Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Jazz and Blues


Antelyes, Peter. "Red Hot Mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the Ethnic Maternal Voice in American Popular Song." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 212-229. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bowers, Jane. "'I Can Stand More Trouble Than Any Little Woman My Size': Observations on the Meanings of the Blues of Estelle 'Mama' Yancey." American Music 11 (Spring 1993), 28-53.

Brown, Elsa Barkley. "Polyrhythms and Improvisation: Lessons for Women's History." History Workshop 31 (1991), 85-90.

Carby, Hazel. "'It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime': The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues." In Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, ed. Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki Ruiz, 238-249. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Chinitz, David. 'Dance, Little Lady': Poets, Flappers, and the Gendering of Jazz. New York, NY: Garland, 1997.

Cook, Susan Carol. "Listening to Billie Holiday: Intersections of Race and Gender." The Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin 18/3 (1992), 94-96.

Dahl, Linda. "Equal Time: A Historical Overview of Women in Jazz." In America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society, 205-212. Westport: Greenwood, 1992.

Dahl, Linda. Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Folio, Cynthia. "An Analysis of Polyrhythm in Selected Improvised Jazz Solos." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 103-134. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 1995.

Gushee, Lawrence. "The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz." Black Music Research Journal 14/1 (1994), 1-24.

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. London: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Leder, Jan. Women in Jazz: A Discography of Instrumental Music1913-1968. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Lieberfeld, Daniel." Million-dollar juke joint: Commodifying blues culture." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 217-221.

Monson, I. "The Problem with White Hipness: Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions in Jazz Historical Discourse." Journal of the American Musicological Society 48 (1995), 396ff.

Placksin, Sally. American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present: Their Words, Lives, and Music. New York: Seaview Books, 1982.

Tomlinson, Gary. "Cultural Dialogics and Jazz: A White Historian Signifies." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Tucker, Sherrie. "Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 13-23.

Unterbrink, Mary. Jazz Women at the Keyboard. Jefferson: McFarland, 1983.

Yurchenco, Henrietta. "'Blues fallin' down like hail': Recorded blues, 1920s-1940s." American music13/4 (1995), 448-469.

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