Ruth M. Stone, James Porter, and Timothy Rice. The Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music. New York: Garland Publishers, 1998
Oliver, Paul. Songsters And Saints : Vocal Traditions On Race Records. Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984
Reed, Teresa L. The Holy Profane : Religion In Black Popular Music. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003
Spencer, Jon M. Re-searching black music. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996
Stambler, Irwin, Grelun Landon, Alice Seidman, Lyndon Stambler, and Irwin Stambler. Country Music : The Encyclopedia. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997
Stambler, Irwin, Lyndon Stambler, and Irwin Stambler. Folk And Blues : The Encyclopedia. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001
Starr, Larry, and Christopher A. Waterman. American Popular Music : From Minstrelsy To MTV. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
Titon, Jeff T., and Bob Carlin. American Musical Traditions. New York: Schirmer Reference, 2002
Artis, Bob. Bluegrass : From The Lonesome Wail Of A Mountain Love Song To The Hammering Drive Of The Scruggs-Style Banjo, The Story Of An American Musical Tradition. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1975
Barry, Phillips. Folk Music In America. New York: Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project, National Service Bureau, 1939
Bronson, Bertrand H. The Ballad As Song. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969
Cantwell, Robert. Bluegrass Breakdown : The Making Of The Old Southern Sound. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984
Coffin, Tristram P. The British Traditional Ballad In North America. Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1963
Cohen, Norm. Long Steel Rail : The Railroad In American Folksong. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000
Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music U.S.A. New York: Dover, 1992
Green, Archie. Only A Miner; Studies In Recorded Coal-Mining Songs. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972
Jackson, George P. White And Negro Spirituals, Their Life Span And Kinship : Tracing 200 Years Of Untrammeled Song Making And Singing Among Our Country Folk : With 116 Songs As Sung By Both Races. New York: Da Capo Press, 1975
Leach, MacEdward. The Critics & The Ballad. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961
Lornell, Kip. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide To American Folk Music. New York: Berkley Pub. Group, 2004
Malone, Bill C. Southern Music, American Music. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979
Nettl, Bruno. Folk Music In The United States : An Introduction. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1976
Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass : A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985
Rosenberg, Neil V. From Sound To Style: The Emergence Of Bluegrass. Los Angeles: John Edwards Memorial Foundation, 1967
Scott, John A. The Ballad Of America : The History Of The United States In Song And Story. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983
Southern, Eileen. The Music Of Black Americans : A History. New York: Norton, 1983
White, Newman I. American Negro Folk-Songs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928
Wilgus, D. K. Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982