Audio/Video
Books
Brothers, Thomas, Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism , W.W. Norton and Company © 2014.
Brothers, Thomas, Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans , W.W. Norton and Company, © 2006.
Carmichael, Hoagy, The Stardust Road/Sometimes I Wonder – Da Capo Press © 1999.
Cusic, Don, Gene Autry: His Life and Career , McFarland & Company © 2007.
Dahan, Charlie B., and Linda Gennett Irmscher, Images of America: Gennett Records and Starr Piano , Arcadia Publishing © 2016.
Evans, David, Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues , Da Capo Press © 1982.
Evans, Philip R. and Linda K., Bix: The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story , Prelike Press © 1998.
Gioia, Ted, Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters who Revolutionized American Music , W.W. Norton and Company © 2008.
Gould, Todd, For Gold and Glory: Charlie Wiggins and the African-American Racing Car Circuit , Indiana University Press © 2002.
Harris, Michael W., The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church , Oxford Press © 1992.
Jones, Loyal, Radio’s Kentucky Mountain Boy: Bradley Kincaid , Berea College Appalachian Center © 1980.
Kennedy, Rick, Jelly Roll, Bix & Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America’s Musical Grassroots – Indiana University Press © 2013.
Kenney, William Howland, Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930 , Oxford Press © 1993.
King, Susan E. and Thomas D. Hamm, Images of America: Richmond, Indiana , Arcadia Publishing © 2015.
Lomax, Alan, The Land Where the Blues Began , The New Press © 1993.
Lomax, Alan, Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz,” Pantheon Press © 1993.
Miller, Karl Hagstrom, Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow , Duke University Press © 2010.
Powers, Ann, Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music , HarperCollins Publishers © 2017.
Remsberg, Rich, Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression , University of Illinois Press © 2010.
Rust, B.A.L. and Walter C. Allen, King Joe Oliver , the Jazz Book Club © 1957.
Schiedt, Duncan, The Jazz State of Indiana – Indiana Historical Society Press © 1999.
Sudhalter, Richard M., Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael – Oxford University Press © 2002.
Sutton, Allan, Race Records and the American Recording Industry, 1919-1945, Mainspring Press © 2016.
Sutton, Allan, Recording the Twenties: The Evolution of the American Recording Industry, 1920-29 , Mainspring Press © 2008.
Uzzel, Robert, Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, and His Legacy , Eakin Press © 1995.
Ward, Brian and Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on Records , Country Music Foundation Press © 2018.
Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns, Jazz: A History of America’s Music , Alfred A. Knopf © 2000.
Wynne, Ben, In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and the Roots of American Music , Louisiana State University Press © 2014.
Recordings
Gennett Jazz, 1922 – 1930 , Various Artists, JSP Records © 2009.Gennett Old Time Music: Classic Country Recordings, 1927 – 1934 , Various Artists, JSP Records © 2010.Gennett Rarities: Recorded in Birmingham, AL and Richmond, IN, 1927-1929 , Various Artists, Jazz Oracle © 1998.Gennett Records: Greatest Hits, Volume 1 , Various Artists, Starr-Gennett Foundation © 2007.Gennett Records: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 , Various Artists, Starr-Gennett Foundation © 2008.Hot Dance on Gennett: The Actual Music of the Roaring Twenties , Various Artists, Vintage Music Productions © 2007.King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band with Louis Armstrong – The Complete Gennett Recordings, 1923 , King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Book of the Month Records © 1992.Timeless Historical Presents Those Fabulous Gennetts, 1923-25 , Various Artists, Timeless Holland © 2000.Timeless Historical Presents Those Fabulous Gennetts II, 1922-25 , Various Artists, Timeless Holland, © 2000.Discography
Charlie B. Dahan, a Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN, maintains a comprehensive discography of the Gennett recording archives. The discography can be accessed at gennettdiscography.com .
Educational Resources
American Roots Music: Tapping the Roots of American Music – A Teacher’s Guide , Lesson Plans and Bibliography, http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_into_the_classroom.html Archives of African-American Music and Culture, Indiana University Online Archive and Link to Special Collections, https://aaamc.indiana.edu/More-Resources
Blues Classroom: “The Blues” National Educational Outreach Campaign , Lesson Plans and Teachers’ Guide, http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom.html Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum: Teacher Resources – Digital Resource Portal, https://countrymusichalloffame.org/contentpages/teacher-resources#.Ww7RU9Mvz-Y
“Groovin’ To Jazz” Lesson Plans , The National Museum of American History – The Smithsonian Institution, http://americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz Let Freedom Swing: Jazz for Young People: Jazz and Democracy, Jazz and the Great Migration, Jazz and Civil Rights – On Tour Concert Classroom Resource Guide, published by Jazz at Lincoln Center, https://academy.jazz.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17-18_JFYP_Concert-Resource-Guide.pdf National Association for Music Education – Curriculum Units, Music Educator Certification, Music in Our Schools Program, https://nafme.org/
