Incoming Resources
- Running with the Devil, power, gender, and madness in heavy metal music, Robert Walser
- Hip hop matters, politics, pop culture, and the struggle for the soul of a movement, S. Craig Watkins
- The biographical encyclopedia of jazz, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, with the assistance of Swing journal, Tokyo
- Down the highway, the life of Bob Dylan, Howard Sounes
- The Oxford companion to jazz, edited by Bill Kirchner
- Nothing but the blues, the music and the musicians, [edited by] Lawrence Cohn ; [text by] Mary Katherine Aldin [and others]
- The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music, edited by Colin Larkin
- Out of sight, the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
- What to listen for in jazz, Barry Kernfeld
- Banding together, how communities create genres in popular music, Jennifer C. Lena
- Lowside of the road, a life of Tom Waits, Barney Hoskyns
- Last train to Memphis, the rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick
- The new Grove dictionary of jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld
- The international encyclopedia of hard rock & heavy metal, Tony Jasper and Derek Oliver, Steve Hammond, Dave Reynolds
- The dark tree, jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles, Steven L. Isoardi
- Light my fire, my life with the Doors, Ray Manzarek
- Careless love, the unmaking of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick
- American roots music, edited by Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, and Jim Brown ; foreword by Bonnie Raitt
- Too marvelous for words, the life and genius of Art Tatum, James Lester
- Sound of the beast, the complete headbanging history of heavy metal, Ian Christe
- The resisting muse, popular music and social protest, edited by Ian Peddie
- Chasin' the Bird, the life and legacy of Charlie Parker, Brian Priestley
- Latin jazz, the first of the fusions, 1880s to today, John Storm Roberts
- Black noise, rap music and black culture in contemporary America, Tricia Rose
- Dream boogie, the triumph of Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick
- Urban blues, Charles Keil
- The Beatles anthology
- Race music, black cultures from bebop to hip-hop, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr
- Pops, a life of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout
- Swing, swing, swing, the life & times of Benny Goodman, Ross Firestone
- And they all sang, adventures of an eclectic disc jockey, Studs Terkel
- Book of rhymes, the poetics of hip hop, Adam Bradley
- Doo-dah!, Stephen Foster and the rise of American popular culture, Ken Emerson
- New perspectives on jazz, report on a national conference held at Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin, September 8-10, 1986, David N. Baker, editor ; sponsored by National Jazz Service Organization ... [et al.] in cooperation with Indiana University School of Music and the National Endowment for the Arts