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 **Books **  __The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues __. New York: Billboard, 2005. __The New Book of Modern Composers. __ New York: Knopf, 1961. Bakeless, Katherine Little. __Story-lives of American Composers.__ Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1962. Balliett, Whitney. __Such Sweet Thunder: Forty-nine Pieces on Jazz.__ Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. Claghorn, Charles Eugene. __Biographical Dictionary of American Music__. West Nyack, NY: Parker, 1973. Copland, Aaron. __What to Listen for in Music.__ New York: McGraw-Hill, [1957]. Ewan, David, ed. __Popular American Composers: From Revolutionary Times to the Present__. New York: Wilson, 1962. Ewan, David, ed. __American Composers Today: A Biographical and Critical Guide__. New York: Wilson, 1949. Feather, Leonard G. __The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties.__ New York: Horizon, 1966. Feather, Leonard G. __The New Edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz: Completely Revised with 2000 Biographies and Photos.__ New York: Bonanza, 1960. Feather, Leonard G. __The Pleasures of Jazz: Leading Performers on Their Lives, Their Music, Their Contemporaries.__ New York: Horizon, 1976. Hardy, P. Stephen. __Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance.__ New York: Children's Press, 2000. Hughes, Langston. __The First Book of Jazz.__ New York: Franklin Watts, 1976. Kallen, Stuart A. __The History of Jazz .__ San Diego: Lucent Books, 2003. Koopmans, Andy. __The Harlem Renaissance.__ Detroit: Lucent, 2006. Lee, Jeanne. __Jam!: The Story of Jazz Music.__ New York: Rosen, 1999. Venezia, Mike. __Aaron Copland.__ Chicago: Children’s Press, 1995.
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Social Issues Research Services (SIRS) Renaissance database:< [|http://sks.sirs.com] >
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Grolier Encyclopedias: < [|http://go.grolier.com] > WorldBook Online: < [|http://www.worldbookonline.com] >
 * Online Encyclopedias **

 42eXplore. “Biographies of Jazz Musicians.” 20 Apr 2009. <[]> Library of Congress. “Harlem Renaissance Resources.” 21 Apr 2009. <[]> National Museum of American History. “Research Collections”. //Smithsonian Jazz//. 22 Apr 2009. < [] > <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PBS. //Duke Ellington's Washington//. 20 Apr 2009. <[]>. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PBS. "The Jazz Age: Jazzing It Up". //Learning Adventures in Citizenship: Cosmopolis, 1914-1931//. 20 Apr 2009. < [] >. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TIME 100. //Artists and Entertainers//. 20 Apr 2009. <[] >. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
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