Books for adult readers
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910-1965
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Lehman, David. A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs. Nextbook/Schocken, 2009.
Armitage, Merle, ed. George Gershwin (A Memorial Volume). Da Capo Press, 1995.
Barrett, Mary Ellin. Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Barrios, Richard. A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Bergreen, Laurence. As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin. Penguin, 1990.
Bloom, Ken. The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters and the Songs. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005.
Fordin, Hugh. Getting to Know Him: The Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II. Random House, 1977.
Friedwald, Will. Sinatra! The Song Is You. Scribner, 1995.
Furia, Philip. Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist. Oxford University Press, 1996.
——Irving Berlin: A Life in Song. Schirmer, 1998.
——The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Greenspan, Charlotte. Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Hal Leonard Corporation. The Great American Songbook - The Composers: Music and Lyrics for Over 100 Standards from the Golden Age of American Song (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook), 2007.
Hischak, Thomas S. The Oxford Companion to the Great American Musical: Theatre, Film and Television. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Hyland, William G. George Gershwin: A New Biography. Praeger, 2003.
——The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Jablonski, Edward. Harold Arlen: Happy with the Blues. Doubleday, 1961.
Kimball, Robert and Robert Gottlieb, eds. Reading Lyrics. Pantheon, 2000.
Kimball, Robert and Alfred Simon. Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington: An Oral History of American Music. Yale University Press, 2005.
Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women, and Pianos: A Social History. Simon and Schuster, 1954.
Loesser, Susan. A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2000.
Marx, Samuel and Jan Clayton. Rodgers and Hart: Bewitched, Bothered, and BeDeviled. Putnam, 1976.
Melnick, Jeffrey. A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Meyerson, Harold and Ernie Harburg. Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist. University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Morath, Max. The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Popular Standards. Penguin Putnam, Berkley Publishing, A Perigee Book, 2002.
Most, Andrea. Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. Harvard University Press, 2004.
Nolan, Frederick. Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Pollack, Howard. George Gershwin: His Life and Work. University of California Press, 2006.
Riis, Thomas L. Frank Loesser. Yale University Press, 2008.
Rimler, Walter. George Gershwin: An Intimitate Memoir. University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages. 1975, reprint by Da Capo Press, 2002.
Rosen, Jody. White Christmas: The Story of an American Song. Scribner, 2002.
Secrest, Meryle. Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers. Applause, 2001.
Sheed, Wilfrid. The House That George Built. Random House, 2007.
Suskin, Steven. Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway’s Major Composers. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Wilk, Max. They’re Playing Our Song: Conversations with America’s Classic Songwriters. Da Capo Press, 1997; Easton Studio Press, 2008.
Winer, Deborah. On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields. Schirmer Books, 1997.
