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Resources Bibliography

American Music

Black Music Research Journal

Center for Black Music Research

Ethnomusicology

Folk Music Index

Floyd, Samuel A., Jr. International Dictionary of Black Composers. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,

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Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music

Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM)

Kernfeld, Barry. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. New York: Grove, 2002.

Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lenox Avenue: A Journal of Interarts Inquiry

Oxford Music Online

Women and Music

Tharpe Bibliography

The American Folk-Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966.Distributed by Universal

Music Distribution, 2007.

American Masters. “Sister Rosetta Tharpe.” Season 27, episode 1. Directed by Mick
Csaky. PBS. 2/22/2013. Accessed 10/8/2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_n0vkzc8PU

Bohlman, Philip V. World Music: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2002.
Boyd, Herb. “‘Soul’ Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Pioneer Vocalist and Guitarist.” New York
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Cosby, James A. Devil’s Music Holy Rollers and Hillbillies: How America Gave Birth to
Rock and Roll. McFarland, 2016.

Diaz-Hurtado, Jessica. “Forebears: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Godmother of

Rock’N’Roll.” NPR. Last modified 2017.
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Heilbut, Tony. The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times. Limelight Editions, 1997.

Jackson, Jerma A. “Testifying at the Cross: Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, and the Politics of African-American Sacred and Secular Music.” PhD diss.,
Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1995. ProQuest
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Michael, Ross. “Forgotten Heroes: Sister Rosetta Tharpe.” Premier Guitar, May 2011.
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Oliver, Paul, and Howard Rye. “Tharpe, Sister Rosetta”. The New Grove Dictionary of
Jazz, Vol 3. London: Macmillan, 2002.

“Rosetta Tharp Gives Concert.” New York Times, 1954.

“Sister Rosetta Tharpe Biography.” Biography.com. Last modified 2014. Accessed 2018.
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Tharpe, Sister Rosetta. The Lonesome Road. Decca, 1941.

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Decca.

Tharpe, Sister Rosetta. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. MGM.

Wald, Gayle. “From Spirituals to Swing: Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Gospel Crossover.
”American Quarterly 55, no. 3 (2003): 387–416.

Wald, Gayle. “Reviving Rosetta Tharpe: Performance and Memory in the 21st Century.”
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 16, no. 1 (2006): 91–106.

Wald, Gayle. “Rosetta Tharpe and Feminist ‘Un-Forgetting’.” Journal of Women’s History
21, no. 4 (2009): 157–160, 225.

Wald, Gayle. Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister
Rosetta Tharpe. Boston: Boston : Beacon Press, 2007.

White, Charles. The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography.
Omnibus Press, 2003.