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A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
AMERICAN POETRY, PAINTING, AND SONG
THE FOLLOWING BIBLIOGRAPHY IS ONLY A VERY PRELIMINARY INTRODUCTION TO
READERS WISHING TO EXPLORE IN GREATER DETAIL THE VAST REALM OF AMERICAN
CULTURAL STUDIES.
GENERAL WORKS:
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AMERICAN MUSIC AND SONG |
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| Ammer, Christine |
UNSUNG: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN MUSIC |
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980 |
| Austin, William W. |
SUSANNA, JEANIE, AND THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME: THE
SONGS OF STEPHEN C. FOSTER FROM HIS TIME TO OURS. |
2nd edition. Urbana & Chicago: U. of Illinois Press,1989 |
| Carman, Judith E., Gaeddert, Wlliam K. & Resch, Rita M. |
ART-SONG IN THE UNITED STATES, 1801-1987: AN ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
National Association of Teachers of Singing, 1987 |
| Resch, Rita, & Ewen, David |
AMERICAN COMPOSERS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY |
New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1982. 2nd edition.
NATS;1987 |
| Hamm, Charles |
MUSIC IN THE NEW WORLD |
New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,1983 |
| Hitchcock, H. Wiley |
MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES: A Historical Introduction. |
3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1968 |
| Horn, David |
THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN MUSIC |
Meteuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977 |
| Ritter, Frédéric Louis |
MUSIC IN AMERICA |
New York: Johnson Reprint Co., 1970 (Orig. 1883) |
| Stevens, Denis |
A HISTORY OF SONG |
New York: W.W. Norton, 1960 |
| Struble, John W. |
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC. NEW YORK |
Facts on File, 1995 |
| Upton, William Treat |
ART-SONG IN AMERICA |
Boston: Oliver Ditson Co.; 1938. Reprinted by Johnson Reprint
Co., 1969 |
| Villamil, Victoria |
A SINGER'S GUIDE TO THE AMERICAN ART SONG 1870-1980
(Foreword byThomas Hampson) |
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press,1991 |
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ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE & POETRY |
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| Drabble, Margaret (ed.) |
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE |
5th edition. New York: Oxford U. Press, 1985 |
| Hart, James D. |
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE |
6th edition. New York: Oxford U. Press, 1995 |
| Matthiessen, F. O. |
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: ART & EXPRESSION IN THE AGE OF
EMERSON & WHITMAN |
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1941 |
| Reynolds, David S. |
WALT WHITMAN'S AMERICA: A CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY |
New York: Knopf, 1995 |
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AMERICAN ART |
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| Baigell, Matthew |
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING |
New York & Washington: Praeger, 1971 |
| Cohen, George M. |
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART |
New York: Dell, 1971 |
| Flexner, James T. |
NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN PAINTING |
New York: Putnam & Sons, 1970 |
| Jeffrey, Ian |
PHOTOGRAPHY: A CONCISE HISTORY |
New York & Toronto: Oxford U. Press, 1981 |
WORKS OF SPECIFIC INTEREST:
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COMPOSER PROFILES |
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| Cadman, Charles W. |
CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN: AN AMERICAN COMPOSER IN THE
MUSICIAN |
November 1915 |
| Anderson, Donna K. |
CHARLES T. GRIFFES: A LIFE IN MUSIC |
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1993 |
| Berger, Arthur |
AARON COPLAND |
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1953 |
| Block, Adreinne Fried |
INTRODUCTION TO PIANO QUINTET |
New York: Da Capo,1979 |
| Burton, Humphrey |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN 1918-1990 |
New York: Doubleday, 1995 |
| Emerson, Ken |
DOO-DAH! STEPHEN FOSTER & THE RISE OF AMERICAN POPULAR
CULTURE |
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997 |
| Lawrence, Vera |
WA-WAN PRESS Reprinted edition. |
New York: Arno Press.& the New York Times 1970 |
| Feder, Stuart |
CHARLES IVES: MY FATHER'S SONG |
New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1992 |
| Friedberg, Ruth C. |
THE SONGS OF JOHN DUKE IN NATS BULLETIN 36 |
September/October 1979 |
| Gilman, Lawrence |
EDWARD MACDOWELL: A STUDY |
New York: Da Capo, 1908 |
| Gradenwitz, Peter |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: THE INFINITE VARIETY OF A MUSICIAN |
Hamburg & New York: Berg Publishers Ltd.,1987 |
| Hager, Minna |
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER |
in MUSIC JOURNAL 28, March 1970 |
| Heyman, Barbara |
SAMUEL BARBER, THE COMPOSER AND HIS MUSIC |
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1992 |
| Homer, Sidney |
MY WIFE AND I |
New York: Macmillan, 1939 |
| Howard, John Tasker |
STEPHEN FOSTER: AMERICA'S TROUBADOUR |
New York: Crowell, 1934 |
| Ives, Charles |
MEMOS |
London: Calder & Boyars, 1973 |
| Kearns, William K. |
HORATIO PARKER, 1863-1919: HIS LIFE, MUSIC AND IDEAS |
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991 |
| Moore, Thomas |
IRISH MELODIES |
New York: A.L. Burt, n.d. (numerous other editions exist) |
| Root, Deane |
L.MYTH AND STEPHEN FOSTER |
in CARNEGIE MAGAZINE 67/7. Vol. 10, 1987 |
| Rorem, Ned |
THE NEW YORK DIARY |
New York: George Braziller, 1967 |
| Scheffer, Jonathan |
PAUL BOWLES: MUSIC |
New York: EOS Music, 1995 |
| Simpson, Anne Key |
HARD TRIALS; THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF HARRY T. BURLEIGH |
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990 |
| Simpson, Anne Key |
THE PARIS DIARY |
New York: George Braziller, 1966 |
| Thomson, Virgil |
VIRGIL THOMSON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
New York: Knopf, 1966; Reprint Da Capo, 1977 |
| Yellin, Victor |
CHADWICK: YANKEE COMPOSER |
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1990 |
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POET & WRITER PROFILES |
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| Gustave Matthieu & Stern, Guy (ed.) |
INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN POETRY |
New York: Dover,1987 |
| Agee, James |
COLLECTED POEMS |
New Haven, Yale U. Press, 1968 |
| Alcott, Bronson |
CONCORD DAYS |
Boston: Roberts Bros, 1872 |
| Alcott, Bronson |
ESSAYS ON EDUCATION |
Gainsesville, Fla: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1960. |
| Berry, Faith |
LANGSTON HUGHES: BEFORE AND BEYOND HARLEM |
New York: Wings Books, 1992 |
| Blanchard, Paula |
MARGARET FULLER: FROM TRANSCENDENTALISM TO REVOLUTION |
Redding, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co./Radcliffe Series,
1978 |
| Browning Elizabeth B. |
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE |
Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1954 |
| Browning,Robert |
SELECTED POETRY |
New York: Random House, 1951 |
| Buckler, William E.(ed.) |
PROSE OF THE VICTORIAN PERIOD |
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1958 |
| Carlyle, Thomas |
SARTOR RESARTUS |
Indianapolis: Odyssey Press, 1976 |
| Johnson, Thomas (ed.) |
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: A SCHOLARLY EDITION.
3 VOLUMES. |
Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1955 |
| Atkinson, Brooks (ed.) |
SELECTED WRITINGS OF EMERSON |
New York: Random House, 1950 |
| Folsom, Ed (ed.) |
WALT WHITMAN: THE CENTENNIAL ESSAYS |
Iowa City: U. of Iowa Press,1994 |
| Howe, Julia Ward (ed.) |
LOVE LETTERS OF MARGARET FULLER |
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903 |
| Fuller, Margaret |
WOMEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY |
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845. Reprint: W.W. Norton,
n/d |
| Hedrick, Joan |
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: A LIFE |
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1994 |
| Hughes, Langston |
SELECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES |
New York, Vintage,1990 |
| Johnson, Robert U. |
POEMS OF FIFTY YEARS |
1951 |
| Kaplan, Justin |
MR. CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN |
New York: Simon & Schuster |
| Kaplan, Justin |
WALT WHITMAN: A LIFE |
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980 |
| Leverich, Lyle |
TOM: THE UNKNOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS |
New York: Crown, 1995 |
| Lindsay, Vachel |
COLLECTED POEMS |
New York: Macmillan, 1925 |
| Moreau, Geneviève |
THE RESTLESS JOURNEY OF JAMES AGEE |
New York: William Morrow, 1977 |
| Richardson,Jr.,Robt.D. |
EMERSON: THE MIND ON FIRE |
Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1995 |
| Robinson, Edwin A. |
COLLECTED POEMS |
New York: Macmillan, 1935 |
| Roethke, Theodore |
COLLECTED POEMS |
New York: Doubleday |
| Saxton, Martha |
LOUISA MAY |
New York: Avon, 1977 |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN |
New York: Bantam, 1981 |
| Tagore, Rabindrinath |
COLLECTED POEMS & PLAYS |
New York: Collier, 1993 |
| Thomson, Edward |
RABINDRINATH TAGORE: POET & DRAMATIST |
Delhi: Oxford U. Press, 1989 |
| Shephard, Odell (ed.) |
THE HEART OF THOREAU'S JOURNALS |
New York: Dover, 1961 |
| Thoreau, Henry David |
THE PORTABLE THOREAU |
New York: Viking, 1947 |
| Twain, Mark |
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN |
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963 |
| Twain, Mark |
THE PORTABLE MARK TWAIN |
New York: Viking, 1977 |
| Whitman, Walt |
POETRY & PROSE |
New York: Library of America, 1982 |
| Williams, Tennessee |
THE GLASS MENAGERIE |
New York: New Directions, 1949 |
| Sewall, Richard |
THE LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON |
New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1974 |
| Salt, Henry S. |
LIFE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
Reprint Services,1992 |
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IDEAS PROFILES |
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| Abrams, M.H. ed. |
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS: MODERN ESSAYS IN CRITICISM |
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1975 |
| Agee, James & Evans, Walker |
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN |
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1941 |
| Ballinger, James K. |
FREDERIC REMINGTON |
New York: Abrams, 1989 |
| Barzun, Jacques |
CLASSIC, ROMANTIC, AND MODERN |
Revised edition. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1975 |
| Begbie, Harold |
THE LIFE OF GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH |
New York: Macmillan Press, 1920 |
| Brooks, Paul |
THE OLD MANSE AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE |
Concord, MA: Trustee of Reservations, 1993 |
| Curtis, Edward |
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. 20 VOLUMES. |
New York, 1896-1930 |
| Doran, James B. |
MATTHEW BRADY: HISTORIAN WITH A CAMERA |
New York: Crown, n/d |
| Du Bois, W.E. B |
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK |
New York, Penguin, 1989 |
| Enscoe, Gerald E. |
ROMANTICISM: POINTS OF VIEW |
Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1975 |
| Frankenstein, Alfred |
PAINTER OF RURAL AMERICA: WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT |
New York: International Editions Foundation, 1968 |
| Gilchrist, Herbert |
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ANNA GILCHRIST |
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887 |
| Gleckner, Robert F. & Guptill, Arthur |
NORMAN ROCKWELL ILLUSTRATOR. |
7th edition. New York: Watson-Guptil, 1972 |
| Hansen, Ellen (ed.) |
THE NEW ENGLAND TRANSCENDENTALISTS |
Lowell, MA, 1993 |
| Hendricks, Gordon |
ALBERT BIERSTADT: PAINTER OF THE AMERICAN WEST |
New York: Abrams, 1975 |
| Howat, John K. |
THE HUDSON RIVER & ITS PAINTERS |
New York: Viking, 1972 |
| Johnson, Paul |
THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN |
New York: Harper Collins, 1991 |
| Jordan, Frank (ed.) |
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH &
CRITICISM |
New York: Modern Language Association, 1972 |
| Lewis, David L. |
THE PORTABLE HARLEM RENAISSANCE READER |
New York, Viking, 1994 |
| Mosby, Dewey F. &Alexander-Minter, Ray |
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER |
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991 |
| Nathan, Hans |
DAN EMMET AND THE RISE OF EARLY NEGRO MINSTRELS |
Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1962 |
| Peyre, Henri |
WHAT IS ROMANTICISM? |
Roberts, Roda, trans. University, Ala.: U. of Alabama Press,
1977 |
| Reynolds, David S. |
BENEATH THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE |
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 1988 |
| Richman, Michael |
DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH: AN AMERICAN SCULPTOR |
New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1976 |
| Stein, Deborah & Spillman, Robert |
POETRY INTO SONG |
New York: Oxford U. Press, 1996 |
| Troutt, Margaret |
THE GENERAL WAS A LADY |
Nashville: A.J. Holman & Co., 1980 |
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