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reitzrosetta Inventory of the Rosetta Reitz Papers, 1929-2008 Processed by: Clay Boyer, Timothy Obert, and Jeremy Smith; machine-readable finding aid created by: Clay Boyer, Timothy Obert, and Jeremy Smith David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: June 2009Processed by Clay Boyer, Timothy Obert, and Jeremy Smith, June 2009 and June 2010; finding aid encoded by Clay Boyer, Timothy Obert, and Jeremy Smith, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, June 2009 and June 2010 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Inventory of the Rosetta Reitz Papers, 1929-2008 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Reitz, Rosetta, 1924-2008. Rosetta Reitz Papers, 1929-2008 Material in English 41 Linear Feet 30,750 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Rosetta Reitz (1924-2008) was a business owner, stock broker, university lecturer, and writer on issues including food, feminism, women's health, and female jazz and blues musicians. She was also the founder and owner of Rosetta Records, a company most prominent in the 1980s that was dedicated to re-releasing historic recordings by female jazz and blues musicians. The Rosetta Reitz Papers address aspects of the entirety of Reitz's career, with the majority related to Rosetta Records and to Reitz's associated music research since the 1970s. The collection contains company documents, research notes, manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photocopies, photographs, a variety of audio and moving image formats, as well as magazines and books. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. However, collection may contain materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this form before using this collection. Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.

In addition, all original audio and moving image materials are CLOSED to patron listening and/or viewing. However, researchers can access the original artifacts for the purpose of reading liner notes and carrying out other text-based studies. Scanned images of all LP covers and liner notes are available in JPEG format on DVD 1 in Box 58. CD or DVD use copies, which are OPEN to patron use, are available for some items and are noted below. Unless otherwise noted, use copies must be made for access to audio and moving image content.

Also, the data CD in Box 58 titled Women's Blues and Jazz: Their Magic 1920 to 1950s is subject to the following restriction. Researchers who draw upon the 89 PDF files on this CD for publication are allowed to quote up to ten lines of text without prior permission, as long as proper attribution is given. Any quotation of the text beyond that line limit requires permission from the copyright holder. This restriction will be in effect until December 31, 2035 after which use of the material on this data CD will be governed exclusively by United States copyright law. Patrons must sign a separate Acknowledgment form prior to using this material. See Collection Control File for more information.

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[Identification of item], Rosetta Reitz Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University

Provenance

The Rosetta Reitz Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in May 2009 and June 2010.

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Processed by Clay Boyer, Timothy Obert, and Jeremy Smith, June 2009 and June 2010.

Encoded by Clay Boyer, Timothy Obert, and Jeremy Smith, June 2009 and June 2010.

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Biographical Note

Rosetta Reitz (née Goldman) was born in Utica, New York on September 28, 1924, the youngest of six children. After graduating from the Utica Free Academy at the age of 16, Reitz studied at the University of Buffalo, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin. In 1945, she moved to New York City, where, aside from a brief time living in New Jersey in the 1950s, she would spend the remainder of her life. Reitz married Robert Reitz in the mid-1940s, with whom she had three daughters prior to their divorce in 1963.

During the course of her career, Reitz was involved in a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. She owned several businesses, including the Four Seasons Book Shop (1946-1954), the Four Seasons Greeting Card Company (1954-1961), and Rosetta Records (1979-2008). She worked as a representative and a stock broker for several financial institutions (1967-1970), and she was a newspaper columnist at the Village Voice on issues of food (1958-1963), feminism (1971), and jazz (1973). Reitz lectured at numerous universities on topics including food history (1960-1961), menopause and women's health (1973-1977), and the history of female blues and jazz musicians (1977-2000s). Reitz was also the author of several published books and articles on mushrooms (and food more broadly), menopause (and women's health and feminism more broadly), the blues, and jazz. Among her many honors and awards are: a Wonder Woman Award (1982), a Grandmother Winifred Grant (1994), the International Association of Jazz Educators Outstanding Service Award (1998), and the Veteran Feminists of America Honor Roll (2002). Reitz passed away on November 1, 2008 from issues related to cardiopulmonary disease.

Collection Overview

The Rosetta Reitz Papers span the dates 1929-2008, with the bulk of the material covering the period of the late 1970s through the 2000s. While the collection addresses aspects of the entirety of her career, the vast majority is related to Rosetta Records and Reitz's related music research. The collection is divided into eight series: Biographical Information, Rosetta Records Business Files, Presentations, Writings, Photographs, Posters, Audio and Moving Images, and Reference Materials.

The Biographical Information Series contains published and unpublished writings, correspondence, resume materials, and scrapbooks by and about Rosetta Reitz.

The Rosetta Records Business Files Series contains materials related to the founding of Rosetta Records in 1979 and its daily operations in the decades that followed, which primarily focus on the design and production of the company's catalog releases. Also of note are the files related to Reitz's involvement with Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss in creating a documentary film on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Print materials related to the many concerts, lectures, presentations, and courses that Reitz produced and/or taught on jazz, the blues, and other topics are found in the Presentations Series. Of note are the files related to Reitz's numerous presentations of Shouters and Wailers, which was an evolving film-based lecture that Reitz delivered throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, that focused on female jazz and blues musicians.

The Writings Series contains manuscript drafts, research notes, and other materials related to Reitz's written works on food, feminism and women's health, and female jazz and blues musicians, including writing related to her grassroots advocacy for the creation of a US postage stamp honoring Bessie Smith.

The Photographs Series primarily contains 8x10 publicity photographs of various jazz and blues musicians, along with other candid photographs from Reitz's life and career.

Oversize promotional materials, primarily related to Reitz's film-based Shouters and Wailers presentations, but also related to individual female jazz and blues musicians, are located in the Posters Series.

The Audio and Moving Image Series contains all of the commercial releases by Rosetta Records in cassette, LP, and/or CD formats, including recordings featuring Ida Cox, Dorothy Donegan, Lil Green, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Valaida Snow, Rosetta Tharpe, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Mae West, Georgia White, and others. It also contains audio recordings of the Blues is a Woman concerts, hosted by Carmen McRae, that Reitz produced for the Kool Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival in the early 1980s. Also a part of the series are VHS and 16mm film of musical performances by female jazz and blues musicians that originally aired on television and that Reitz compiled as a part of her ongoing research. Original audio and moving image materials are closed to listening and viewing. However, researchers can access the original artifacts for the purpose of reading liner notes and carrying out other text-based studies. Scanned images of all LP covers and liner notes are available in JPEG format on DVD 1 in Box 58. CD or DVD use copies, which are open to patron use, are available for some items and are noted below. Unless otherwise noted, use copies must be made for access to audio and moving image content.

The Reference Materials Series contains newspaper clippings, magazines, and books, primarily related to jazz and the blues, that Reitz drew upon in the course of her ongoing research and writing.

Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

16 mm. Audiocassettes. Blues musicians. Clippings. CD-ROMs. Cox, Ida, 1889-1967. Donegan, Dorothy. Feminism. Food writing. Green, Lil, 1919-1954. International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Jazz. Jazz musicians. Kool Jazz Festival. Long-playing records. McRae, Carmen. Menopause. Mushrooms. Newport Jazz Festival. Photographs. Record labels. Reitz, Rosetta. Rosetta Records (Firm) Schiller, Greta. Scrapbooks. Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937. Snow, Valaida. Tharpe, Rosetta, d. 1973. Videocassettes. Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963. Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977. Weiss, Andrea. West, Mae. White, Georgia, 1903-1980. Women--Health and hygiene. Women blues musicians. Women jazz musicians. Women jazz musicians--United States. Contents of Collection Biographical Information Series, 1958-2008 (3 boxes)

Contains biographical and autobiographical information by and about Rosetta Reitz, including her work both inside and outside the music business. Comprises published and unpublished writings, correspondence, resume materials, and scrapbooks.

1 Autobiographical Writings and Biographical Files, 1967-2008 (3 folders)

Autobiographical sketches by Reitz as well as published articles and obituaries on Reitz. There are also files documenting some of Reitz's numerous music-related concerts, lectures, and presentations.

Personal Correspondence, 1958-2004 (13 folders)

Correspondence with various family members, as well as Sippie Wallace, Dick Weissman, Caroline Robinson, Duncan Scheidt, Connie Berry, Francis Smith, Maurica King, Dick Newmark, Ron Lofman, and others.

Awards, 1981-2004 (4 folders)

Correspondence, certificates, press releases, newspaper clippings, and other material related to various grants and awards Reitz received, including the Wonder Woman Award (1982), a Grandmother Winifred Grant (1994), the International Association of Jazz Educators Outstanding Service Award (1998), and the Veteran Feminists of America Honor Roll (2002).

Job Application Materials, 1963-1993 (6 folders)

Correspondence, clippings, articles, resumes, job applications, and other material related to Reitz's work as a stockbroker, bookstore owner, magazine columnist, and university professor, as well as her consulting work on issues of music, food, and women's health.

2-3 Scrapbooks

Two scrapbooks compiled by Reitz that contain a variety of newspaper clippings relating to Reitz, Rosetta Records, and various female jazz and blues musicians.

Rosetta Records Business Files Series, 1978-2002 (4 boxes)

Rosetta Records was founded by Reitz in 1979, and the company released a total of eighteen recordings and one film, all related to female jazz and blues musicians. While the company was most active in the 1980s, Rosetta Records continued to release recordings into the 1990s. The majority of this series contains materials related to the founding of the company and the design and manufacturing of its catalog releases. An additional eight folders document Reitz's involvement in a documentary film project about the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Catalog Releases

Contains liner note text, artist research, elements of cover design, and related correspondence. Arranged by official Rosetta Records catalog numbers.

41300: Mean Mothers 1301: Women's Railroad Blues(2 folders) 1302: Red, White, and Blues 1303: Piano Singers' Blues 1304: Ida Cox - Wild Women Don't Have The Blues 1305: Valaida Snow - Hot Snow 1306: Big Mamas 1307: Georgia White - Sings and Plays 1308: Super Sisters 1309: Boogie Blues 1310: Lil Green - Chicago 1940-1947 1311: Sweet Petunias 1312: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm 1313: Dinah Washington - Wise Woman's Blues 1314: Ethel Waters - 1938-1939, The Complete Bluebird Sessions 1315: Mae West - Sixteen Sultry Songs 51316: Jailhouse Blues (3 folders) 1317: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Sacred and Secular, Gospel-Blues-Jazz 1318: Dorothy Donegan - Dorothy Romps (2 folders) 1320: Jazz Women On Video - 1932-1952 Miscellaneous Project Ideas (3 folders)

Ideas for future catalog releases, including related correspondence, with plans for a release devoted to June Richmond and a compilation tentatively titled S+M Blues.

Manufacturing Files(7 folders)

Records related to the physical production of the catalog releases, including notes on barcode design, invoices from the Hauppauge Record Manufacturing company, and ideas for CD and LP label design. Two folders contain photocopies of photographic images related to possible releases.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm Documentary, 1981-1990

These records pertain to Rosetta Reitz's involvement in a documenary film project about the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Reitz met independent film producers Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss in 1983, and the three, along with Reitz's daughter Rebecca, began to share creative responsibilities for the project. In 1986, with much of the work on the film completed, Reitz parted company with Schiller and Weiss over creative differences and disagreements over copyright license issues. Schiller and Weiss retained control of the project and began showing the finished film in late 1986. A large part of this series comprises legal correspondence and memoranda regarding the dispute between the parties, which lasted until 1990.

6Grant Applications Invoices Film Showings Legal Files (2 folders) Project Files Permissions Correspondence Record Reviews, 1980-1992 (3 folders)

Published reviews of various releases from the Rosetta Records catalog. Also contains homemade press clippings assembled by Reitz from published reviews.

Advertisements, 1985-1986 and undated (2 folders)

Contains print advertisements and press releases, along with related materials, for Rosetta Records. Also contains order forms for postcards of female jazz and blues musicians, created by Rosetta Records.

Company Correspondence, 1979-2002

Contains a variety of correspondence between Reitz and fans, critics, scholars, and others related to Rosetta Records. One folder is devoted to correspondence and other materials related to the Smithsonian Institution recording project The Story of the Blues.

Legal and Financial Files, 1978-1999

Invoices, order forms, licensing agreements, and other documents related to Rosetta Records.

7Detroit Public Library Invoices Music Exchange Invoices Paradox Invoices Pollyjazz Invoices Catalog Order Forms Copyright Licensing Agreements Financial Information Chelsea Mini Storage Presentations Series, 1980-1996 (3 boxes)

Includes print materials related to concerts Reitz produced, along with lectures, presentations, and courses Reitz designed. For related photographs and audio recordings, see Photographs Series and Audio and Video Recordings Series.

8 Blues Is a Woman, 1980-1990

A concert produced by Reitz emphasizing the history of female blues singers, hosted by Carmen McRae. Contains correspondence, programs, reviews, financial information, drafts of scripts, and related information for the performances at the Newport Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1980), the Hollywood Bowl (1981), and Boston's Symphony Hall (1990).

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues, 1981 (8 folders)

A concert produced by Reitz featuring live performances by Nell Carter, Linda Hopkins, and Sippie Wallace along with choreography, film clips, and photographic slides. Series contains correspondence, programs, reviews, financial information, drafts of scripts, and related information for the performance at the Kool Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1981).

9 Women Blow Their Own Horns, 1981

A concert produced by Reitz and hosted by Melba Tolliver at the Kool Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall (1981) featuring over twenty female jazz instrumentalists and ensembles. Folder contains correspondence, programs, reviews, drafts of scripts, and related information.

Shouters and Wailers, 1982-1996

An evolving presentation by Reitz based on numerous film clips of early female jazz and blues musicians. Series contains correspondence, programs, and related materials and is arranged alphabetically by location of presentation.

Film Inquiries Boston, 1983 Brown University, 1982 Collective for Living Cinema, 1983 College of Wooster, 1984 Cornell University, 1985 Davis and Elkins College, 1995 Detroit, 1982 Germany - Festival der Frauen, 1988 (2 folders) Harvard University Indiana, 1984 Jersey City College, 1988 Landmark Theatre, 1987 Mt. Vernon Library, 1991 New Community Cinema, 1990 New Jersey New School, The (courses and lectures), 1989-1991 New York, 1984 Princeton University, Queens Museum of Art, 1996 Rome, NY, 1990 Rutgers University Tacoma, 1992 Toronto, 1990 University of Connecticut, 1991 University of Wisconsin, 1987 Upstate Films, 1990 Vassar College, 1993 Westchester, 1991 Wisconsin, 1984 Missouri - Women's Jazz Festival, 1985 Woodstock, 1985 10 Miscellaneous Presentations on Female Musicians, 1973-1994 (18 folders)

Correspondence, programs, promotional material, reviews, and related materials from a variety of presentations and lectures by Reitz.

Bessie Smith Traditional Jazz Festival, 1991-1992 Blues and Jazz Women, 1982 Blues Lecture - Scarsdale High School, 1980-1981 DeMaurier Downtown Jazz Festival - Toronto, Canada, 1990 Guest Appearances on Various Radio Shows, 1973-1977 History of African American Women in Music - Wellesley College International Festival of Women's Film - Toronto, 1984 Jazz Divas on Film - Lincoln Center, 1992 Jazzwomen - Manhattan College Mean Mothers National Women's Hall of Fame - Bessie Smith Induction, 1984 Ross Associates Women of Achievement, 1983 Women are History, 1984 Women in Blues - Smithsonian, 1985 Women in Jazz, 1986-1994 (3 folders)

Includes presentations at Utica College (1994), Woodstock (1993), and Greenwich House (1986).

Women's Jazz Festival - Kansas City, 1985 Writings Series, 1959-2006 (6 boxes)

Throughout her career, Reitz wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction pieces, some of which were published and some of which remained in manuscript form. These included the book, Mushroom Cookery (1965) and a variety of articles on food that were primarily related to her work as a food critic in the 1960s; the book, Menopause: A Positive Approach (1977) and other writings on women's health and feminism primarily in the 1970s; and a number of ongoing projects related to music primarily in the 1980s and beyond. The majority of this series relates to Reitz's music writings, containing drafts, research notes, and related materials.

Women's Blues and Jazz: Their Magic 1920 to 1950s, manuscript, 1978-2006

Book manuscript by Reitz that underwent several title changes during the course of its writing. Those included: The Blues Women: 1920-1950 (1978-1981), Mean Mothers and Their Sisters Shout the Independent Blues (1981-1987), Bessie to Billie: The Poetry of Women's Blues 1920 to 1950s (1997-1998), and Everywoman's Blues: Singers and Their Songs 1920 to 1950s (2000-2001).

58Data CD titled Women's Blues and Jazz: Their Magic 1920 to 1950s (1 Data CD, 89 PDF files)

Complete drafts of each proposed chapter for the book manuscript Women's Blues and Jazz, along with related files, all in PDF format. Original titles retained.

The 89 PDF files contained on this data CD are subject to the following restrictions. Researchers who draw upon these materials for publication are allowed to quote up to ten lines of text without prior permission, as long as proper attribution is given. Any quotation of the text beyond that line limit requires permission from the copyright holder. This restriction will be in effect until December 31, 2035 after which use of the material on this data CD will be governed exclusively by United States copyright law. Patrons must sign a separate Acknowledgment form prior to using this material. See Collection Control File for more information.

11Book Proposals, 1978-2006 (7 folders)

Proposals to various presses of Women's Blues and Jazz and earlier versions. Arranged chronologically and by relative book title.

Chapter Drafts (6 folders) Dedication and Bibliography Introductory Chapter It's Tight Like That The Precursors Traditional Lines Women's Reign Manuscripts on Individual Musicians (30 folders)

Chapter-length writings, along with some associated research notes, that were either included or considered for inclusion in the book manuscript.

Alexander, Ora Armstrong, Lil Baker, LaVerne Boswell, Connee Brown, Ruth Davis, Martha Donegan, Dorothy Dranes, Arizona Edwards, Susie 12Fields, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Ella Hall, Juanita Holiday, Billie Humes, Helen Hunter, Alberta Lee, Julia McDaniel, Hattie McRae, Carmen McKinney, Nina Mae Minnie, Memphis Smith, Bessie Smith, Trixie Spivey, Victoria Vaughan, Sarah Wallace, Sippie (2 folders) Waters, Ethel White, Georgia Wiley, Lee Wilson, Edith Images (14 folders)

Non-photographic duplications of, and notes regarding, images considered for inclusion in the book manuscript. Arranged by relative chapter.

Other Unpublished Music Writings, 1977-1998 and undated

Project ideas and unpublished manuscripts for a variety of music-related projects.

13Blues is Like Chicken Soup Classic Blues Queens A Hot Romance: Lil and Louis

Correspondence, chapter drafts, research notes, and related material for a book manuscript on the life and career of Lil Hardin Armstrong.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm Feature Film, 1992-1994 (4 folders)

Correspondence, script drafts, research notes, and related material for a planned feature film written by Reitz, Bob Newman, and Beverly Sawyer along with an earlier script by Dianne Houston.

Project Ideas and Proposals(21 folders)

Correspondence, research notes, and related files for a variety of proposed artistic projects.

Book of the Month Club Record Proposal Charlotte's Kidnapping Composite Woman, 1992 Heresies, 1980 Hot Flashes Musical Revue (2 folders)

Contains song lyrics by Reitz along with research notes for the proposed revue.

14The Lady Film Legacy, 1991 Madame C.J. Walker Film Mean Mothers and Women's Blues at the Village Gate, 1980 Mean Mothers Television Show, 1980 Notes for a Novel, 1977-1980 Shouters and Wailers Film, 1983-1985 Sisters of Liberty Musical, 1986 Valaida Film Vogue Magazine Column Proposal, 1978 Wild Women Don't Have the Blues - Savvy Magazine Proposal, 1980-1981 A Woman's Jazz Band, 1992-1998 Women in American Popular Song, 1981 Women of Wall Street, 1988 Women's Minstrelsy, 1998 Related Research Notes (3 folders)

Clippings, notes, and other material related to Reitz's various music writings.

15Related Research Notes, continued (7 folders) Published Music Writings, 1973-1992

Arranged chronologically.

15Riffs, a recurring column in The Village Voice (1973-1974). Various Short Pieces (1980).

Brief published articles on topics including Sippie Wallace, Bessie Smith, and other female jazz and blues musicians.

The Blues of Sippie Wallace and B.B. King, Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival Program (August 28 - September 1, 1980), pp. 40-41, 43. Women Blow Their Own Horns, Kool Jazz Festival Program (June 26 - July 5, 1981). The Apollo, in Motown Returns to the Apollo, 50th Anniversary (New York: Jewell Jackson McCabe Associates, 1985), pp. 26-34, 94-99. Sweethearts on Parade, Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts and Letters (1986). Big Mamas, Hot Wire: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture 8/3 (September 1992), pp. 18-21. Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues, in Notable Black American Women (Detroit: Gale Research, 1992). Feminist Writings, 1971-2002 16Menopause: A Positive Approach (Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1977), 1977-2002 (4 folders)

Correspondence, research files, order forms, advertisements, dust jackets, reviews, and related material.

Other Feminist Writings, 1971-1996 (6 folders)

Published and unpublished writings by Reitz, including her article, The Liberation of the Yiddisha Mama (1971) and her grassroots advocacy for a US postage stamp honoring Bessie Smith (1979-1996).

Food Writings, 1959-1971

Research notes, correspondence, article submissions, and other material related to Reitz's writings on food, recipes, and restaurants.

16Food writings (7 folders) Photographs Series (3 boxes)

Individual photographs, primarily 8x10 publicity shots, of jazz and blues musicians. Also contains images related to Reitz's presentations or intended for use in Reitz's publications.

Individual Photos

8x10 publicity shots of individual musicians.

17Ammons, Gene Anderson, Ivie Anderson, Marian Armstrong, Lil Armstrong, Louis Baker, Josephine Barnes, Mae Bartz, Gary Bennett, Tony Bryant, Willie Booze, Wee Bae Bradley, Ruth Bricktop Brooks, Hadda Broonzy, Big Bill Brown, Jewel Brown, Lilian Brown, Ruth Buggs, Marie Butterbeans and Susie Carlisle, Una Mae Carpenter, Thelma Carter, Betty Carter, Nell Coltrane, John Crooker, Dorothy Donegan, Dorothy Ellington, Duke Fitzgerald, Ella Franklin, Aretha Frazee Sisters Freeman, L Sharon Gordon, Dexter Green, Lil Greenfield, Mimi Hall, Adelaide Hall, Audrey Hawkins, Coleman Heywood, Eddie Hill, Bertha Hines, Earl Fatha Holiday, Billie Hopkins, Linda Horne, Lena Humes, Helen Humphrey, Bobbi Hunter, Alberta Hutton, Ina Ray International Sweethearts of Rhythm James, Etta Johnson, Ella Johnson, James P. Johnson, Lonnie Jones, Albinia Laine, Cleo Lee, Peggy Lincoln, Abbey Marcelle, Miss Maria, Diamond Teeth Martin, Sarah McCoy, Viola McDaniel, Hattie McKinney, Nina Mae McPartland, Marian McRae, Carmen Mercer, Mabel Merritt, Theresa Miles, Lizzie Minnie, Memphis Murphy, Rose Nelson, Novella Parker, Charlie Parker, Gloria Raelets, The Rainey, Ma Reitz, Rosetta Revolutionary Ensemble Rosie the Riveter Scott, Hazel 18Shipp, Ginger Smock Singer, Lillian Slavin, Estelle Smith, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Mamie Smith, Viola Snow, Valaida Spivey, Victoria Sticht, Betty Sullivan, Maxine Sylvester, Hannah Taylor, Eva Taylor, Koko Thomas, Hociel Thomas, Irma Thornton, Big Mama Tucker, Sophie Tyner, McCoy Vaughan, Sarah Walker, Ada Overton Walker, Madame C.J. Wallace, Sippie Walsh, Kay Washington, Dinah Waters, Ethel Wells, Darlene West, Mae Williams, Mary Lou Wilson, Edith Wilson, Teddy Young, Lester Unidentified Subjects Themed Photos 18Photos for inclusion in book manuscript Women's Blues and Jazz: Their Magic 1920 to 1950s Photos from Blues is a Woman, 1980-1981 Photos for Jailhouse Blues Album (#1316) Photographic proofs by Duncan Schiedt Negatives and Slides

Contains negatives and/or slides of some of the images from Box 17 and Box 18. A significant number relate to the various presentations of Blues Is a Woman.

19Negatives and Slides Posters Series (1 box)

Posters related to Reitz's presentations and research, including various promotional posters for Shouters and Wailers presentations along with those related to individual female jazz and blues musicians. (3 folders)

20Posters Audio and Moving Image Series, 1929-2002 (15 boxes)

Contains all of the commercial audio recordings released by Rosetta Records in cassette, LP, and/or CD format. Also contains noncommercial recordings of the Blues is a Woman presentations and other events featuring Reitz. The moving image materials primarily comprise VHS and 16 mm film of musical performances that originally aired on television, compiled by Reitz as a part of her ongoing research into female jazz and blues musicians. Arranged by format.

RESTRICTIONS: All original audio and moving image materials are CLOSED to patron use. However, researchers can access the original artifacts for the purpose of reading liner notes and carrying out other text-based studies. Scanned images of all LP covers and liner notes are available in JPEG format on DVD 1 in Box 58. CD or DVD use copies, which are OPEN to patron use, are available for some items and are noted below. Unless otherwise noted, use copies must be made for access to content.

Audio Cassettes, 1980-1994 and undated Commercial Recordings

Arranged by official Rosetta Records catalog numbers. CD use copies are available in Box 58.

21RC 1300: Mean Mothers. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 1. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1980). RC 1303: Piano Singer’s Blues: 16 Historic Foremothers Accompany Themselves. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). RC 1306: Big Mamas. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 2. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). RC 1308: Super Sisters. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 3. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). RC 1310: Lil Green. Foremothers, Volume 5. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). RC 1311: Sweet Petunias. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 4. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date). RC 1312: International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). RC 1313: Dinah Washington: Wise Woman Blues. Foremothers, Volume 4. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). RC 1314: Ethel Waters: 1938-1939. Foremothers, Volume 6. (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1986). RC 1315: Mae West: Sixteen Sultry Songs. Foremothers, Volume 7. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date). RC 1316: Jailhouse Blues. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1987). RC 1317: Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Sacred and Secular. Foremothers, Volume 3. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date). RC 1318: Dorothy Romps: A Piano Retrospective 1953-1979. Foremothers, Volume 9. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1991). Noncommercial Recordings

Original titles have been retained. CD use copies are available in Box 58.

101: Blues is a Woman (parts 1-2). July 2, 1980. 102: Blues is a Woman (parts 3-4). July 2, 1980. 103: Hollywood Bowl Rehearsal with Linda Hopkins, Vi Redd, Sammy Price, Big Mama Thornton, and Carmen McRae. July 28, 1981. 104-105: Jazz Alive! Fall Premier, The Blues is a Woman - Hollywood Bowl. July 29, 1981. (two cassettes) 106: Interview with Rosetta Reitz. March 10, 1985. 107: Interview with Rosetta Reitz. March 8, 1991. 108: Sweethearts Meeting.

Meeting among Rosetta Reitz, Rebecca Reitz, Greta Schiller, and Andrea Weiss regarding legal disputes over the production of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm documentary film.

109: Voice of America, Bessie Centennial. April 8, 1994. Compact Disc, 1990 RRCD 1300: Mean Mothers. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 1. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1990). Open Reel Audio Tape Brown Bee Boogie by Hazel Scott. Undated. LPs, 1980-1988 and undated

Contains commercial releases by Rosetta Records. Arranged by official Rosetta Records catalog numbers. CD use copies are available in Box 58.

22RR 1300: Mean Mothers. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 1. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1980). RR 1301: Sorry But I Can’t Take You: Women’s Railroad Blues. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1980). RR 1302: Red, White, and Blues: Women Sing of America. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date). RR 1303: Piano Singer’s Blues: Women Accompany Themselves. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). RR 1304: Ida Cox: Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues. Foremothers, Volume 1. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1981). RR 1305: Hot Snow: Valaida Snow Queen of the Trumpet Sings and Swings. Foremothers, Volume 2. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). RR 1306: Big Mamas. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 2. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). RR 1307: Georgia White Sings and Plays the Blues. Foremothers, Volume 3. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). [album cover only; no LP] RR 1308: Super Sisters. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 3. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). RR 1309: Boogie Blues: Women Sing and Play Boogie Woogie. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1983). [album cover only; no LP] 23RR 1310: Lil Green: Chicago 1940-1947. Foremothers, Volume 5. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). RR 1311: Sweet Petunias. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 4. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date). [album cover only; no LP] RR 1312: International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1984). [album cover only; no LP] RR 1313: Dinah Washington: Wise Woman Blues. Foremothers, Volume 4. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1984). RR 1314: Ethel Waters: 1938-1939. Foremothers, Volume 6. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1986). RR 1315: Mae West: Sixteen Sultry Songs. Foremothers, Volume 7. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1987). RR 1316: Jailhouse Blues. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1987). RR 1317: Sincerely, Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Sacred and Secular. Foremothers, Volume 8. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1988). CD and DVD Use Copies

Contains CD use copies for audio materials in boxes 21-23 and DVD use copies of scanned images of all LP covers and liner notes. Identified by official Rosetta Records catalog numbers or by assigned number, for noncommercial material.

CD Use Copies of Commercial Recordings

Identified by official Rosetta Records catalog numbers.

58 1300Digital copy of Mean Mothers. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 1. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1980). 1301Digital copy of Sorry But I Can’t Take You: Women’s Railroad Blues. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1980). 1302Digital copy of Red, White, and Blues: Women Sing of America. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date) 1303Digital copy of Piano Singer’s Blues: Women Accompany Themselves. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). 1304Digital copy of Ida Cox: Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues. Foremothers, Volume 1. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1981). 1305Digital copy of Hot Snow: Valaida Snow Queen of the Trumpet Sings and Swings. Foremothers, Volume 2. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). 1306Digital copy of Big Mamas. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 2. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). 1307Digital copy of Georgia White Sings and Plays the Blues. Foremothers, Volume 3. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). 1308Digital copy of Super Sisters. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 3. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1982). 1309Digital copy of Boogie Blues: Women Sing and Play Boogie Woogie. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1983). 1310Digital copy of Lil Green: Chicago 1940-1947. Foremothers, Volume 5. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1985). 1311Digital copy of Sweet Petunias. Independent Women’s Blues, Volume 4. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, no date). 1312Digital copy of International Sweethearts of Rhythm. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1984). 1313Digital copy of Dinah Washington: Wise Woman Blues. Foremothers, Volume 4. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1984). 1314Digital copy of Ethel Waters: 1938-1939. Foremothers, Volume 6. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1986). 1315Digital copy of Mae West: Sixteen Sultry Songs. Foremothers, Volume 7. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1987). 1316Digital copy of Jailhouse Blues. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1987). 1317Digital copy of Sincerely, Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Sacred and Secular. Foremothers, Volume 8. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1988). 1318Digital copy of Dorothy Romps: A Piano Retrospective 1953-1979. Foremothers, Volume 9. Women’s Heritage Series (Rosetta Records and Tapes, 1991). CD Use Copies of Noncommercial Recordings

Original titles have been retained.

581JAD-2009-0003-101ABlues is a Woman, Part 1, 43 mins, July 2, 1980 JAD-2009-0003-101BBlues is a Woman, Part 2, 15 mins, July 2, 1980 2JAD-2009-0003-102ABlues is a Woman, Part 3, 25 mins, July 2, 1980 JAD-2009-0003-102BBlues is a Woman, Part 4, 27 mins, July 2, 1980 3JAD-2009-0003-103AHollywood Bowl Rehearsal, Part 1, July 28, 1981 JAD-2009-0003-103BHollywood Bowl Rehearsal, Part 2, July 28, 1981 4JAD-2009-0003-104AJazz Alive! - Blues is a Woman, Part 1, July 29, 1981. 5JAD-2009-0003-104BJazz Alive! - Blues is a Woman, Part 2, July 29, 1981 6JAD-2009-0003-105AJazz Alive! - Blues is a Woman, Part 3, July 29, 1981 JAD-2009-0003-105BJazz Alive! - Blues is a Woman, Part 4, July 29, 1981 7JAD-2009-0003-106AInterview with Rosetta Reitz, Part 1, March 10, 1985 JAD-2009-0003-106BInterview with Rosetta Reitz, Part 2, March 10, 1985 8JAD-2009-0003-107AInterview with Rosetta Reitz, Part 1, March 8, 1991 JAD-2009-0003-107BInterview with Rosetta Reitz, Part 2, March 8, 1991 9JAD-2009-0003-108ASweethearts Meeting, Part 1 JAD-2009-0003-108BSweethearts Meeting, Part 2 JAD-2009-0003-109AVoice of America, Bessie Centennial, April 8, 1994 DVD Use Copies of LP covers and liner notes

LP covers were scanned for RR1300-RR1317, while cassette covers were scanned for RR1318.

581ContentDigital copies of LP covers and liner notes VHS, 1984-2002 and undated

Consists primarily of recordings of musical performances from various television shows, compiled by Reitz as a part of her ongoing research into female jazz musicians. Interspersed throughout are a few commercially released videos, including in Box 24 Jazz Women on Video, produced by Rosetta Records in 1990, and two videos on the Piney Woods School--the home institution for the International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Original titles have been retained.

24Cotton Club Remembered: Oscar Peterson – Ella at Wolftrap Saying it with Jazz: Carmen, Etta Songs, etc Vaudeville Kit McClure Band: Live in Japan 1992 Josephine Baker Documentary Bessie Smith Doc, Women Film Pioneers, Carmen McRay Stormy Weather Mary Lou Williams: Music on My Mind and Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul Introduction to the Piney Woods Country Life School Say Amen Somebody That’s Dancing/Piney Woods Moms Mabley Radical Harmonies: Woodstock Meets Women’s Liberation (prod. Woman Vision, 2002). Jazz Women on Video, prod. Rosetta Records, 1990 (RRV 1320) [two copies, with a third, earlier production copy] 25Cairo with Ethel Waters, 1942 Rufus Jones, Louis and Maxine, Ethel with Ed Murrow, Cairo Bessie Smith, Nina Mae McKinney, Billie Holiday Women in Jazz Shows #37-39 Piano Blues, Scorcese [unlabeled] JVC Jazz Festival 1988 Brown Sugar, Parts 1 and 2 Rhapsody in Blue, Life of Gershwin, Jolson Singing Fool International Sweethearts of Rhythm Various Blues Ella bio, 2 hours Vaudeville Cabin in the Sky Last of the Blue Devils 26The Josephine Baker Story Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire film Great Singing Tradition The Divine One Dance The Roaring 20s, part 1 The Roaring 20s, part 2 Day at the Races: Ivie Anderson Sarah Bio, Billie Bio, Fats Bio Betty Carter, 1986; Ella, Essence, 1986 Brown Sugar #4 The Sound of Jazz Josephine Baker Many Faces of Lady Day, Aretha Dorothy Sarah Memorial 27Etta James, Sippie Wallace, Ella, Linda Hopkins, Leatta Galloway, Vi Redd Minnie the Moocher, Wynton Marsalis, Greta Schiller Stonewall Interview Jazz on a Summer’s Day Lena with Benny Carter, 1943 All Girl Bands, The Big Bands Ragtime, Madame CJ Walker Alberta Hunter Ethel Waters, Sippie Wallace, Jazz Dance, After Hours, Boswell Sisters Blues, Scorcese, Volume 1 Ella sings two songs on Ed Sullivan Show Nell Carter, Danny Barker Women Big Bands Carmen McRae, Live in Tokyo, 1986 28The Big Bands, prod. Wally Heider, Swingtime Video, Inc, 1984 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 101) Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 102) Louis Jordan and Friends, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 105) Nat King Cole Plus Mills Brothers and Delta Rhythm Boys, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 106) Bessie Smith and Friends, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 108) Harlem Harmonies, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 110) Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 115) Count Basie and Friends, Jazz Classics, 1986 (JCVC 109) Umatic Tapes, 1980-1981 and undated

Dubs of three interviews/performances from television shows.

29Blues is a Woman NBC, 1980; and Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues WNBC-TV, 1981 (two copies) Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues WNBC-TV, 1981 Blues is a Woman NBC, 1980 Sippie Wallace: interview and performance with her own band no date Sippie Wallace Segment, not for air WTVS, no date 16mm Film, 1929-1977 and undated 30F101: Mae Barnes and Three Whippets from Chicago and All that Jazz (3 minutes) F102: Ethel Waters, Am I Blue? F103: Sophisticated Gals; What Can the Matter Be – Nobody Makes a Pass at Me; I’m a Big Girl Now; Memphis Blues F104: Nicholas Young Brothers and Eunice Wilson F105: Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues with violence and racism removed (9 minutes) F106: Jammin the Blues, 2nd copy from negative; the good one; no static F107: Jammin the Blues, scratchy sound (10 minutes) F108: Nellie Lutcher, He’s a Real Gone Guy 1955 (3 minutes) F109: Lil Armstrong with Mae Barnes, Lil’s Boogie from Chicago and All that Jazz F110: International Sweethearts of Rhythm, That Man of Mine (3 minutes) F111: Tchaikovskiana; Dave Schooler and His 21 Swinghearts [poor condition; needs further attention] F112: Josephine Baker snippets (4 minutes) F113: Billie Holiday, Do You Know What it Means To Miss New Orleans? 1947 (4 ½ minutes) F114: Cuban Rhythms (Luba Melina in Cuban Pete; Jeri Sullivan in Rum and Coca Cola; The Lady in Red Go To See the Nutch Girl from Cuba) F115: Ina Ray Hutton (12 minutes) (Bugle Call Rag; Stardust; Organ Grinders Swing; Rita Rio, Sticks and Stones) F116: Martha Davis, Bippity, Bippitty Bop and Just Goodbye F117: Sally Gooding Mills Blue Rhythm Band, unlabelled and Love is the Thing (12 minutes) F118: Ida Cox, Kentucky Blues F119: Am I Blue? poor copy 31F120: Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues (16 minutes) F121: Alberta Hunter (16 ½ minutes) F122: Marian McPartland, Now’s the Time 1977 (10 minutes) F123: Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Cops Dance; Mae Barnes Dr. Jazz; Stormy Weather from A Bundle of Blues F124: Jazz Women on Film (Ivie Anderson, All God’s Children Got Rhythm; Dorothy Dandridge, Harlem Sandman; Helen Humes, I Cried for You; Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Lonesome Road; Maxine Sullivan, Some of These Days; Ethel Waters, Darkies Never Cry; International Sweethearts of Rhythm) F125: Mamie Smith, Jailhouse Blues 1929; Fats Waller and Ada Brown, That Ain’t Right; Sarah Vaughan, These Things I Offer You; Dorothy Donegan, 1945 F126: Billie Holiday with Louis Armstrong, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans and Blues are Brewin 1947 32F127: Rita Rio and Her Mistresses of Rhythm and Ada Leonard’s All-American Girl Orchestra F128: Jazz Women on Film (Billie Holiday, Symphony in Black 1934; Adelaide Hall, Creole Love Call 1932; Valaida Snow, If You Only Knew 1946; Dolly Jones, Swing 1937; Valaida Snow, Patience and Fortitude; Nellie Lutcher, He’s a Real Gone Guy 1955) F129: Velma Middleton; and Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears F133: Nina Mae McKinney, Everything I’ve Got Belongs To You; Ethel Waters, Am I Blue and Underneath the Harlem Moon; Ida Cox, Woman’s No Fool; Billie Holiday, God Bless the Child and Now Baby or Never 33F130: Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues F131: Chicago and All That Jazz 34F132: Shouters and Wailers (Ethel Waters, Am I Blue and Birmingham Bertha 1929; Nina Mae McKinney, Sewannee Shuffle; Dinah Washington, What a Difference a Day Makes; Lena Horne, Boogie Woogie Dream 1941; Peggy Lee, Why Don’t You Do Right? 1943; Ella Fitzgerald, Satin Doll; Billie Holiday, Fine and Mellow 1957) Reference Materials Series 1946-2005 (23 boxes)

Contains the resources that Reitz compiled and referenced as a part of her ongoing research and writing. While most of the material relates to her interests in female jazz and blues musicians, some encompasses her interests in feminism more broadly and a lesser portion relates to her interests in food.

Music Research Files

Reference materials--primarily newspaper clippings--compiled by Reitz and arranged alphabetically by musician's last name or subject heading.

35Akiyoshi, Toshiko Alive! Allen, Geri Anderson, Ernestine Anderson, Ivy Anderson, Marian Armatrading, Joan Armstrong, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Louis Austin, Lovie Badu, Erykah Bailey, Mildred Baker, Josephine Baker, La Vern Barker, Louise Blue Lou Barrett, Sweet Emma Basie, Count Bearden, Romare Benjamin, Sathima Bea Black and Blue Broadway Review Black Broadway Musical Blackman, Cindy Blake, Eubie Bloom, Jane Ira Blues In The Night Musical Bofill, Angela Boswell Sisters Bougainvillea Bown, Patti Brooks, Hadda Brown, Cleo Brown, Ruth Bryant, Beulah Bryant, Clora Buggs, Marie Butterbeans and Susie (Susie Edwards) Calloway, Blanche Carlisle, Una Mae Carmichael, Judy Carpenter, Thelma Carter, Betty Carter, Nell Cheatham, Jeannie Clooney Rosemary Coquettes, the Cron, Roz Davis, Martha Dillard, Kathy Dixie Belles, the Dixon, Lucille Donegan, Dorothy Donnas, the Dranes, Arizona Dufty, Bill Duncan, Amy Etting, Ruth Europe, James Reese Fairfax, Joan (orchestra) Fields, Dorothy 36Fitzgerald, Ella Flanagan, Tommy Franklin, Aretha Franks, Rebecca Gibson, Althea Gilbert, Peggy (Dixie Bells) Gossett, Hattie Great Migration, The Hall, Adelaide Handy, W.C. Harlem Renaissance Henderson, Rosa Holiday, Billie Holley, Major Mule Holman, Libby Hopkins, Linda Horn, Shirley Horne, Lena Humes, Helen Hunter, Alberta Hutton, Ina Ray (and her Melodears) International Sweethearts of Rhythm Jacquet, Illinois James, Etta Johnson, J.C. Johnson, Lil Jones, Etta Jones, Rickie Lee Jordan, Sheila Kane, Helen Kirk, Dorthaan Koenigswarter, Baroness Pannonica de Lawrence, Carol Lee, Julia Lee, Peggy Lewis, Helen Lilith Fair Lincoln, Abbey Liston, Melba Lundy, Carmen Lutcher, Nellie Mabley, Jackie Moms Maiden Voyage Maria, Tania Massé, Laurel McKinney, Nina Mae McPartland, Marian 37McRae, Carmen McShann, Jay Memphis Minnie (Lizzie Douglas) Mercer, Mabel Merrill, Helen Midler, Bette Monk, Thelonious Muldaur, Maria Murphy, Rose Narita, Cobi (Universal Jazz Coalition) O'Day, Anita Odetta Osborne, Mary Parker, Gloria Pfister Sisters Phillips, Esther Pierce, Billie Piney Woods School Queen Ida Queen Latifa Ragtime Revival Rainey, Ma Reaves-Phillips, Sandra Redd, Vi Reese, Della Remler, Emily Rhythm Queens Richmond, June Ronstadt, Linda Ross, Annie Saffire Schaap, Phil Scott, Hazel Scott, Shirley Sherman, Daryl Siegel, Janis Simone, Nina Small, Neva Smith, Bessie Smith, Carrie Smith, Ernie Smith, Mamie Snow, Valaida Spivey, Victoria Stone, Evelyn Stone, Jesse Streeter, Sarah 38Streisand, Barbra String Fever Sudler, Monnette Sullivan, Maxine Sweet Honey in the Rock Taliaferro, Bessie Benjamin Tanguay, Eva Taylor, Koko Tharpe, Sister Rosetta Theodore, Laura Thomas, Irma Thornton, Big Mama Tipton, Billy Tucker, Sophie Vaughan, Sarah Walker, C.J. Wallace, Sippie Washington, Dinah Waters, Ethel Webster, Katie West, Mae White, Georgia Wiley, Lee Williams, Mary Lou Wilson, Cassandra Wilson, Edith Wilson, John S. Wilson, Nancy Women in Jazz (general) Women's Jam Sessions Women's Jazz Festival Women's Philharmonic Wynters, Gail Yancey, Mama 39Reference Index Cards on Female Musicians

Handwritten index cards, generally containing an artist's name and one or two sentences of reference information on that artist.

Magazines and Journals

Primarily related to music but some related to food and feminist issues.

40Acoustic Guitar (January 1996) vol. 37 American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: a selected list (1985) American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: a selected list (1987) American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: a selected list (1988) American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: a selected list (1989) American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: a selected list (1991) American Heritage (November 1997) vol. 48 no. 7 American Legacy (Spring 2001) vol. 7 no. 1 And All That Jazz (December 1995) And All That Jazz (May 1996) And All That Jazz (June 1996) ASCAP (Summer 1998) ASCAP Playback (March/April 1996) vol. 3 no. 2 ASCAP Playback (October 1996) vol. 3 no. 4 ASCAP Playback (November/December 1995) vol. 2 no. 6 Augusta Heritage Center (1995) BE (Black Elegance) (June/July 1992) vol. 57 Black American Literature Forum (Winter 1983) vol. 16 no. 4 Il Blues (March 1984) vol. 6 Blues Access (Fall 1990) vol. 1 no. 3 Blues Access (Holiday 1992) vol. 12 Blues Access (Winter 1995) vol. 20 Blues Access (Spring 1995) vol. 21 Blues Access (Summer 1995) vol. 22 Blues Access (Fall 1995) vol. 23 Blues Access (Winter 1996) vol. 24 Blues Access (Winter 1997) vol. 28 The Blues and Rhythm Jubilee (December 1983) vol. 12 no. 13 The Blues and Rhythm Jubilee (June 1984) vol. 14 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (April 1985) vol. 8 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (September 1985) vol. 12 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (May 1986) vol. 19 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (June 1986) vol. 20 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (July 1996) vol. 21 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (September 1986) vol. 23 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (October 1986) vol. 23 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (November 1986) vol. 24 Blues and Rhythm: the Gospel Truth (December 1986) vol. 25 Blues at the Foundation (Spring/Summer 1996) Blues at the Foundation (Winter 1996) Blues Forum (Quartal 1982) vol. 6 no. 2 Blues Letter (July/Aug. 1990) vol. 11 Blues Letter (September/October 1990) vol. 12 Blues Life (1981) vol. 14 Blues News (January 1996) vol. 9 no. 1 Blues News (March 1995) vol. 8 no. 2 Blues News (May 1995) vol. 8 no. 3 Blues News (July 1995) vol. 8 no. 4 Blues News (November 1994) vol. 7 no. 6 Blues News (November 1995) vol. 8 no. 6 41Blues To-Do's (November 1994) vol. 2 no. 11 Blues To-Do's (March 1995) vol. 3 no. 3 Blues To-Do's (April 1995) vol. 3 no. 4 Blues To-Do's (May 1995) vol. 3 no. 5 Blues To-Do's (June 1995) vol. 3 no. 6 Blues To-Do's (October 1995) vol. 3 no. 10 Blues To-Do's (November 1995) vol. 3 no. 11 Blues To-Do's (December 1995) vol. 3 no. 12 Blues To-Do's (February 1996) vol. 4 no. 2 Blues To-Do's (March 1996) vol. 4 no. 3 Blues To-Do's (April 1996) vol. 4 no. 4 Blues To-Do's (May 1996) vol. 4 no. 5 Blues To-Do's (July 1996) vol. 4 no. 7 Blues To-Do's (August 1996) vol. 4 no. 8 Blues To-Do's (September 1996) vol. 4 no. 9 Blues To-Do's (October 1996) vol. 4 no. 10 Blues To-Do's (November 1996) vol. 4 no. 11 Blues To-Do's (December 1996) vol. 4 no. 12 Blues To-Do's (January 1997) vol. 5 no. 1 Blues To-Do's (February 1997) vol. 5 no. 2 Blues To-Do's (March 1997) vol. 5 no. 3 Blues To-Do's (May 1997) vol. 5 no. 5 Blues To-Do's (January 1998) vol. 6 no. 1 Broomstick (May/June 1986) vol. 8 no. 3 Broomstick (May/July 1985) vol. 7 no. 3, 4 Cadence (May 1986) vol. 12 no. 5 Cadence (December 1990) vol. 16 no. 12 Centerpoint (Fall/Spring 1980) vol. 3 no. 3, 4 Coda (August 1973) vol. 11 no. 2 Coda (April 1980) vol. 174 Coda (June 1983) vol. 190 Coda (February/March 1987) vol. 212 Coda (April/May 1987) vol. 213 Coda (June/July 1987) vol. 214 Coda (August/September 1987) vol. 215 Coda (April/May 1988) vol. 219 Coda (October/November 1988) vol. 222 Coda (February 1979) vol. 164, 165 Conditions (1979) vol. 5 CRC Jazz Journal (September-December 1987) vol. 8 no. 4 Daedelus Music (Winter 2002) Daedelus Music (Fall 2003) Daedelus Music (Winter 2003) Daedelus Music (Winter 2004) Daybreak M.O. (Summer 1994) Different Drummer (January 1974) vol. 1 no. 4 The Dippermouth News (Fall 1999) vol. 1 no. 1 Double Time Jazz (Spring 96) Double Time Jazz (Summer 96) Double Time Jazz (n/a) Down Beat (November 1973) vol. 40 no. 19 Down Beat (December 1989) vol. 56 no. 12 Down Beat (February 1990) vol. 57 no. 2 Down Beat (June 1990) vol. 57 no. 6 Down Beat (July 1990) vol. 57 no. 7 Film Hits (February 1996) Film Hits (April 1996) Freedomways (Fall 1985) Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (January 1993) vol. 8 no. 2 Fuse (Fall 1985) vol. 9 no. 3 The Green Mountain Jazz Messenger (April/May 1998) vol. 1 no. 5 Harlem Youth Report (June 1964) vol. 5 42Helicon Nine (1985) vol. 17, 18 Helicon Nine (1987) vol. 12, 13 Helicon Nine (1988) vol. 19 Helicon Nine (1989) vol. 20 Heresies (1980) vol. 10 Hot Club de France (June 1985) vol. 3 no. 328 Hot Wire (March 1985) vol. 1 no. 2 Hot Wire (September 1989) vol. 5 no. 3 Hot Wire (September 1990) vol. 6 no. 3 Hot Wire (January 1991) vol. 7 no. 1 Hot Wire (May 1991) vol. 7 no. 2 Hot Wire (January 1992) vol. 8 no. 1 Hot Wire (May 1992) vol. 8 no. 2 Hot Wire (September 1992) vol. 8 no. 3 Hot Wire (May 1993) vol. 9 no. 2 Hot Wire (May 1994) vol. 10 no. 2 Inside Arts (September 1991) vol. 3 no. 3 Jan Scobey's Hot Jazz (1995) Jan Scobey's Hot Jazz (1996) Jan Scobey's Hot Jazz (2000) Jazz (July 1996) vol. 1 no. 10 Jazz (August 1996) vol. 1 no. 11 Jazz (September 1996) vol. 1 no. 12 Jazz (October 1996) vol. 2 no. 1 Jazz (March 1999) vol. 4 no. 4 Jazz Beat (August 1989) vol. 1 no. 1 Jazz Forum (May 1988) vol. 114 Jazz Journal (November 1975) vol. 28 no. 11 Jazz Journal (December 1955) vol. 8 no. 12 Jazz Magazine (Spring 1978) vol. 2 no. 3 Jazz Magazine (Fall 1979) vol. 3 no. 4 Jazz Magazine (Fr.) (January 1983) vol. 314 Jazz Magazine (Fr.) (March 1983) vol. 316 Jazz Magazine (Fr.) (November 1983) vol. 323 43Jazz News (May/June 1988) vol. 2 no. 2 Jazz News (September/October 1988) vol. 2 no. 4 Jazz Newsletter (December 1994) vol. 6 Jazz Notes (2001) vol. 12 no. 1 Jazz NU (March 1983) vol. 53 The Jazz Report (Fall 1991) vol. 5 no. 1 The Jazz Report (Spring 1991) vol. 5 no. 3 The Jazz Report (Summer 1991) vol. 5 no. 4 The Jazz Report (Fall 1992) vol. 6 no. 1 The Jazz Report (Fall 1993) vol. 7 no. 1 The Jazz Report (Winter 1993) vol. 7 no. 2 The Jazz Report (Spring 1993) vol. 7 no. 3 The Jazz Report (Summer 1993) vol. 7 no. 4 The Jazz Report (Fall 1994) vol. 8 no. 1 The Jazz Report (Summer 1994) vol. 8 no. 4 The Jazz Report (Fall 1995) vol. 9 no. 1 The Jazz Report (Winter 1995) vol. 9 no. 2 The Jazz Report (Spring 1995) vol. 9 no. 3 The Jazz Report (Summer 1995) vol. 9 no. 4 The Jazz Review (January 1959) vol. 2 no. 1 The Jazz Review (September 1991) Jazz Times (February 1994) vol. 24 no. 1 Jazz Times (March 1990) Jefferson (1987) vol. 76 Journal of Jazz Studies (Fall/Winter 1979) vol. 6 no. 1 Juke Blues (October 1985) vol. 2 Juke Blues (Spring 1986) vol. 4 Juke Blues (Autumn 1986) vol. 6 Juke Blues (Winter 1986) vol. 7 Juke Blues (Summer 1987) vol. 9 Juke Blues (Summer 1989) vol. 16 Living Blues (May/June 1977) vol. 32 Living Blues (Summer 1979) vol. 43 Living Blues (Winter 1982) vol. 55 Living Blues (Spring 1983) vol. 56 Living Blues (Autumn 1983) vol. 57 Living Blues (Winter 1983) vol. 58 Living Blues (Spring 1984) vol. 59 Living Blues (March-April 1985) vol. 64 Living Blues (October 1994) vol. 117 Living Blues (Summer/Fall 1984) vol. 60, 61 Masters of the Steel String Guitar (Spring 1990) Menopause (June 1980) vol. 3 Metronome (August 1961) vol. 78 no. 8 The Mississippi Rag (May 1985) The Mississippi Rag (December 1984) The Mississippi Rag (December 1991) The Piano Stylist (April/May 1992) vol. 7 no. 2 Music and Sound Output (December 1988) vol. 9 no. 1 44New Directions for Women (March/April 1993) vol. 22 no. 2 New Directions for Women (July/August) vol. 17 no. 4 The New Yorker (January 1995) New Women's Times (May 1980) vol. 6 no. 10 Newport Jazz Festival (1955) cover separated Newport Jazz Festival (1959) Newport Jazz Festival (1980) Newport Jazz Festival (1981) NJSO Journal (1994) vol. 5 no. 1 NJSO Journal (Fall 1990) vol. 1 no. 4 Nonviolent Activist (July/August 2003) vol. 20 no. 4 Note 4 Note (Summer 1997) vol. 26 Now News (Spring/Summer 2002) vol. 29 no. 3 Outlook (spring 1988) vol. 1 no. 1 Past Times (Summer 1990) vol. 1 no. 1 Playback (January/February 2001) vol. 8 no. 1 The Piano Stylist (April/May 1992) vol. 7 no. 2 Popular (June 2001) Popular (July 2001) Popular (August 2001) Popular (September 2001) Radical Teacher (March 1977) vol. 4 Rap Sheet (September 1994) vol. 2 no. 9 Rap Sheet (December 1994) vol. 2 no. 12 45Record Research (November/December 1958) vol. 20 Record Research (October 1961) vol. 38 Record Research (October 1965) vol. 71 Record Research (November 1965) vol. 72 Record Research (January 1966) vol. 73 Record Research (March 1966) vol. 74 Record Research (June 1966) vol. 77 Record Research (August 1966) vol. 78 Record Research (October 1966) vol. 79 Record Research (November 1966) vol. 80 Record Research (January 1967) vol. 81 Record Research (March 1967) vol. 82 Record Research (April 1967) vol. 83 Record Research (June 1967) vol. 84 Record Research (August 1967) vol. 85 Record Research (December 1967) vol. 87 Record Research (January 1968) vol. 88 Record Research (March 1968) vol. 89 Record Research (May 1968) vol. 90 Record Research (July 1968) vol. 91 Record Research (September 1968) vol. 92 Record Research (November 1968) vol. 93 Record Research (December 1968) vol. 94 Record Research (April 1969) vol. 96, 97 Record Research (May 1969) vol. 98 Record Research (July 1969) vol. 99 Record Research (August 1969) vol. 100 Record Research (October 1969) vol. 101 Record Research (January 1970) vol. 103 Record Research (March 1970) vol. 104 Record Research (May 1970) vol. 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It Like It Is (Summer 1997) vol. 1 no. 13 True Blues (July 1996) vol. 1 no. 1 Unlimited Blues (January/February 1977) vol. 123 Voices of Women (1985) Westcoast Blues Review (June/July 1995) vol. 11 Westcoast Blues Review (August/September 1995) vol. 12 The Wire (December 1984) vol. 10 The Wire (April 1985) vol. 14 The Wire (May 1985) vol. 15 The Wire (June 1985) vol. 16 The Wire (July 1985) vol. 17 Women in (E)Motion (September 1988) vol. 14 Women: A Journal of Liberation (Spring 1970) vol. 1 no. 3 Books

Primarily related to music but some related to food and feminist issues. Includes the following books authored by Reitz: Mushroom Cookery (1965), Where to go in Greenwich Village (1971), and Menopause: a positive approach (1977) with Dutch and German translations.

48Adegbalola, Gaye; Rabson, Ann. Saffire- the uppity blues women: songbook volume 2. Oberlin, Oh. : E and R Music Engravers, 1995. Alberston, Chris. Bessie. New York : Stein and Day, 1972.

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Alberston, Chris. Louis Armstrong. Alexandria, Vir. : Time-Life Records, 1978. Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only yesterday: an informal history of the 1920's. New York : Harper and Row, 1964.

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Allen, Walter C.; Rust, Brain A .L. King Joe Oliver. Belleville, N.J. : Walter C. Allen, 1955. Applebaum, Stanely; Camner, James. (ed.) Stars of the American musical theater in historic photographs: 361 protraits from the 1860's to 1950. New York : Dover, 1981. Archer, Robyn; Simmonds, Diana. A star is torn. London : Virago, 1986. Baker, Houston A. Black literature in America. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1971. Balliett, Whitney. American singers. New York : Oxford, 1979. Balliett, Whitney. New York notes: a journal of jazz, 1972-1975. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Bechet, Sidney. Treat it gentle: an autobiography. New York : Da Capo, 1978.

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Bell, Roseann P.; Parker, Bettye J.; Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. Sturdy black bridges: visions of black women in literature. Garden City, N.Y. ; Anchor Books, 1979. Berendt, Joachim. The new jazz book: a history and guide. New York : Hill and Wang, 1962. Bernhardt, Clyde E. B.; Harris, Sheldon. I remember: eighty years of black entertainment, big bands, and the blues. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Berry, Faith. Langston Hughes: before and beyond Harlem. Westport, Conn. : Lawrence Hill, 1983.

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Blesh, Rudi. Shining trumpets: a history of jazz. New York : Da Capo, 1946.

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Blesh, Rudi; Janis, Harriet. They all played ragtime. New York : Oak, 1971.

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Boeckman, Charles. Cool, hot and blue: a history of jazz for young people. New York : Washington Square Press, 1970.

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Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks: an interpretive history of blacks in American films. New York : Bantam, 1974.

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Bogle, Donald. Brown sugar: eighty years of America’s black female superstars. New York : Harmony Books, 1980.

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Bowers, Dwight Blocker. American musical theater: shows, songs, and stars. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, 1989. Bradford, Perry. Born with the blues: Perry Bradford’s own story. New York : Oak, 1965.

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Breman, Paul. Blues: en andere wereldlijke volksmuziek van denoorddamerikaanse neger. Servire, 1961. 49Bricktop; Haskins, James. Bricktop. New York : Atheneum, 1983. Buckley, Gail Lumet. The Hornes: an American family. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

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Buerkle, Jack V.; Barker, Danny. Bourbon Street Black: the New Orleans black jazzman. New York : Oxford, 1973. Case, Brian; Britt, Stan. The illustrated encyclopedia of jazz. New York : Harmony Books, 1978. Cerulli, Dom; Korall, Burt; Nasatir, Mort. The jazz word. New York : Ballantine Books, 1960. Charters, Samuel B.; Kunstadt, Leonard. Jazz: a history of the New York scene. New York : Da Capo, 1981.

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Charters, Samuel. The poetry of blues. New York : Avon Books, 1963.

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Charters, Samuel. The poetry of the blues. New York : Oak, 1963.

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Charters, Samuel. Walking a blues road: a selection of blues writing 1956-2004. New York ; London : Marion Boyars, 2004.

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Chilton, John. Billie's blues: Billie Holliday's story 1933-1959. New York : Stein and Day, 1975.

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Chilton, John. Who's who of jazz: Storyville to Swing Street. Philadelphia ; New York ; London : Chilton Books, 1970.

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Chilton, John. Jazz. Teach yourself series. Sevenoaks, Eng. : Hodder and Stoughton, 1979. Chilton, John. Sidney Bechet: the wizard of jazz. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. Clarke, Donald. Wishing of the moon: the life and times of Billie Holiday. New York : Viking, 1994.

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Colin, Sid. Ella: the life and times of Ella Fitzgerald. London : Elm Tree Books, 1986.

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Collier, James Lincoln. Louis Armstrong: an American genius. New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.

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Collier, James Lincoln. The great jazz artists. New York : Four Winds Press, 1977. Cook, Bruce. Listen to the blues. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973. 50Cooper, Ralph; Dougherty, Steve. Amateur night at the Apollo: Ralph Cooper presents five decades of entertainment. New York : HarperCollins, 1990. Costlow, Judy; Lopez, Maria Cristina; Taub, Mara. Menopause: a self-care manual. Santa Fe, N.M. : Santa Fe Health Education Project, 1989. Count Basie; Murray, Albert (ed.). Good morning blues: the autobiography of Count Basie. New York : Primus, 1985.

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Cripps, Thomas. Slow fade to black: the negro in American film, 1900-1942. London ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford Uiversity Press, 1977.

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Dahl, Linda. Stormy weather: the music and lives of a century of jazzwomen. New York : Pantheon, 1984. Dance, Stanley. The world of Earl Hines. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977.

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Dance, Stanley. The world of Count Basie. New York : Da Capo, 1980. Davis, Angela Y. Blues legacies and black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York : Pantheon, 1998.

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Day, Beth. The little professor of Piney Woods: the story of professor Laurence Jones. New York : Julian Messner, 1955. Dexter, Dave. The jazz story from the '90's to the '60's. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1964. Driggs, Frank; Lewine, Harris. Black beauty, white heat: a pictorial history of classic jazz 1920-1950. New York : William Morrow, 1982.

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Eells, George; Musgrove, Stanley. Mae West. London : Robson Books, 1984.

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Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and act. New York : Vintage, 1972.

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Feather, Leonard. The book of jazz: from then till now. New York : Dell, 1976.

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Feather, Leonard. The book of jazz: from then till now. New York : Bonanza Books, 1962.

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Ferris, William. Blues from the Delta. New York : Doubleday, 1978. Fox, Charles. The jazz scene. London ; New York : Hamlyn, 1972. Fox, Ted. Showtime at the Apollo. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.

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51Francis, Andre. Jazz. New York ; London : Grove Press, 1960. Friedwald, Will. Jazz Singing: America's great voices from Bessie Smith to bebop and beyond. New York : Collier Books, 1990.

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Gammond, Peter. Scott Joplin and the ragtime era. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1975. Garland, Phyl. The sound of Soul. New York : Pocket Books, 1971. Garon, Paul and Beth. Woman with guitar: Memphis Minnie’s blues. New York : Da Capo, 1992. Garon, Paul. Blues and the Poetic Spirit. London ; Eddison Press, 1975. Giddins, Gary. Riding on a blue note: jazz and American pop. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981. Gleason, Ralph J. Celebrating the Duke: and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and other heroes. Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown, 1975. Goddard, Chris. Jazz away from home. New York : Paddington, 1979. Godrich, John; Dixon, Robert M.W. (comp.) Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942. London : Storyville, 1969.

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Gottlieb, William P. The golden age of jazz. New York : Da Capo, 1979.

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Gourse, Leslie. Louis' Children: American jazz singers. New York : Quill, 1984. Hadlock, Richard. Jazz masters of the twenties. New York : Collier Books, 1965.

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Hammond, John. John Hammond on record: an autobiography with Irvin Townsend. New York : Summit Books, 1977

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Handy, D. Antoinette. Black women in American bands and orchestras. Metuchen, N.J. ; London : Scarecrow Press, 1981.

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Haney, Lynn. Naked at the feast: a biography of Josephine Baker. New York : Dodd, mead and Company, 1981.

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Harris, Rex. Jazz. Melbourne ; London ; Baltimore : Penguin, 1953.

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52Harris, Sheldon. Blues who’s who: a biographical dictionary of blues singers. New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, 1979.

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Harrison, Max. Charlie Parker. Perpetua “kings of jazz” series. New York : A. S. Barnes, 1960. Haskins, Jim. Queen of the blues: a biography of Dinah Washington. New York : William Morrow and Company, 1987.

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Haskins, Jim. The cotton club. New York : Random House, 1977.

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Hasse, John Edward. Beyond category: the life and genius of Duke Ellington. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1993. Hentoff, Nat. Jazz is. New York : Avon Books, 1978. Hester, Mary Lee. Going to Kansas City. Sherman, Tex. : Early Bird, 1980. Himes, Chester. A rage in Harlem. New York : Avon Books, 1965. Hodeir, Andre. Jazz: its evolution and essence. New York : Grove Press, 1956.

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Holiday, Billie; Dufty, William. Lady sings the blues. New York : Lancer, 1956.

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Howard, John Tasker; Lyons, James. MusModernic: a popular guide to greater musical enjoyment. New York : The New American Library, 1957.

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Huggins, Nathaniel Irvin. Harlem Renaissance. London ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971.

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Hughes, Langston. Not without laughter. New York : Collier Books, 1969. Hughes, Langston; Meltzer, Milton. Black magic: a pictorial history of black entertainers in America. New York : Bonanza, 1967.

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Ingham, Chris. Billie Holiday. Divas series. London : Unanimous, 2000.

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James, Etta; Ritz, David. Rage to survive: the Etta James story. New York : Villard, 1995. 53Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1965. vol. 1. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1966.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1965. vol. 2. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1966.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1967. vol. 4a. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1968.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1968. vol. 4c. Copenhagen, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1970.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1969. vol. 4d. Copenhagen, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1970.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1967. vol. 4b. Copenhagen, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1969.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1962. vol. 5. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1963.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1962. vol. 8. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1965.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1962. vol. 7. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1964.

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Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1965. vol. 3. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1967. Jepsen. Jorgen Grunnet. (ed.) Jazz Records: 1942-1962. vol. 6. Holte, Denmark : Karl Emil Knudsen, 1963. Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. New York : Atheneum, 1977.

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Johnson, James Weldon. God's trombones: seven negroes in verse. Middlesex, Eng. : Penguin, 1976. Jones, Hettie. Big star fallin' mama: five women in black music. New York : Viking Press, 1974.

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Jones, LeRoi. Blues people: negro music in white America. New York : William Morrow, 1963.

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Jones, Max; Chilton, John. Louis: the Louis Armstrong story 1900-1971. Boston ; Toronto : Little, Brown, 1971.

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Kay, George W. Those fabuolous Gennetts!: the life story of a remarkable record label. New Orleans : New Orleans Jazz Museum, 1953. Keepnews, Orin; Grauer, Bill. (comp.) A pictorial history of jazz: people and places form New Orleans to modern jazz. New York : Crown, 1966. Keil, Charles. Urban blues. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 1966.

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Kimball, Robert; Bolcom, William. Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake. New York : Viking, 1973.

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Kinkle, Roger. The complete encyclopedia of popular and jazz music 1900-1950. vol. 1 New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, 1974.

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54Kislan, Richard. The Musical: a look at the American musical theater. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1980. Lerner, Gerda. (ed.) Black women in white America: a documentary history. New York : Vintage, 1972. Levine, Lawrence. Black culture and black consciousness: Afro-American folk thought from slavery to freedom. Oxford ; London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.

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Lieb, Sandra. Mother of the blues: a study of Ma Rainey. The University of Massechussetts Press, 1981.

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Lomax, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll: the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “inventor of jazz.” New York : Grove, 1950. Machlin, Milt. Libby. New York : Tower Books, 1980. Maddocks, Melvin. Giants of jazz: Billie Holiday. Alexandria, Vir. : Time-Life Records, 1979. McCarthy, Albert. Big band jazz. New York : Berkley, 1974. Meeker, David. Jazz in the movies: a guide to jazz musicians 1917-1977. New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House, 1977.

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Meier, August; Rudwick, Elliott. From plantation to ghetto. American century series. New York : Hill and Wang, 1966. Mellers, Wilfrid. Music in a new found land: themes and developments in the history of American music. New York : Hillstone, 1964. Mezzrow, Milton "Mezz"; Wolfe, Bernard. Really the blues. New York : Dell, 1946.

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Mills, Earl. Dorothy Daindridge: a portrait in black. Los Angeles : Holloway House, 1970. Moore, Carman. Somebody's angel child : the story of Bessie Smith. New York : Dell, 1969.

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Morgenstern, Dan. An Outline History of Jazz: The Jazz Story. New York : N.Y. Jazz Museum, 1973. Morris, James R.; Taylor, J. R.; Bowers, Dwight Blocker (comp.). Six decades of songwriters and singers. American popular song series. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Collection of Recordings, 1984. Myrus, Donald. Ballads, blues, and the big beat. New York : Macmillan, 1966. New York Recording Laboratories (comp). The paramount book of blues. Port Washington, Wis. : New York Recording Laboratories. Nicholson, Stuart. Billie Holliday. Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1995. Oakely, Giles. The devil's music: a history of the blues. New York ; London : Harvest/ HBJ Book, 1976.

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55Oliver, Paul. The Blackwell guide to recorded blues. Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1991.

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Oliver, Paul. Kings of jazz: Bessie Smith. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1959.

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Oliver, Paul. The story of the blues. Radnor, Pa. : Chilton Book Co., 1969.

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Oliver, Paul. The meaning of the blues. New York : Collier Books, 1960. Ostransky, Leroy. Jazz city: the impact of our cities on the development of jazz. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1978. Panassié, Hugues; Gautier, Madeleine. Guide to jazz. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

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Pannassie, Hugues. Louis Armstrong. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971.

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Parks, Gordon. A choice of weapons. New York : Berkely Publishing Corporation, 1966. Pavletich, Aida. Rock-a-bye, baby. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday and Company, 1980. Pearson, Barry Lee. Sounds good to me: the bluesman's story. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Placksin, Sally. American women in jazz, 1900 to the present: their words, lives, and music. [S. l.] : Wideview, 1982.

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Pleasants, Henry. The great American popular singers. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1974.

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Poling, James. Esquire's world of jazz. New York : Esquire, 1962. Rampersad, Arnold. The life of Langston Hughes, Volume II: 1941-1967: I dream a world. New York : Oxford, 1988. Ramsey, Frederic; Smith, Charles Edward. (eds.) Jazzmen. London ; New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967.

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Reisner, Robert George. (comp.) The literature of jazz: a preliminary bibliography. New York : The New York Public Library, 1954. Reitz, Rosetta. Menopause: a positive approach. Radnor, Penn. : Chilton Book Co., 1977. Reitz, Rosetta. Menopause: a positive approach. New York : Penguin, 1979. Reitz, Rosetta. Ouder worden voor beginners: vrouwen over de overgang, liefde en seksualiteit. (Menopause: a positive approach). Amsterdam : Feministische Uitgeverij Sara, 1985. Reitz, Rosetta. Wechseljahre: ermutigung zu einem neuen verstandnis. (Menopause: a positive approach). Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1990. Reitz, Rosetta. Mushroom Cookery. New York : Grammercy Publishing, 1965. Reitz, Rosetta; Geisler, Joan. Where to go in Greenwich Village. Published by the authors, 1971.

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56Rich, Alan. The Simon and Schuster listener's guide to jazz. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1980. Roberts, John Storm. Black music for two worlds. New York : William Morrow and Company, 1974.

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Rose, Al. Eubie Blake. New York : Schirmer, 1979. Rudwick, Bracey Meier. Black matriarchy: myth or reality? Belmont : Wadsworth, 1971. Russell, Ross. Jazz style in Kansas City and the Southwest. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, 1971.

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Sackheim, Eric. (comp.) The blues line: a collection of blues lyrics. New York : Schirmer Books, 1969.

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Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in blackface: a source book on early black musical shows. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow, 1980.

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Sanchez, Sister Sonia. A blues book for blue black magical women. Detroit : Broadside Press, 1974.

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Santelli, Robert. The big book of blues: a biographical encyclopedia. London : Penguin, 1993.

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Schiedt, Duncan. The jazz state of Indiana. Pittsboro, Ind. : Duncan P. Schiedt, 1977.

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Schiffman, Jack. Uptown: the story of Harlem’s Apollo Theatre. New York : Cowles, 1971.

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Schiffman, Jack. Harlem Heyday: a pictorial history of modern black show business and Apollo Theatre. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1984.

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Schuller, Gunther. The swing era: the development of jazz 1930-1945. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989. Shapiro, Nat; Hentof, Natt. (eds.) Hear me talkin' to ya: the story of jazz as told by the men who made it. New York : Dover, 1955.

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Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and shouters: the golden years of rhythm and blues. New York : Collier, 1978.

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Shefter, Bert. (comp. and ed.) Hazel Scott easy-to-play boogie-woogie. (instructional song book) New York : Robbins Music, 1944. Short, Bobby. Black and white baby. New York : Curtis, 1971.

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Sidran, Ben. Black talk. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Simon, George T. The big bands. New York : Collier, 1967.

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57Smith, Bessie; Albertson, Chris (comp.). Bessie Smith: empress of the blues. New York : Schirmer, 1975.

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Smith, Willie the Lion; Hoefer, George. Music on my mind: the memoirs of an American pianist. New York : Da Capo, 1964.

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Stearns, Marshall W. The story of jazz. London ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1956. Stewart, Charles; Harrison, Paul Carter. Chuck Stewart’s jazz files. Boston : Little Brown, 1985. Stewart-Baxter, Derrick. Ma Rainey and the classic blues singers. New York : Stein and Day, 1970.

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Stoddard, Tom. Pops Foster: the autobiography of a New Orleans jazzman. Berkely ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, 1971. The story of the saxophone: its history and its uses. Elkhart, Ind : Buescher Band Instrument Co, 1923.

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Taylor, Billy. Jazz piano: a jazz history. Dubuque, Iow. : Wm. C. Brown Company, 1982, 1983. Toll, Robert C. Blacking up: the minstrel show in Nineteenth-Century America. London ; New York : Oxford, 1974. Traill, Sinclair; Lascelles, Gerald. Just jazz: three. London : Landsborough Publications, 1959.

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Trolle, Frank H. James P. Johnson: father of the stride piano, part two. (discography) Alphen aan de Rijn, the Netherlands : Micrography, 1981.

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Tuska, Jon. The films of Mae West. Secaucus, N.J. : The Citadel Press, 1973. Unterbink, Mary. Jazz Women at the Keyboard. Jefferson, N.C. ; London : Mcfarland, 1983.

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Wald, Elijah. Global Minstrels: voices of world music. New York ; London : Routledge, 2007.

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Wald, Elijah. Escaping the delta: Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues. New York : Amistad, 2004.

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Waters, Ethel. To me it’s wonderful. New York : Harper and Row, 1972.

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Williams, Martin. Kings of Jazz: King Oliver. New York : A.S. Barnes, 1960.

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Williams, Martin. Where's the melody?: a listener's introduction to jazz. Minerva Press, 1963. Williams, Martin. Jazz heritage. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1985. Williams, Martin. (ed.) Jazz panorama: from the pages of Jazz Review. New York : Collier Books, 1964.

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