Resource Guide:
Jazz History
Selected Call Numbers
Call numbers are the shelving locations for each item. Browsing in the following areas of the library will help you find materials for your topic.
Topic | Call Number |
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Music | M |
Popular music | ML3469-3541 |
Folk, national, and ethnic music | ML3544-3776 |
Biography | ML385-429 |
History and criticism | ML159-3785 |
By period | ML162-197 |
By region or country | ML198-360.6 |
Selected Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971–Performances
- Basie, Count, 1904-1984–Chronology
- Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931
- Big Band Music
- Brubeck, Dave–Interviews
- Cool Jazz
- Davis, Miles. Kind of blue
- Dixieland Music
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Fountain, Pete–Performances
- Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986–Discography
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959–Political and Social Views
- Jazz–Analysis, appreciation
- Jazz–Bio-bibliography
- Jazz–Dictionaries
- Jazz–History and Criticism
- Jazz–Instruction and Study
- Jazz in Literature
- Jazz–Louisiana–New Orleans–Pictorial works
- Jazz–Missouri–Kansas City–History and criticism
- Jazz Musicians–Biography
- Jazz–Tennessee–Memphis–1921-1930
- Jazz Vocals
- Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917–Bibliography
- Morton, Jelly Roll, d. 1941
- Music
- Music – Periodicals
- Music History and Criticism
- Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955–Poetry
- Oliver, King, 1885-1938
- Ory, Kid, 1886-1973
- Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953
- Swing (Music)
- Miller, Glenn, 1904-1944
Selected Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
Title | Call Number |
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The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians | REF ML 100 .N48 2001 |
Harvard Dictionary of Music | REMOTE ML 100 .A64 |
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | REMOTE ML 100 .S367 |
The Ellington century | ML 3506 .S287 2012< |
Pioneers of jazz the story of the Creole Band | eBook |
Cultural codes : makings of a Black music philosophy | ML 3479 .B364 2010 |
Gypsy jazz in search of Django Reinhardt and the soul of gypsy swing | eBook |
Growing up with jazz twenty-four musicians talk about their lives and careers | eBook |
Highway 61 revisited the tangled roots of American jazz, blues, & country music | eBook |
Jazz makers vanguards of sound | eBook |
Groovin’ high the life of Dizzy Gillespie | eBook |
Visions of jazz the first century | eBook |
It’s about time: the Dave Brubeck story | ML 410 .B868 H35 1996 |
Madame Jazz: Contemporary women instrumentalists | eBook |
Jazz: The Rough guide | ML 102 .J3 C325 1995 |
Talking jazz: an Oral history | ML 394 .S537 1995 |
Swing changes : big-band jazz in New Deal America | ML 3518 .S8 1994 |
All that jazz! | ML 3506 .W54 1994 |
Ella Fitzgerald : a biography of the first lady of jazz | ML 420 .F52 N5 1994 |
Jazz : the American theme song | ML 3508 .C62 1993 |
Chicago jazz : a cultural history, 1904-1930 | ML 3508.8 .C5 K46 1993 |
The jazz exiles : American musicians abroad | ML 3506 .M66 1993 |
Swing, swing, swing : the life & times of Benny Goodman | ML 422 .G65 1992 |
The jazz scene : an informal history from New Orleans to 1990 | ML 3506 .S87 1991 |
Mister Jelly Roll; the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and inventor of jazz | ML 410 .M82 L6 |
America’s musical life: a history | ML 200 .C856 2000 |
Selected Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Selected Journals and Magazines
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. YOu can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning
- American Music
- American Music Research Center Journal
- Musical Traditions: The Magazine for Traditional Music Throughout The World
- Journal of Jazz Studies
- Current Research in Jazz
- Jazz Research Journal
Selected Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Felix Grant Collection
- Frank Driggs Jazz Oral History Collection
- Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
- Preservation Hall
- PBS companion to Jazz, a film by Ken Burns
- Jazz in America
- Blues Photograph Collection
- Jazz — Listen and Watch
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem
- University of Colorado at Boulder Ragtime Sheet Music Collection
- Charles Templeton Sheet Music Collection