Bibliography: Women and Music

Rock Music

Carson, Mina, Tisa Lewis, Susan M. Shaw. Girls Rock! Fifty Years of Women Making Music.
ML 82.C37   

Hirshey, Gerri. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock.
ML 3534.H58   

Millikin, Robert. Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock.
ML423.R77 M55  

O'Brien, Lucy. She Bop: the Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop, and Soul.
ML 82.027   

Raphael, Amy. Grrrls: Viva Rock Divas.
ML 82.R37    

Reynolds, Simon and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock n Roll.
ML 82.R53

Whiteley, Sheila. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity.
ML 82.W48   

Rock Music (Young Adult)

Carver, Lisa Crystal. Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
CT275.C3415A3

Gaar, Gillian G. She’s a Rebel: the History of Women in Rock and Roll
ML394.G28

Guy, Jasmine. Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
 E185.97.S528G89

Raha, Maria. Cinderella’s Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground 
ML3534.R34

Sheffield, Rob. Love is a Mix Tape
ML423.S537A3

Siegel, Jennifer, and Jennifer Baumgardner. Sisterhood  Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. 
HQ1121.S54

Jazz, Blues, and Gospel

Clark, Donald. Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon. 
ML3930.H64C55
 
Dahl, Linda. Stormy weather: the Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen.
ML82.D3
 
Jackson, Buzzy. A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them.
ML400.J24
 
Orgill, Roxane. Mahalia: a Life in Gospel Music.
ML3930.J2O74
 
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Ella Fitzgerald: the Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa.
ML3930.F5P56 2007

Composers and Classical

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: a History of Women in American Music.
ML82.A45

Barnett, LaShonda Katrice. I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft.
ML390.B255

Block, Adrienne Fried. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944.
ML410.B36B56

Briscoe, James R. Historical Anthology of Music by Women.
M1.H664

Green, Mildred Denby. Black Women Composers.
ML390.G83

Jezic, Diane Peacock. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found.
ML390.J37

LePage, Jane Weiner. Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the Twentieth Century: Selected Biographies.
ML82.L46

Opera

Edwards, Anne. Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography.
ML420.C18E39

Fingleton, David. Kiri Te Kanawa: A Biography.
ML420.32F5

Hayes, Eileen M. and Linda F. Williams. Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues.
ML82.A37

Sills, Beverly. Beverly: An Autobiography
ML420.S562A3

Story, Rosalyn M. And So I Sing: African-American Divas of Opera
ML400.S88

Sutherland, Joan. A Prima Donna’s Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland
ML420.S96A3

Fiction

Killer Riff by Sheryl J. Anderson

We’re So Famous by Jaime Clarke

Sex, Lies, Murder, Fame by Lolitta Files

Hit Time: a mystery by Ardella Garland

Dear Catastrophe Waitress by Brendan Halpin 

Phat Death: A Nina Halligman Mystery by Norman Kelley

Bling by Erica Kennedy

Thank You for the Music by Jane McCafferty

Best in Rock Fiction edited by June Skinner Sawyers

Young Adult Fiction

War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Rock My World: A Novel of Thongs, Spandex, and Love in G Minor by Liza Conrad

Guitar Girl by Sara Manning

Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star by Randy Powell

Hip-Hop High School by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

Troll Bridge: A Rock and Roll Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen