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Albertson, Chris. Bessie. New York: Stein & Day, 1972
CATNYP: JNE 74-9
LEO: B Smith A

Allen, Robert Clyde. Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
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LEO: 792.8 A

Allen, Zita. "Great American 'Black Dance' Mystery." Freedomways 20.4 (1980): 283-290. CATNYP: Sc Ser.-L .F844  v.20 (1980)

Badger, Reid. James Reese Europe: Life in Ragtime. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. CATNYP: JNE 95-44; Sc E 95-171
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CATNYP: *XMD-345    

Benson, Susan P., Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig, eds. Presenting The Past: Essays on History and the Public. Philadelphia: temple University Press, 1986.
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LEO: 973.092 P

Best, James J. American Popular Illustration: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwillow Press, 1984.
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LEO: 741.6409 B

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CATNYP: *MGS (U.S.) 88-738

Blesh, Rudi and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime. New York: Alfred A Kropf, 1950.
CATNYP: MFM-Amer. (Blesh, R. They all played ragtime. New York, 1950)
LEO: Oak Publication, 1971 781.572 B

Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks. New York, Viking Press, 1973.
CATNYP: MFL 74-33
LEO: 792.9 B

Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Musical Comedy: From Adonis to Dreamgirls. New York, Oxford University Press, 1986.
CATNYP: JND 85-4
LEO: 782 B

Boskin, Joseph. Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
CATNYP: Sc D 87.82
LEO: 306.484 B

Bradford, Perry. Born with the Blues. New York: Oak Publications, 1965.
CATNYP: Sc B-Bradford; *MEC (Bradford) (Bradford, P. Born with the blues)
LEO: B B B

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CATNYP: Sc F 95-210; JFF 96-963
LEO: 305.4889 W

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CATNYP: Sc D 81-62
LEO: 812.54 B

Brown, Janet. Taking Center Stage: Feminism in Contemporary U.S. Drama. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991.
CATNYP: JFD 92-10226
LEO: 812.54 B

Brown, Scott E. James P. Johnson. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1986.
CATNYP: JND 86-62
LEO: B Johnson B

Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
CATNYP: JEE 89-1498
LEO: 812.52 B

Butcher, Margaret Just. The Negro in American Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
CATNYP: Sc 917.3-B (Butcher, M. Negro in American culture. 1964)
LEO: Ref 700.973 B

Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993.
CATNYP: JFE 94-3
LEO: 305.3 B

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge, 1990.
CATNYP: JFE 90-958
LEO: 305.3 B

Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
CATNYP: Sc D 88-168
LEO: 813.4 C

Case, Sue-Ellen. Performing Feminism: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
CATNYP: JFF 90-1903
LEO: 792 P

Cayton, Mary K. Elliot J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds. Encyclopedia of American Social History. New York: Schribner, 1993
CATNYP: *R-IDS 99-1399 v. 1 – 3
LEO: 301.0973 E

Charters, Ann. Nobody: The Story of Bert Williams. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
CATNYP: MGYB (Williams) 91-1953
LEO: B Williams C

Clark, VeVe A. "The Archaeology of Black Theatre." The Black Scholar 10.10 91979): 43-56.
CATNYP: Sc Ser-M .B 528 v. 10

Clark, VeVe A., Ruth-Ellen B Joeres, and Madelon Sprengneth, eds. Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JFE 94-348
LEO: 809.892 R

Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara.  Ned Wayburn and the Dance Routine.  Weslyan University Press, 1993.
CATNYP: *MGWA 93-1196
LEO:    B Wayburn C

Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara.  Popular Music: 1900- 1919.  Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1988.
CATNYP: JNE 88-48; *L 88-6962
LEO: 016.784 C

Cooper, Anna Julia. A Voice From the South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
CATNYP: Sc C 88-263
LEO: 975.0049 C

Craig, Evelyn Quita. Black Drama of the Federal Theatre Era: Beyond The Formal Horizons. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
CATNYP: Sc E 80-249
LEO: 812.009 C

Dance Black America, April 21-24, 1983. Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1983.
CATNYP: Sc F 97-507
LEO: no record

Dance Research Journal: Popular Dance in Black America 15.2 (Spring 1983).
CATNYP: *MGZA 92-544
LEO: no record

Daughtry, Willa. Sissieretta Jones: A Study of the Negro's Contribution to the Nineteenth-Century American Concert and Theatrical Life. Diss. Syracuse University. 1968. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968. 68-13,823.
CATNYP: *ZB-1114

David, Tom. "Conversations with James P. Johnson," Jazz Review (June-July, 1959).
CATNYP: Sc 780.9-J (Jazz Review)

Davis, Lindsay Elizabeth. Lifting as They Climb. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Colored J. W. Women, n.d.
CATNYP: Sc D 99-1840

Davis, Tracy C. Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture. New York: Routledge, 1991.
CATNYP: JFD 91-9275

Donkin, Ellen, and Susan Clement, eds. Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as if Gender and Race Matter. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Research Press, 1993.
CATNYP: MWED 93-10350

Dyer, Richard. Only Entertainment. New York: Routledge, 1992.
CATNYP: MW 93-1486

Dyson, Michael Eric. Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JFD 94-1546

Ely, Melvin Patrick. The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. New York: Free Press, 1991.
CATNYP: Sc E 91-130; MWGI 92-293
LEO: 791.4472 E

Emery, Lynne Fauley. Black Dance: From 1619 to Today. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Book Company, 1988.
CATNYP: Sc D 90-78
LEO: 793.23 E

Engle, Gary D. This Grotesque Essence: Plays from the American Minstrel Stage. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
CATNYP: Sc E 78-296
LEO: 812.057 T

Erenberg, Lewis A. Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
CATNYP: MGS (US) 96-120009
LEO:  974.7104 E

Ferguson, Blanche. "Black Skin, Black Mask: The Inconvenient Grace of Bert Williams." American Visions 7.3 (June/July 1992): 14.
CATNYP: Sc Ser.-M .A54575 v. 7 – 8

Ferris, Lesley. Acting Women: Images of Women in the Theatre. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
CATNYP: MWET 90-12569
LEO: 792 F

Ferris, Lesley, ed. Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross Dressing. New York: Routledge, 1993.
CATNYP: MWET 94-8632

Fletcher, Tom. 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business, New York: Burdge, 1954. 
CATNYP: Sc 792-F
LEO: 782.8108 F

Foster, Stephen Collins. Minstrel-Show Songs. New York: Da Capo Press, 1984.
CATNYP: JNN 76-3v.14
LEO: Mu 784 F

Fraden, Rena. Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935-1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
CATNYP: Sc E 94-512
LEO: 792.11 F

Frank, Rusty E. Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900-1955. New York, Da Capo Press, 1994.
CATNYP: MGX 96-209; Sc D 98-686
LEO: 927.93 F

Gans, Herbert J. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste. New York: Basic Books, 1975.
CATNYP: JFD 76-8592
LEO: 301.21 G

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press 1988.
CATNYP: JFE 02-10278
LEO: 810.99 G

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology. New York: Meridian, 1990.
CATNYP: JFE 91-29
LEO: 810.93 R

Gavin, James. Intimate Nights: the Golden Age of New York Cabaret. New York: Grove Weindenfeld, 1991.
CATNYP: JNE 91-91
LEO: 792.8 G

George-Graves, Nadine. The royalty of Negro vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the negotiation of race, gender and class in African-American theatre, 1900-1940. NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
CATNYP: *MGYB (Whitman) 00-3682
Sc D 00-2128

Gilbert, Douglas. American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.
CATNYP: MWFH (Gilbert, D. American vaudeville)
LEO: 792.8 G

Glenn, Susan A. Female spectacle.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
CATNYP: MWET 01-8659

Godrich, John, and Robert M. W. Dixon. Blues and Gospel Records, 1902-1942. Chigwell, England: Storyville, 1969.
CATNYP: *L 89-8047 

Goings, Kenneth W. Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
CATNYP: Sc F 94-430

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
CATNYP: *MGS (U.S.) 96-12010
LEO: 791.0899 G

Green, Abel. Show Biz, From Vaude to Video. New York: Holt, 1951.
CATNYP: Sc 792-G;             MWED (Green, A. Show biz) c.2; *T-Desk
LEO: 790.2097 G

Grimsted, David. Melodrama Unveiled, American Theatre and Culture, 1800-1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
CATNYP: MWES
LEO: 792.11 G

Guild, Leo. Josephine Baker. Lose Angeles, CA: Holloway House, 1976.
CATNYP: MWES
LEO: J-B168j

Hamalian, Leo, and Hatch James V. The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
CATNYP: Sc E 91-69
LEO: 812.008 R

Handy, W. C. Father of the Blues. New York: Macmillan, 1941.   
CATNYP: *MEC (Handy) (Handy, W. C. Father of the blues); Sc B-Handy (Handy, W.)
LEO: J B H H

Haney, Lynn. Naked at the Feast: A Biography of Josephine Baker. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
CATNYP: MWES (Baker, J) 81-1076; Se C 81-251
LEO: B Baker H

Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1979.
CATNYP: JNF 80-9
LEO: 927.847 H

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JNE 88-21
LEO: 784.7 H

Haskins, James. The Cotton Club. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1977.
CATNYP: Sc F 78-46
LEO: 792.8 H

Haskins, James. Black Theater in America. New York: Crowell, 1982.
CATNYP: Sc E 82-179
LEO: J 792.11 H

Haskins, James. Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1990.
CATNYP: MGS (U.S.) 92-1229
LEO: J 793.23 H

Hatch, James V., and Leo Hamalian, eds. Black Image on the American Stage, A Bibliography of Plays and Musicals, 1770-1970. New York:  DBS Publications, 1970.
CATNYP: Sc 016. 812-H
LEO: 016.812 H

Hatch, James V., and Leo Hamalian, eds. Black Theater U.S.A.: Forty-Five Plays by Black Americans 1847-1974. New York: The Free Press, 1974.
CATNYP: Sc 812.08
LEO: 812.00 H

Hatch, James V., and Leo Hamalian, eds. The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays.1858-1938. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
CATNYP: Sc E 91-69
LEO: 812.008 R

Hay, Samuel A. African American Theatre: A Historical and Critical Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
CATNYP: Sc D 99-2781
LEO: 792.11 H

Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina. Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
CATNYP: MGS (U.S.) 91-427
LEO: 793.23 H

Hill, Errol, ed. The Theatre of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1987.
CATNYP: MWED 87-3656;   Sc D 88-90
LEO: Ref 792.11 H

Hoffmann, Frank W. American Popular Culture: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
CATNYP: RS-IDS 03587

Hooks, Bell. Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press, 1989.
CATNYP: JFD 90-11220

            Sc D 89-687

Hughes, Langston. "Black Influences in the American Theater." In The Black American Reference Book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976.
CATNYP: Sc 973-B
LEO: 301.45196 B

Hughes, Langston, and Milton Meltzer. Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African American in the Performing Arts. New York: Da Capo Press, 1990.
CATNYP: Sc F 91-45
LEO: 791.0899 H

Inge, Thomas M. Handbook of American Popular Culture. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
CATNYP: JFE 96-15357
LEO: 306.4097 H

Jablonski, Edward. The Encyclopedia of American Music. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1981.
CATNYP: JNE 81-35
LEO: 780.973 J

Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley. New York: Donald I Fine, 1988.
CATNYP: JMF 03-487
LEO: 784 J

Jasen, David A., and Trebor Tichenor. Rags and Ragtime. New York: Seabury Press, 1978.
CATNYP: JNE 78-36
LEO: 781.572 J

Jewel, K. Sue. From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond: Cultural Images and the Shaping of U.S. Policy. New York: Routledge, 1993.
CATNYP: JFD 93-9084

Johns, Robert L. "The Whitman Sisters." In Notable Black Women, Book II, ed. Jessie Carney Smith. New York: Gale Research, 1996.
CATNYP: Sc F 96-59; *R-AB 98-2971

Johnson, Helen Armstead. "Blacks in Vaudeville: Broadway and Beyond." In American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment, ed. Myron Matlaw. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
CATNYP: MWED 80-1877; Sc E 87-321
LEO: 790.2097 C

Johnson, James Weldon. Along This Way. New York: Viking Press, 1933.
CATNYP: JFD 04-6454
LEO: 818 Johnson

Johnson, James Weldon. The Book of American Negro Spirituals. New York: Viking Press, 1925.
CATNYP: Sc F 95-32
LEO: Mu 784.7 B

Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930.
CATNYP: Sc 974.7-J (Johnson, J. Black Manhattan)
LEO: 974.71 J

Johnson, Stephen Burge.  The Roof Gardens of Broadway Theaters: 1883 – 1942.  Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1985.
CATNYP: MWED 86-535

Johnson, Theodore Wallace. Black Images in American Popular Song, 1840-1910. Diss., Northwestern University, 1975. 
CATNYP: Sc Micro R-3459

Keyssay, Helene. The Curtain and the Veil: Strategies in Black Drama. New York: B. Franklin, 1981.
CATNYP: Sc E 82-281
LEO: 812.009 K

Kimball, Robert, and William Bolcom. Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake. New York: Viking Press, 1972.
CATNYP: JNF 73-123
LEO: B Sissle K

Laforse, Martin W. Popular Culture and American Life: Selected Topics in the Study of American Popular Culture. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981.
CATNYP: ILH 82-203

Landrum, Larry N. American Popular Culture: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1982.
CATNYP: JFD 82-2584

Laurie,Joseph. Vaudeville: From the Honky-Tonks to the Palace. New York: Holt, 1953.
CATNYP: Sc 792-L;             MWFH
LEO: 792.8 L

Leonard, William T. Masquerade in Black. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986.
CATNYP: MWET 87-1405

Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in America: A Documentary History. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.
CATNYP: JFD 93-11399
LEO: 301.54196 L

Lerner, Gerda. The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
CATNYP: JLD 86-3348

Levinson, Andre. "The Negro Dance Under European Eyes." Theatre Arts (April 1927): 292-293.
CATNYP: NBLA
LEO: PER

Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
CATNYP: Sc E 83-160
LEO: 700.8996 L

Lewis-Furguson, Julinda, ed. Black Choreographers Moving: Papers, Panels, and Interviews from the 1989 National Dance Festival. Berkeley, CA: Expansion Art Service, 1991.
CATNYP: *MGS (U.S) 92-489
LEO: 927.93 O

Long, Richard A. Black Dance: The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
CATNYP: *MGS (U.S) 90-1644

Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JNE 93-79
LEO: 792.81 L

Malnig, Julie. Dancing till Dawn.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
CATNYP: *MGW 92-933
LEO: 793.26M

Malone, Jacqui. Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
CATNYP: MGS (U.S) 97-7779
LEO: 793.23 M

Malpede, Karen, ed. Women in Theatre: Compassion and Hope. New York: Drama Book, 1983.
CATNYP: MWET 83-1699
LEO: 792 W

Marks, Edward B. They All Sang. New York: Viking Press, 1934.
CATNYP: Sc 784-M; MFHB
LEO: 784 M

Marsh, J. B. T. The Story of the Jubilee Singers, with Their Songs. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
CATNYP: Sc 784.7
LEO: 927.8 M

Marson, William Moulton. F. F. Proctor, Vaudeville Pioneer. New York: R. R. Smith, 1943.
CATNYP: MWES
LEO: B P M

Mason, Herman. African-American Entertainment in Atlanta. Atlanta: Arcadia Tempus Publishing Group, 1998.
CATNYP: JME 00-729

Mason, Jeffrey D. Melodrama and the Myth of America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
CATNYP: MWED 94-2413

Matlaw, Myron, ed. American Popular Entertainment: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
CATNYP: Sc E 87-321
LEO: 790.2097 C

McConachie, Bruce A. Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
CATNYP: MWED 92-11098

McConachie, Bruce A. and Thomas Postlewait, eds. Interpreting the Theatrical Past: Essays in the Historiography of Performance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991.
CATNYP: MWEC 89-21348
LEO: 792 I

McLean, Albert F. American Vaudeville as Ritual. Lextington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965.
CATNYP: MWFH
LEO: 792.8 M

McNamara, Brooks, ed. American Popular Entertainments: Jokes, Monologues, Bits, and Sketches. New York City: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1983.
CATNYP: JFE 83-4315

Meeker, David. Jazz in the Movies. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1977.
CATNYP: JND 78-3
LEO: 016.7854M

Melosh, Barbara. Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
CATNYP: 3-MAMT 92-2824

Meyer, Moe, ed. The Politics and Poetics of Camp. New York: Routledge, 1994.
CATNYP: JFD 94-6903

Minsky, Morton. Minsky's Burlesque. New York: Arbor House, 1986.
CATNYP: MWFH 86-2477
LEO: 792.8 M

Minstrel-Show Songs. New York: Da Capo Press, 1980.
CATNYP: JNN 76-3V. 14
LEO: Mu 784 F

Mitchell, Loften. Voices of the Black Theatre. Clifton, NJ: J. T. White, 1975.
CATNYP: Sc 792. 0973-M
LEO: 792.11 M

Mollete, Carlton, and Barbara Mollete. Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 1986.
CATNYP: Sc D 87-717
LEO: 792 M

Morgan, Thomas L., and William Barlow. From Cakewalks to Concert Halls. Washington, D.C.: Elliot & Clark, 1992.
CATNYP: JNF 93-167
LEO: 784.7M

Morrison, Toni. "The Site of Memory." Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, ed. Russell Ferguson and Martha Gever. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
CATNYP: 3-MA 91-3196; Sc E 01-990
LEO: 700.103 O

Motz, Marilyn E. ed. Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994.
CATNYP: JFE 94-11576

Moss, Alfred A. The American Negro Academy: Voice of the Talented Tenth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
CATNYP: Sc E 81-161
LEO: 975.3004 M

Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson, eds. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
CATNYP: JFE 91-7745

Muse, Clarence, and David Arlen. Way Down South. Hollywood, CA: David Graham Fischer, 1932.
CATNYP: Sc Rare F 81-11

Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. New York: Basic Books, 1993.
CATNYP: MW 94-8746
LEO: 790.0135 N

Natalie, Elizabeth J. Feminist Theatre: A Study in Persuasion. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985
CATNYP: MWET 85-1605
LEO: 812.009 N

Nathan, Hans. Dan Emment and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.
CATNYP: Sc 791.1-N
LEO: 792.81 N

Nelson, Stephen C.  Only a Paper Moon: The Theater of Billy Rose.  Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1987.
CATNYP: 3-MAMZ 88-2024; MWES 87-3564

Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. Afro-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
CATNYP: Sc E 89-218
LEO: 305.4889 N

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. "Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English." In Revising the Word and the World, ed. VeVe Clark, et. al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JFE 94-348
LEO: 809.892 R

Olaniyan, Tejumola. The Poetics and Politics of "Othering": Contemporary African, African American, and Caribbean Drama and the Invention of Cultural Identities. Diss., Cornell University, 1991. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. 9203968.
CATNYP: Sc D 97-1163

Osumare, Halifu. "An Aesthetic of the Cool Revisited: The Ancestral Dance Link in the African Diaspora." UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology 17 (1993): 1-16.
CATNYP: MGZA 89-1061

Parker, Gail. The Oven Birds: American Woman on Womanhood, 1820-1920. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1972.
CATNYP: JLC 73-145

Pascal, Julia. "The Ghetto of Ethic Dance. " Ballet International 14.3-4 (March/April 1991).
CATNYP: MGZA 83-696

Paskman, Dailey. "Gentlemen Be Seated!": A Parade of the American Minstrels. New York: C. N. Potter,1976.
CATNYP: JNF 78-108; MWFW 83-338
LEO: 791.12 P

Perpener, John O. The Seminal Years of Black Concert Dance. Diss., New York University, 1992. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1992. 9222911.
CATNYP: XMD-622

Peterson, Bernard L., Jr. The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960.: A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatre, and Performing Groups. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
CATNYP: MWEC 97-9412
LEO: 792.11 P

Peterson, Bernard L., Jr. A Century of Musical in Black and White. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JNE 95093 c.3
LEO: 782 P

Poggi, Jack. Theater in America: The Impact of Economic Forces 1870-1967. Ithaca,NY: Cornell University Press,1968.
CATNYP: MWED (Poggi,J. Theater in America)
LEO: 792.11 P

Pryse, Marjorie, and Hortense J.Spillers, eds. Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction and Literary Tradition. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1985.
CATNYP: Sc E 86-92
LEO: 810.992 C

Reed, Bill. "Hot From Harlem": Profiles in Classic African-American Entertainment. Los Angeles: Cellar Door Books, 1998.
CATNYP: Sc D 00-173
LEO: 927.9109 R

Richards, Sandra L. "Bert Williams: The Man and The Mask." Mime, Mask & Mariottee 1.1 (Spring 1987): 6-25.
CATNYP: MWA 86-2521

Richards, Sandra L. "Writing the Absent Potential: Drama, Performance, and the Canon of African-American Literature." In Performativity and Performance, ed. Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. New York: Routledge, 1995.
CATNYP: JFE 69-4031

Riis, Thomas L. Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theatre in New York, 1890 to 1915. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
CATNYP: JNE 91-13
LEO: 782 R

Rose, Al. Eubie Blake. New York: Schirmer Books, 1979.
CATNYP: JND 80-6
LEO: B Blake R

Rose, Phyllis. Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
CATNYP: MGYB 89-28934
LEO: B Baker R

Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1994.
CATNYP: JNE 96-92 c.2
LEO: 784 R

Rowland, Mabel. Bert Williams, Son of Laughter. New York City: The Englsih Crafters, 1923.
CATNYP: MWES RBS 97-692 c.2

Rust, Brian. The American Dance Band Discography, 1917-1942. 2 vol. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975.
CATNYP: L 76-437
LEO: 016.7899R

Rust, Brian. Jazz Records, 1897-1942. 2 vol. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978.
CATNYP: *R-Phono 84-254
LEO: 789.9R

Rust, Brian, with Allen G. Debus. The Complete Entertainment Discography. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973.
CATNYP: L 89-1243

Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Blackface. Metuchen. N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980. 
CATNYP: R-Theatre 81-621

Sampson, Henry T. The Ghost Walks: A Chronological History of Blacks in Show Business, 1865-1910. Metuchen. N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988.
CATNYP: MWED 88-2348

Samuels, Charles. Once Upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1974.
CATNYP: MWFH 75-508
LEO: 792.8 S

Sanders, Leslie Catherine. The Development of Black Theater in America: From Shadows to Selves. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
CATNYP: Sc E 88-130
LEO: 812.009 S

Shange, Ntozake. "Unrecovered Losses/Black Theatre Traditions," The Black Scholar 10.10 (1979): 7-9.
CATNYP: Sc Ser.-M .B 528 v. 10

Shapiro, Nat, and Nat Hentoff. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz by the Men Who Made It. New York: Rinehart, 1955.
CATNYP: JND 93-72
LEO: 785.42 S

Singer, Barry. Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf. New York: Schirmer Books, 1992.
CATNYP: JNE 93-25

Slide, Anthony, ed. The Vaudevillians: A Dictionary of Vaudeville Performers. Westport, CT: Arlington House, 1981.
CATNYP: MWER 82-1505
LEO: 792.7028 S

Slide, Anthony, ed. Selected Vaudeville Criticism. Metuchen, NY: Scarecrow Press, 1988.
CATNYP: MWFH 88-2908
LEO: 729.8 S

Slide, Anthony, ed. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
CATNYP: MWFH 94-5626
LEO: 792.8 S

Smith, Bill. The Vaudevillians. New York: Macmillian, 1976.
CATNYP: MGY76-2324
LEO: 792.8 S

Smith, Eric Ledell. Bert Williams. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992.
CATNYP: MWES (Williams, B.) 92-19690
LEO: B Williams S

Snyder, Robert W. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York. New York Oxford University Press, 1989.
CATNYP: JMD 00-816
LEO: 792.8 S

Sobel, Bernard. Burleycue, An Underground History of Burlesque Days. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931.
CATNYP: MGR 90-4222

Sobel, Bernard. A Pictorial History of Burlesque. New York: Putman, 1956.
CATNYP: MWFH [RBS] 99-7
LEO: 792.8 S

Sobel, Bernard. A Pictorial History of Vaudeville. New York: Citadel Press, 1961.
CATNYP: MWFH
LEO: 792.8 S

Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of African-American and African Musicians. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
CATNYP: JNF 90-193
LEO: 927.8.S

Southern, Eileen. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music. London: Greenwood Press, 1982.
CATNYP: JNF 90-193
LEO: 016.7847 S

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.
CATNYP: JNE 85-5
LEO: 780.973S

Stearns, Marshall, and Jean Stearns. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.
CATNYP: MGV 94-1378
LEO: 793.23 S

Steins, Charles W. American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries. New York: Knopf, 1984.
CATNYP: MWFH 84-3493
LEO: 792.8 A

Storey, John. An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
CATNYP: JFD 93-11328

Thorpe, Edward. Black Dance. Woodstock, NY: the Overlooked Press, 1990.
CATNYP: MGS (US) 06-3
LEO: 793.23 T

Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
CATNYP: JNE 75-1

Toll, Robert C. On With the Show: The First Century of Show Business in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
CATNYP: MWED 77-2228
LEO: 792.2 O

Toll, Robert C. "Show Biz in Blackface: The Evolution of the Minstrel Show as a Theatrical Form." American Popular Entertainment. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
CATNYP: MWED 80-1877

Traylor, Eleanor. "Two Afro-American Contributions to Dramatic Form." In The Theatre of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Errol Hill. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1978.
CATNYP: MWED 87-3656
LEO: 792.11 T

Turner, Darwin T., ed. Black Drama in America. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press. 1994.
CATNYP: Sc D 95-1572
LEO: 812.008 B

Turner, Patricia A. Ceramic Uncle & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influences on Culture. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
CATNYP: Sc E 94-605
LEO: 302.2308 T

Van Deburg, William L. Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
CATNYP: Sc E 85-172
LEO: 305.896 V

Wallace, Michele. Invisibility Blues: From Pop To Theory. New York: Verso, 1990.
CATNYP: Sc E 91-37
LEO: 305.4889 W

Wallace, Michele. Black Popular Culture. Ed. Gina Dent. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1992.
CATNYP: SC D 94-534
LEO: 305.896 B

Waller, Maurice, and Anthony Calabrese. Fats Waller. New York: Schirmer Books, 1977.
CATNYP: JNE 78-18
LEO: J-W198

Welter, Barbara. Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976.
CATNYP: JLE 77-1232

Wertheim, Arthur F. ed. American Popular Culture: A Historical Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Information Services, 1984.
CATNYP: I 84-292

Whitburn, Joel. Pop Memories, 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research, 1986.
CATNYP: L 88-78
LEO: 016.7899W 

Wilkerson, Margaret B. "Redefining Black Theatre." The Black Scholar 10.10 (1979): 32-42.
CATNYP: Sc Ser.-M .B528 vol. 10

Wilmeth, Don B. American and English Popular Entertainment: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980.
CATNYP: MWB 80-464
LEO: 016.79 W

Witmark, Isidore, and Isaac Goldberg. From Ragtime to Swingtime. New York: Lee Furman, 1939.
CATNYP: MFPB (U.S) (Witmark, I.)
LEO: 784 W

Wittke, Carl Frederick. Tambo and Bones; A History of the American Minstrel Stage.

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CATNYP: Sc 791.1-W
LEO: 792.81 W

Wohl, Allen. Black Musical Theatre. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
CATNYP: JNE 89-24
LEO: 782 W

Woll, Allen. Black Musical Theatre: From Coontown to Dreamgirls. New York: Da Capo Press, 1989.
CATNYP: JNE 89-24
LEO: 782 W

Wright, Laurie. Fats in Fact. Chigwell, England: Storyville, 1992.
CATNYP: JND 93-37

Zeidman, Irving. The American Burlesque Show. New York: Hawthron Books, 1967.
CATNYP: MWED [RSB] 97-20
LEO: 792.8 Z