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AMS340: Americans Performing Race  Tags: ams fall08 lhamon culture history  

Fall 2009, W. Lhamon
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Literature

  • Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. 5 v.
    Call Number: ref PS 153 .N5 G73 2005
  • Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. 2 v.
    Call Number: ref PS 153.N5 E49 2007
  • Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature
    Call Number: ref PS 153.N5 E53 2009
  • Handbook of African American Literature
    Call Number: ref PS 153 .N5 E78 2004
  • Oxford Companion to African American Literature
    Call Number: ref PS 153 .N5 O96 1997
 
 

General

Use these exploration encyclopedias for an overview of your topic or person, for definitions and explanations, and for lists of suggested readings. Ask at the reference desk for other suggestions. All are shelved in Reference, Neilson Level 1 North.

 

The Performing Arts

  • Oxford Music Online
    Includes New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; New Grove Dictionary of Opera; New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; Encyclopedia of Popular Music; The Oxford Dictionary of Music; and The Oxford Companion to Music.
  • African American Music Reference
    Biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner note & discographies. Coverage includes blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm & blues, gospel, etc.
  • International Encyclopedia of Dance (Oxford)
    Covers cultural dance plus entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performance, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. 2 vols.
    Call Number: Josten ref PN 2035 .O94 2003
    Covers theater performance from ancient to modern times; also covers dance, radio, film, television, and popular performance.
  • Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
    Call Number: Josten ref ML 102.G6 E63 2005
  • Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop culture
    Call Number: Neilson ref ML 102.R27 B96 2006
  • Encyclopedia of the Blues. 2 vols.
    Call Number: Josten ref ML 102.B6 E53 2006
  • Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960
    Call Number: Josten ref PN 2286 .P46 2001
  • Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography
    Call Number: Josten ref ML 3530 .J373 2007
  • Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song
    Call Number: Josten ref ML 102.P66 J37 2003
 

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Biographical Sources

  • American National Biography. 24 v.
    Call Number: Call Number: ref CT 213 .A68 1999
  • Notable American Women, 1607-1950. 3 v.
    Call Number: ref CT 3260 .N57 1971
  • Notable American Women: The Modern Period.
    Call Number: ref CT 3260 .N573 1980
  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index.
    Call Number: ref CT 214 .B57 & supplements
 

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