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    • ______, American History through Music: Music of the 1990s, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.,  2011;
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  • Hillstrom, Kevin  and Collier, Laurie, The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1998;
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  • Korson, George,  Minstrels of the Mine Patch, Songs and Stories of the Anthracite Industry, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1938;
  • Lankford, Ronald D.  Jr.,  Folk Music USA: The Changing Folk Voice of Protest, Schirmer Trade Books, New York, 2005;
  • Larson, Erik,  Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Crown Publishers, NY, 2015;
  • Lawson, A.,  Jim Crow’s Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, 2010;
  • Laska, Vera  ed., Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses, Greenwood Press, Westport & London, 1983;
  • Lieberman, Robbie, “My Song is My Weapon”, People’s Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-50, Univ. of Illinois Press,  Chicago and Urbana, 1995;
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  • Lomax, Alan,  Guthrie, Woody  and Seeger, Pete,  Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB, 1967;
  • Lomax,  John and Lomax, Alan, American Ballads and Folk Songs, Macmillan, NYC, 1934;
    • ______, Best Loved American Folksongs (Folksong USA), Grosset and Dunlap, NYC, 1947;
    • ______, Our Singing Country : A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads, Macmillan, NYC, 1941;
  • Lynch, Timothy P.,  Strike Songs of the Depression, Univ. of Miss. Press, Oxford, MS,  2001;
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  • Mangione, Jerre , The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project, 1935-1943, Avon Pub., New York,  1972;
  •  McAuliffe, Mary S., When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends, Roman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, (2016);
  • Meacham, Jon,   The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Random House, New York, (2018)
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  • Murdoch, Brian, Fighting Songs and Warring Words, Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars, Routledge Press, London, 1990;
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  • Olmstead, Tony,  Folkway Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound, Routledge Press, NYC, 2003;
  • Parker, Bernard S.,  World War I Sheet Music, Vol. I and II: 9,670 Patriotic Songs Published in the United States, 1914-1920 with more than 600 Covers Illustrated, McFarland & Co., Inc., Jefferson, N. C., 2007;
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  • Pieslak, Jonathan,  Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington, IN, 2009;
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  • Reed, V.,  The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle, Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2005;
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  • Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner,  Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds, Harper Collins Publishers, NYC, 2016;
  • Savage, Ann M.,  They’re Playing Our Song: Women Talk about Feminist Rock Music, Praeger, Westport, CN, 2003;
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  • Seeger, Pete and  Reiser, Bob, Carry It On: A History in Song and Picture of the Working Men and Women of America, Simon & Schuster, Inc., NYC, 1985;
    • _______,  Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures , WW Norton & Company, NYC, 1989;
  • Smith, Kathleen E.R.,  God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, Univ. of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 2003;
  • Spivey, Christine A. , Folk Music, Communism and the Red Scare as a Part of the America Landscape, Loyola Univ. Press, New Orleans, La.,  1996;
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (The sources listed below provide general background information for the narrative contained in this section relating to The Fifties. It is a supplement to the bibliography set out in the main Songbook. Sources cited in the text relate to more specific information referenced in those particular paragraphs.)

  • A Cycle of Outrage: America’s Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s, James Gilbert (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)
  • A Howl of Free Expression: The 1957 Howl Obscenity Trial and Sexual Liberation, Jamie L. Rehlaender, Portland State University, March 19, 2015
  • All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed” (doctoral thesis), Glenn C. Altschuler
  • American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Empire, John A. Jackson, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
  • America in the Fifties, Andrew J. Dunar (2006)
  • America in the 1950s (Decades of American History), Charles Wills (2005)
  • “American Culture in the 1950s”, Martin Halliwell, Edinburgh University Press (2005)
  • American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-60, William O’Neill (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986)
  • As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s, Karal Ann Marling (Harvard University Press, 1996)
  • Chuck Berry Invented the Idea of Rock and Roll, Bill Wyman, https://www.vulture.com/2016/12/chuck-berry-invented-the-idea-of-rock-and-roll.html
  • Commercialism, Counterculture, and the Folk Music Revival: A Study of Sing Out! Magazine, 1950–1967, Mikiko Tachi, The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 15 (2004)
  • Conflict and Conformity, Culture and Technology Ruled in Rock’s Early Days, Richard Aquila
  • Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth T. Jackson (1985)
  • Crossing Over: From Black Rhythm Blues to White Rock ‘n’ Roll, Reebee Garofola, Rhythm & Business: The Political Economy of Black Music (2002)
  • Domestic Blitz: A Revisionist History of the Fifties, Gaile McGrego, https://journals.ku.edu/amsj/article/view/2849/2808
  • Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics, Boddy, Univ. of Ill. Press
  • From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America, Lizabeth Cohen, American Historical Review (1996)
  • God’s Country: America in the Fifties. Ronald Oakley (1986)
  • Harmonies, Heroes and Heroin, ‘Streetlight Harmonies’ Charts the Rise, Fall and Legacy of the Popular 1950’s Musical Genre, David Browne
  • How the Fifties became the Sixties, Stephen J. Whitfield, Historically Speaking January/February (2008) http://www.bu.edu/historic/_hs_pdfs/HS_sixties_forum_Jan_08.pdf
  • “‘Leave It to Beaver’ and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’: American Families in the 1950s,” The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trip, Stephanie Coontz, (New York: Basic Books, 1992)
  • Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties, James Wierzbicki (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2016)
  • New York in the Fifties, Dan Wakefield, Greenpoint Press (2011)
  • Race, Hegemony, and the Birth of Rock & Roll, Paul Linden, University of Southern Mississippi, Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association Volume 12, Number 1 (2012)
  • Rockin’ for Civil Rights, Eric Vaillancourt, (January 2011), https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118&context=ehd_theses
  • Roots of Rock – Doo Wops, https://www.shsu.edu/~lis_fwh/book/roots_of_rock/Doo-Wop2.htm
  • Social History of the United States: The 1950s, John C. Stoner and Alice L. George. (2008)
  • Survey of American Popular Music, Frank Hoffmann
  • That’s the Way It Is, A History of Television News in America, Charles L. Ponce de Leon
  • The Death and Life of Downtown Shopping District, Richard Florida, com, (June 4, 2012)
  • The 50s: The Story of a Decade, The New Yorker Magazine (2016)
  • The Fifties, David Halberstam (1993)
  • The Fifties: A Women’s Oral History, Brett Harvey, Harper Collins (1993)
  • The Fifties: The Way We Really Were, Douglas T Miller and Marion Nowak, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., (1977)
  • The Fifties Were Awful, But Not the Way You Think, Ronald W. Dworkin
  • The 1950’s and the 1960’s and the American Woman: The Transition from the “Housewife” to the Feminist, Vanessa Martins Lamb, (June 2011)
  • The Haunted Fifties, 1953-1963, A Nonconformist History of Our Times, F Stone (1989)
  • The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, Theodore Roszak, (New York: Anchor Books, 1969)
  • The Myth of the 1950s, Alan J. Levine (2008)
  • The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock and Roll and The Struggle for Civil /Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, http://nicestkids.com/nehvectors/nicest-kids/national
  • The Position of the Intellectual in the 1950s: Case Studies of J. D. Salinger and Ayn Rand, Stephen J. Bain, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
  • Trapped in the Kitchen: How Advertising Defined Women’s Roles in 1950s America, Courtney Catt, Waco, Texas (May 2014)
  • Urban Decline (and Success) in the United States, Fred Smith and Sarah Allen, Davidson College, EH.net
  • Who Really Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll, Jack Newfield, The New York Sun, (September 21, 2004) https://www.nysun.com/arts/who-really-invented-rock-n-roll/2037/
  • Whose Music, Whose Dances? Whose Culture? Race and American Bandstand : American Bandstand: West Philadelphia’s Seven-Year Wonder 1957-1964, John L. Puckett, https://collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/whose-music-whose-dances-whose-culture-race-and-american-bandstand