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Books

American Popular Music: A Reference Guide by Mark W. Booth
Call Number: REF ML102 .P66 B65 1983 (RH)
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Donald Clarke
Call Number: REF ML102 .P66 P5 1998 (RH)
New York, NY: Penguin, 1998.
Also available in stacks for check out
Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Reference, 1928 through 1993 by Don Franks
Call Number: PN2270 .A93 F68 1996 (RH)
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996.
Available in stacks for check out
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The Oxford Companion to Popular Music by Peter Gammond
Call Number: REF ML102 .P66 G35 1991 (RH); ML102 .P66 G35 1991 (LC)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Songcite: An Index to Popular Songs by William D. Goodfellow
Call Number: REF ML128 .P63 G65 1995 (RH)
New York, NY: Garland, 1995.

More Popular Music Resources

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: MUZE: Oxford University Press, 2006.
4th ed.
Rev. ed. of: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 2nd ed., 1995.
Also available in print, REF ML102 .P66 G84 2006 (RH)
In the Space of a Song: The Uses of Song in Film by R. Dyer
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 D94 2012 (RH)
New York, NY: Rutledge, 2012.
Popular Music: Topics, Trends, & Trajectories by Tara Brabazon
Call Number: ML3470 .B717 2012 (RH)
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2012.
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin
Call Number: ML102 .P66 G84 1995 (RH LC)
New York, NY: Stockton, 1995.
2nd ed.
The Da Capo Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music by Phil Hardy
Call Number: REF ML102 .P66 H37 1995 (RH); ML102 .P66 H37 1995 (LC)
New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1995.
Rev. & Updated ed. of: The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music
The Great Song Thesaurus by Roger Lax
Call Number: REF ML128 .S3 L3 1989 (RH)
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989.
2nd ed., updated & expanded
Facts Behind the Songs: A Handbook of American Popular Music From the Nineties to the '90s by Marvin E. Paymer (Ed.)
Call Number: REF ML102 .P66 F2 1993 (RH)
New York, NY: Garland, 1993.
A Dictionary of American Pop-Rock: Rock, Pop, Rhythm & Blues, Folk, Country, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Films, Musical Theater, Recording & Music Business by Arnold Shaw
Call Number: REF ML102 .P66 S5 1982 (RH); ML102 .P66 S5 1982 (LC)
New York, NY: Schirmer, 1982.
The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music by Tony Byworth (Ed.)
Call Number: REF ML102 .C7 B55 2007 (RH)
New York, NY: Billboard Books, 2007.

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