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Women in music

Amy Beach, passionate Victorian : the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944

Block, Adrienne Fried. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1998)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 410 .B36 B56 1998

And so I sing : African - American divas of opera & concert

Story, Rosalyn M.. (New York, NY : Warner Books, c1990)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 400 .S88 1990

Aretha : from these roots

Franklin, Aretha.. (New York : Villard, c1999)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .F778 A3 1999

Bernard Shaw's sister and her friends : a new angle on G. B. S.

Farmer, Henry George. (Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1959)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .S534 F4

Bessie

Albertson, Chris. (New York : Stein and Day, 1972)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .S667 A7

Bessie Smith

Oliver, Paul. (New York : Barnes, 1961, c1959)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .S667 O4 1961

Billie's blues : the Billie Holiday story, 1933-1959

Chilton, John. (New York, N.Y. : Da Capo, 1989)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .H58 C5 1989

Black women in American bands & orchestras

Handy, D. Antoinette. (Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1981)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .H36 1981

Blues legacies & Black feminism : Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith & Billie Holiday

(New York : Pantheon Books, c1998)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 3521 .D355 1998

Booker T's child : the life and times of Portia Marshall Washington Pittman

Hill, Roy L.. (2nd ed., Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1993)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 423 .P57 H54 1993

Call her Miss Ross : the unauthorized biography of Diana Ross

Taraborrelli, J. Randy. (New York : Ballantine Books, 1991, c1989)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .R879 T37 1991

Callas: la Divina : art that conceals art

Galatopoulos, Stelios. (Elmsford, N.Y. : London House & Maxwell, 1970)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .C18 G24 1970

Callas legacy

Ardoin, John. (New York : Scribner, c1977)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .C15 A67

Carmen Miranda : bananas is my business

(New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, c1996)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .M53 C37 1996

Clara Novello's reminiscences

Novello, Clara. (London : E. Arnold, 1910)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .N8 G4

Ella Fitzgerald : the complete biography

Nicholson, Stuart. (New York : Routledge, 2004.)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .F52 N52 2004

Famous women singers

Ulrich, Homer. (New York : Dodd, Mead, c1953)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 400 .U45

Frock rock : women performing popular music

Bayton, Mavis. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 3492 .B39 1998

Galina : a Russian story

Vishnevskaya, Galina. (San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1984)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .V3975 .A313 1984

Galli-Curci's life of song

Le Massena, Clarence Edward. (New York : Paebar Company, 1945)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .G17 L4

Get happy : the life of Judy Garland

Clarke, Gerald. (New York : Random House, c2000)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .G253 C58 2000

Girls rock! : fifty years of women making music

Carson, Mina; Lewis, Tisa; Shaw, Susan M.. (Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2004)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .C37 2004

Great women-singers of my time

Klein, Herman. (Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press, 1968)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 400 .K63 1968

His eye is on the sparrow : an autobiography

Waters, Ethel. (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1951)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .W24 A3

His eye is on the sparrow : an autobiography

Waters, Ethel. (New York : Bantam Books, 1959, c1951)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .W24 A3 1959

Hollywood diva : a biography of Jeanette MacDonald

Turk, Edward Baron. (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .M135 T87 1998

How I got over : Clara Ward and the world-famous Ward Singers

Ward-Royster, Willa. (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .W183 A3 1997

Jenny Lind : the Swedish nightingale

Shultz, Gladys Denny. (Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1962)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .L7 S5

Joan Sutherland

Braddon, Russell. (London : St. Martin's Press, 1962)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .S96 B7

Life of Emma Thursby, 1845-1931

Gipson, Richard McCandless. (New York : The New-York Historical Society, 1940)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .T48 G5

Louise Homer and the golden age of opera

Homer, Anne. (New York : W. Morrow, 1974 [c1973])
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .H7 H76

Madame Jazz : contemporary women instrumentalists

Gourse, Leslie. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1995)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .G69 1995

Mahalia Jackson : the power and the glory

(Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Entertainment Group, c1997)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .J17 M34 1997

Maria Callas : sacred monster

Galatopoulos, Stelios. (New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .C18 G263 1998

Maria Callas : the woman behind the legend

Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos. (New York : Simon and Schuster, c1981)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .C18 S7 1981

Marian Anderson

(West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 1998, c1991)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .A6 M37 1998

Marian Anderson : a singer's journey

Keiler, Allan. (New York : Scribner, c2000)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .A6 K45 2000

Marian Anderson : a portrait

Vehanen, Kosti. (New York, London : Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., c1941)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .A6 V4

Mary Carr Moore, American composer

Smith, Catherine Parsons; Richarson, Cynthia S.. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1987)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 410 .M7755 S6 1987

Memoirs of an American prima donna

Kellogg, Clara Louise. (New York : Da Capo Press, 1978, [c1913])
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .K29 A3

Music and gender

(Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .M74 2000

Music and women : the story of women in their relation to music

Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson.
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .D7 1995

My path through life

Lehmann, Lilli. (New York : G.P. Putman's sons, 1914)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .L3 S4

Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers

(New York : W.W. Norton, 1994)
Ref. ML 105 .N67 1994

Old songs of Skye : Frances Tolmie and her circle

Bassin, Ethel. (London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1977)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 423 .T62 B3

Pursuit of perfection : a life of Maggie Teyte

O'Connor, Garry. (New York : Atheneum, 1979)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .T35 O18

Radical harmonies

Mosbacher, Dee (prod.). (San Francisco, CA : Woman Vision, c2002.)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .R33 2002

Raw Pearl

Bailey, Pearl. (New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .B123 A3

Red plush and black velvet : the story of Melba and her times

Wechsberg, Joseph. (Boston : Little, Brown 1961)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .M35 W4

Rediscovering the muses : womens musical traditions

Marshall, Kimberly (ed.). (Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1993)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .R43 1993

Respect : women and popular music

Marcic, Dorothy. (New York : London : Texere, c2002)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .M26 2002

Sarah Vaughan : the divine one

(New York, N.Y. : BMG Video, 1993?, c1991)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .V33 S37 1993

She's a rebel : the history of women in rock & roll

Gaar, Gillian G.. (Seattle, Wash. : Seal Press, c1992)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 394 .G28 1992

Signed, sealed, and delivered : true life stories of women in pop

Steward, Sue; Garratt, Sheryl. (Boston : South End Press, 1984)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .S8 1984

Somebody to love? : a rock-and-roll memoir

Slick, Grace. (New York : Warner Books, c1998)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .S6625 A3 1998

St. Louis woman

Traubel, Helen. (New York : Arno Press, 1977, c1959)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 420 .T77 A3

Stormy weather : the music and lives of a century of jazzwomen

Dahl, Linda. (New York : Limelight editions, 1992)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .D3 1992

Swing shift : all-girl bands of the 1940s

Tucker, Sherrie. (Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .T83 2000

Unsung : a history of women in American music

Ammer, Christine. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1980.)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .A45 1980

Unsung : a history of women in American music

Ammer, Christine. (Century ed., Portland, OR : Amadeus, c2001)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .A45 2000

We gotta get out of this place : the true, tough story of women in Rock

Hirshey, Gerri. (New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001)
Dental School Library
ML 3534 .H58 2000

Women & music : a history

Pendle, Karin (ed.). (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1991)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .W6 1991

Women and music in cross-cultural perspective

Koskoff, Ellen (ed.). (New York : Greenwood Press, 1987)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .W63 1987

Women composers : a handbook

Stern, Susan. (Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1978)
McNichols Campus Library
Ref. ML 105 .S83

Women composers : the lost tradition found

Jezic, Diane Peacock. (2nd ed., New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, c1994)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 390 .J37 1994

Women in music : an anthology of source readings from the middle ages to the present

Neuls-Bates, Carol (ed.). (New York : Harper & Row, 1986, c1982.)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .W65 1986

Women making music : the Western art tradition, 1150-1950

Bowers, Jane; Tick, Judith (eds.). (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1987, c1986)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 82 .W67 1987

Women musicians of Venice : musical foundations, 1525-1855

Baldauf-Berdes, Jane L.. (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 290.8 .V26 B47 1993

Yours for a song : the women of Tin Pan Alley

(New York : distributed by WinStar TV & Video, 1999)
McNichols Campus Library
ML 390 .Y68 1999

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Cataloging and Database Management, Reference Services
McNichols Campus Library

mclonika@udmercy.edu
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