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CATNYP: Sc F 97-507
LEO: no record
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CATNYP: *MGZA 92-544
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CATNYP: JFD 91-9275
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CATNYP: MW 93-1486
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CATNYP: JFD 94-1546
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LEO: 792 F
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CATNYP: MWET 94-8632
Fletcher, Tom. 100 Years of the Negro in Show Business,
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LEO: 782.8108 F
Foster, Stephen Collins. Minstrel-Show Songs. New York:
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CATNYP: JNN 76-3v.14
LEO: Mu 784 F
Fraden, Rena. Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935-1939.
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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
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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,
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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,
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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,
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CATNYP: MWES
LEO: 792.11 G
Guild, Leo. Josephine Baker. Lose Angeles, CA: Holloway
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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
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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.
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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,
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CATNYP: Sc E 82-179
LEO: J 792.11 H
Haskins, James. Black Dance in America: A History Through Its
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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
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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
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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
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CATNYP: JFD 04-6454
LEO: 818 Johnson
Johnson, James Weldon. The Book of American Negro Spirituals.
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CATNYP: Sc F 95-32
LEO: Mu 784.7 B
Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. New York: A. A.
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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
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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
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CATNYP: JFD 82-2584
Laurie,Joseph. Vaudeville: From the Honky-Tonks to the Palace.
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792-L; MWFH
LEO: 792.8 L
Leonard, William T. Masquerade in Black. Metuchen, NJ:
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CATNYP: MWET 87-1405
Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in America: A Documentary History.
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LEO: 301.54196 L
Lerner, Gerda. The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in
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CATNYP: JLD 86-3348
Levinson, Andre. "The Negro Dance Under European Eyes." Theatre
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CATNYP: NBLA
LEO: PER
Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York:
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CATNYP: Sc E 83-160
LEO: 700.8996 L
Lewis-Furguson, Julinda, ed. Black Choreographers Moving: Papers,
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CATNYP: *MGS (U.S) 92-489
LEO: 927.93 O
Long, Richard A. Black Dance: The Black Tradition in American
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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.
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CATNYP: MWES
LEO: B P M
Mason, Herman. African-American Entertainment in Atlanta.
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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.
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CATNYP: MWET 85-1605
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Nathan, Hans. Dan Emment and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy.
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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
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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.
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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
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