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The 1950s

Altschuler, Glenn C. All Shook up: How Rock “n” Roll Changed America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Boyer, Paul S. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon, 1985.
Breines, Wini. “The 1950s: Gender and Some Social Science.” Sociological Inquiry 56, no. 1 (January 1, 1986): 69–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.1986.tb00076.x.
Breines, Wini. Young, White, and Miserable: Growing up Female in the Fifties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Brown, Valerie Jane. “Turnabout Is Fair Play: The Censorship of Popular Music in the 1950s.” M.S., University of Oregon, 1991.
Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Daniel, Pete. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C, 2000.
Doherty, Thomas Patrick, and Thomas Patrick Doherty. Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988.
Dunar, Andrew J. America in the Fifties. America in the Twentieth Century. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Ennis, Philip H. The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992.
Foreman, Joel. The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Random House, 1993.
Harvey, Brett. The Fifties: A Woman’s Oral History. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
50s: All-American Ads. Köln: Taschen, 2002.
Helander, Brock. The Rockin’ ’50s: The People Who Made the Music. London: Omnibus, 2001.
Helper, Laura. “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going on: An Ethnography of Race Relations and Crossover Audiences for Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll in 1950s Memphis.” Ph.D., Rice University, 1997.
Horn, Richard. Fifties Style, Then and Now. New York: Beech Tree Books, 1985.
Lange, Jeffrey J. Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music’s Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Lhamon, W. T. Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s: With a New Preface. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic Books, 2008.
Medovoi, Leerom. Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2005.
Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960. Critical Perspectives on the Past. Phliadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Miller, Douglas T., and Marion Nowak. The Fifties: The Way We Really Were. New York: Doubleday, 1977.
Nadel, Alan. Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
Pidgeon, John. “Venus: The Role Of Women In Fifties Music.” In The History of Rock. Rock’s Backpages, 1981.
Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
Shaw, Arnold. The Rockin’ ’50s: The Decade That Transformed the Pop Music Scene. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974.
Wierzbicki, James Eugene. Music in the Age of Anxiety: American Music in the Fifties. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Young, William H., and Nancy K. Young. The 1950s. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.
Zak, Albin. I Don’t Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

Rock and Roll

Altschuler, Glenn C. All Shook up: How Rock “n” Roll Changed America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Bertrand, Michael T. Race, Rock, and Elvis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Brittan, Francesca. “Women Who ‘Do Elvis’: Authenticity, Masculinity, and Masquerade.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 18, no. 2 (2006): 167–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-1598.2006.00087.x.
Brown, Valerie Jane. “Turnabout Is Fair Play: The Censorship of Popular Music in the 1950s.” M.S., University of Oregon, 1991.
Bufwack, Mary A., and Robert K. Oermann. Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000. Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation Press, 2003.
Coates, Norma J. “It’s a Man’s, Man’s World: Television and the Masculinization of Rock Discourse and Culture.” Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002.
Deffaa, Chip. Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Denisoff, R. Serge, and William D. Romanowski. Risky Business: Rock in Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1990.
Ennis, Philip H. The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992.
Fast, Susan. “‘Girls: Rock Your Boys!’ the Continuing Non-History of Women in Rock Music.” In History Herstory: Alternative Musikgeschichten., 154–72, 2008.
Gaar, Gillian G. She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll. New York: Seal Press, 2002.
Gillett, Charlie. The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll. Da Capo Press, 1996.
Greig, Charlotte. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: Girl Groups from the 50s On. London: Virago, 1989.
Hamilton, Jack. Just around Midnight. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
Haney, Wayne S. (Author), and B. Lee (Author) Cooper. Rockabilly: A Bibliographic Resource Guide. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990.
Harbinson, W.A. with Kay Wheeler. Growing Up with the Memphis Flash. Amsterdam: TuttiFruitti, 1994.
Helander, Brock. The Rockin’ ’50s: The People Who Made the Music. London: Omnibus, 2001.
Helper, Laura. “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going on: An Ethnography of Race Relations and Crossover Audiences for Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll in 1950s Memphis.” Ph.D., Rice University, 1997.
Hirshey, Gerri. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock. Grove Press, 2002.
Jackson, John A. American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock n Roll Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Jackson, John A. Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll. New York: Schirmer Books, 1991.
Jarman-Ivens, Freya. “‘Don’t Cry Daddy’: The Denegration of Elvis Presley’s Musical Masculinity.” In Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music, edited by Freya Jarman-Ivens. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Kheshti, Roshanak. “Musical Miscegenation and the Logic of Rock and Roll: Homosocial Desire and Racial Productivity in ‘A Paler Shade of White.’” American Quarterly 60, no. 4 (2008): 1037–55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40068560.
Lee, Brenda, Robert K. Oermann, and Julie Clay. Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
Mahon, Maureen. “The Rock and Roll Blues: Gender, Race, and Genre in the Songwriting Career of Rose Marie McCoy.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 19, no. 1 (September 10, 2015): 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/wam.2015.0013.
Mahon, Maureen. “Listening for Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton’s Voice: The Sound of Race and Gender Transgressions in Rock and Roll.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 15, no. 1 (2011): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/wam.2011.0005.
Martin, Christopher R. “The Naturalized Gender Order of Rock and Roll.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 19, no. Spring (1995): 53–74.
Martin, Linda, and Kerry Segrave. Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock “n” Roll. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.
Middleton, Richard. “All Shook Up? Innovation and Continuity in Elvis Presley’s Vocal Style.” In Elvis: Images and Fancies, edited by Jac L. Tharpe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979.
Monaghan, Terry. “Rock Around the Clock: The Record, the Film, and the Last Historic Dance Revolt.” Popular Music History 3, no. 2 (August 2008): 123.
Morrison, Craig. Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
O’Brien, Lucy. She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. London: Continuum, 2002.
O’Brien, Lucy. She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. New York: Penguin, 1996.
O’Dair, Barbara. Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. New York: Random House, 1997.
Perry, Steve. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: The Politics of Crossover.” In Facing the Music: Essays on Pop, Rock and Culture, edited by Simon Frith. New York: Mandarin, 1988.
Plasketes, George. Play It Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010.
Pollock, Bruce. When Rock Was Young: A Nostalgic Review of the Top 40 Era. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
Reynolds, Simon, and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock’n’Roll. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Rhodes, Lisa L. Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Riley, Tim. Fever: How Rock “n” Roll Transformed Gender in America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Runowicz, John Michael. Forever Doo-Wop: Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Sagolla, Lisa Jo. Rock “n” Roll Dances of the 1950s. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.
Segrave, Kerry. Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
Shaw, Arnold. Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
Shaw, Arnold. The Rockin’ ’50s: The Decade That Transformed the Pop Music Scene. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974.
Wald, Elijah. How the Beatles Destroyed Rock “n” Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Zak, Albin. I Don’t Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

Women in Rock

Bayton, Mavis. Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Carson, Mina, Tisa Lewis, and Susan M. Shaw. Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Coates, Norma. “Teenyboppers, Groupies, and Other Grotesques: Girls and Women and Rock Culture in the 1960s and Early 1970s.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 15, no. 1 (2003): 65.
Davis, Hank, and Sam Phillips. Memphis Belles: The Women of Sun Records. Hambergen, Germany: Bear Family, 2002.
Gaar, Gillian G. She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll. New York: Seal Press, 2002.
Gardner, Abigail, and Ros Jennings, eds. “Rock On”: Women, Ageing and Popular Music. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016.
Greig, Charlotte. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: Girl Groups from the 50s On. London: Virago, 1989.
Havranek, Carrie, ed. Women Icons of Popular Music. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008.
Hirshey, Gerri. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock. Grove Press, 2002.
Kearney, Mary Celeste. Gender and Rock. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Leonard, Marion. Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power. Routledge, 2017.
Mahon, Maureen. “The Rock and Roll Blues: Gender, Race, and Genre in the Songwriting Career of Rose Marie McCoy.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 19, no. 1 (September 10, 2015): 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/wam.2015.0013.
Mahon, Maureen. “Listening for Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton’s Voice: The Sound of Race and Gender Transgressions in Rock and Roll.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 15, no. 1 (2011): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/wam.2011.0005.
Martin, Christopher R. “The Naturalized Gender Order of Rock and Roll.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 19, no. Spring (1995): 53–74.
McDonnell, Evelyn, ed. Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce, Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl. New York, NY: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018.
O’Brien, Lucy. She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. London: Continuum, 2002.
O’Brien, Lucy. She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. New York: Penguin, 1996.
O’Dair, Barbara. Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. New York: Random House, 1997.
Ochs, Meredith. Rock-and-Roll Woman: The 50 Fiercest Female Rockers. New York: Sterling, 2018.
Oermann, Robert K., and Mary A. Bufwack. “Rockabilly Women.” The Journal of Country Music 8, no. 1 (1979): 65–94.
Reddington, Helen. The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2007.
Reynolds, Simon, and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock’n’Roll. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Rhodes, Lisa L. Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Sanjek, David (Author). “Can a Fujiyama Mama Be the Female Elvis? The Wild, Wild Women of Rockabilly.” In Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, edited by Sheila Whiteley. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Savage, Ann M. They’re Playing Our Songs : Women Talk about Feminist Rock Music. Praeger, 2003.
Steward, Sue, and Sheryl Garratt. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: True Life Stories of Women in Pop. Boston: South End Press, 1984.
Stras, Laurie. She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
Strohm, John. “Women Guitarists: Gender Issues in Alternative Rock.” In The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, 181–200. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Wald, Gayle F. “Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Prehistory of ‘Women in Rock.’” In This Is Pop: In Search of the Elusive at Experience Music Project., 56–67, 2004.
Warwick, Jacqueline C. Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Whitall, Susan. Women of Motown: An Oral History. New York: Avon Books, 1998.

Gender Studies

Bayton, Mavis. Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Breines, Wini. “The 1950s: Gender and Some Social Science.” Sociological Inquiry 56, no. 1 (January 1, 1986): 69–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.1986.tb00076.x.
Breines, Wini. Young, White, and Miserable: Growing up Female in the Fifties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Brittan, Francesca. “Women Who ‘Do Elvis’: Authenticity, Masculinity, and Masquerade.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 18, no. 2 (2006): 167–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-1598.2006.00087.x.
Brown, Helen Gurley. Sex and the Single Girl. New York: B. Geis Associates, 1962.
Brown, Jayna. Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2008.
Browne, V. Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Burns, Lori, and Mélisse Lafrance. Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity & Popular Music. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Coates, Norma J. “It’s a Man’s, Man’s World: Television and the Masculinization of Rock Discourse and Culture.” Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2002.
Coates, Norma. “Teenyboppers, Groupies, and Other Grotesques: Girls and Women and Rock Culture in the 1960s and Early 1970s.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 15, no. 1 (2003): 65.
Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Coontz, Stephanie. A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. New York: Basic Books, 2011.
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989, 139.
Deveaux, Monique. “Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault.” Feminist Studies 20, no. 2 (1994): 223–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/3178151.
Fast, Susan. “‘Girls: Rock Your Boys!’ the Continuing Non-History of Women in Rock Music.” In History Herstory: Alternative Musikgeschichten., 154–72, 2008.
Ferreira, Christine. “Like a Virgin: The Men Don’t Know, but the Little Girls Understand.” Popular Music and Society 11, no. 2 (1987): 5–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007768708591273.
Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Gentry, Philip. “Whiteness and Sex in the Music of Rosemary Clooney.” American Music Review 43, no. 2 (2014). http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/hitchcock/publications/amr/v43-2/gentry.php.
Greig, Charlotte. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: Girl Groups from the 50s On. London: Virago, 1989.
Hayes, Eileen M. Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Jarman-Ivens, Freya. “‘Don’t Cry Daddy’: The Denegration of Elvis Presley’s Musical Masculinity.” In Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music, edited by Freya Jarman-Ivens. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Kimber, Marian Wilson. “The ‘Suppression’ of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography.” 19th-Century Music 26, no. 2 (2002): 113–29. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2002.26.2.113.
Martin, Christopher R. “The Naturalized Gender Order of Rock and Roll.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 19, no. Spring (1995): 53–74.
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic Books, 2008.
McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Reprint edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
McCusker, Kristine M. Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
McCusker, Kristine M., and Diane Pecknold. A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
McGee, Kristin A. Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959. Music/Culture. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.
Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960. Critical Perspectives on the Past. Phliadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
O’Brien, Lucy. She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. London: Continuum, 2002.
O’Brien, Lucy. She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. New York: Penguin, 1996.
O’Dair, Barbara. Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. New York: Random House, 1997.
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Reddington, Helen. The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2007.
Reynolds, Simon, and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock’n’Roll. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Riley, Tim. Fever: How Rock “n” Roll Transformed Gender in America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Russ, Joanna. How to Suppress Women’s Writing. Reprint edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.
Sanjek, David (Author). “Can a Fujiyama Mama Be the Female Elvis? The Wild, Wild Women of Rockabilly.” In Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender, edited by Sheila Whiteley. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Schippers, Mimi. Rockin’ Out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Solie, Ruth A. “Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs.” In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, edited by S. Scher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518355.013.
Stras, Laurie. She’s So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
Strohm, John. “Women Guitarists: Gender Issues in Alternative Rock.” In The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon, 181–200. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Tucker, Sherrie. Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
Vander Wel, Stephanie. “‘I Am a Honky-Tonk Girl’: Country Music, Gender, and Migration.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.
Walser, Robert. Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Warwick, Jacqueline C. Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Warwick, Jacqueline C. “I Got All My Sisters with Me: Girl Culture, Girl Identity, and Girl Group Music.” Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.
Whiteley, Sheila. Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Biography

Bennett, Betty. The Ladies Who Sing with the Band. Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Brown, Ruth, and Andrew Yule. Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999.
Cohodas, Nadine. Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.
Deffaa, Chip. Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
DeWitt, Howard A. “Janis Martin: The First Lady Of Rockabilly.” Blue Suede News, no. 81 (Winter 2007): 13–16.
Francis, Connie. For Every Young Heart: Connie Francis Talks to Teenagers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Francis, Connie. Among My Souvenirs: The Real Story. Concetta Literary, Incorporated, 2017.
Garbutt, Bob. Rockabilly Queens: The Careers and Recordings of Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin, Brenda Lee. Toronto: Ducktail Press, 1979.
Harbinson, W.A. with Kay Wheeler. Growing Up with the Memphis Flash. Amsterdam: TuttiFruitti, 1994.
Jackson, John A. American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock n Roll Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Jackson, John A. Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll. New York: Schirmer Books, 1991.
Jackson, Wanda, and Scott B. Bomar. Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. BMG Books, 2017.
Kid, Lakeview. “Barbara Lynn: Texas R&B Guitar Goddess Still Got a Great Thing Goin’, Baby.” Ponderosa Stomp, 2015. http://blog.ponderosastomp.com/2015/06/barbara-lynn-texas-rb-guitar-goddess-still-got-a-great-thing-goin-baby/.
Kitt, Eartha. Thursday’s Child. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956.
Lee, Peggy. Miss Peggy Lee: An Autobiography. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Lee, Brenda, Robert K. Oermann, and Julie Clay. Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
Lewis, Linda Gail. The Devil, Me, and Jerry Lee. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1998.
Mahon, Maureen. “The Rock and Roll Blues: Gender, Race, and Genre in the Songwriting Career of Rose Marie McCoy.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 19, no. 1 (September 10, 2015): 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1353/wam.2015.0013.
Mahon, Maureen. “Listening for Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton’s Voice: The Sound of Race and Gender Transgressions in Rock and Roll.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 15, no. 1 (2011): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/wam.2011.0005.
Maki, Bones (Craig). “Laura Lee Perkins Isn’t Lost! (Interview).” Blue Suede News, Spring 2005.
Merritt, Cari Lee. “Sparkle Moore: The Tiger That Never Stopped Purring (Interview).” Blue Suede News, Summer 2005.
Neely, Emily C. (Author). “Charline Arthur: The Unmaking of a Honky-Tonk Star.” Southern Cultures 8, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 86.
Nimmo, H. Arlo. The Andrews Sisters: A Biography and Career Record. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Ritz, David, and Etta James. Rage To Survive: The Etta James Story. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Ross, Beverly. I Was the First Woman Phil Spector Killed. Nashville, TN: Beverly Ross LLC, 2013.
Wald, Gayle. Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.
White, Renée Minus. Maybe: My Memoir. RoseDog Books, 2016.
Whiteside, Jonny. Ramblin’ Rose: The Life and Career of Rose Maddox. Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation Press, 1997.
Wilson, By Mary. Dreamgirl and Supreme Faith: My Life as a “Supreme” (Paperback) - Common. Cooper Square Publishers Inc., 2000.