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Kubik, Gerhard. Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

Unit 1: Introducing Blues and Jazz—Music, Culture, Race, Gender, and Identity

Lawson, R. A. “The First Century of Blues: One Hundred Years of Hearing and Interpreting the Music and Musicians.” Southern Cultures 13, no. 3 (2007): 39–61.
Comentale, Edward P. “Lord, It Just Won’t Stop! Work and Blues in the Industrial Delta.” In Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song, 29–71. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 
Davis, Angela Y. “I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality, and Domesticity.” In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, 3–41. New York: Vintage Books, 1998. 
Shankar, Shobana. “Parchman Women Write the Blues? What Became of Black Women’s Prison Music in Mississippi in the 1930s.” American Music 31, no. 2 (2013): 183–202. 
Tracy, Steven C. “To the Tune of Those Weary Blues: The Influence of the Blues Tradition in Langston Hughes’s Blues Poems.” MELUS 8, no. 3, Ethnic Literature and Cultural Consciousness (1981): 73–98. 
Lock, Graham. “The Blues and the Brush: Rose Piper’s Blues and Negro Folk Song Paintings in the 1940s.” In The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art, edited by Graham Lock and David Murray, 47–72. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Unit 2: Harlem Renaissance and the Emergence of the Jazz Age, 1920–1940

Murchison, Gayle. “‘Dean of Afro-American Composers’ or ‘Harlem Renaissance Man’: The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 53, no. 1 (1994): 42–74. 
Cohen, Harvey G. “Duke Ellington and Black, Brown and Beige: The Composer as Historian at Carnegie Hall.” American Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2004): 1003–1034. 
Veneciano, Jorge Daniel. “Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Swing.” In Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, edited by Robert G. O’Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin, 256–277. Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2004. 
Kubik, Gerhard. “Swing.” In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture, 287–327. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

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Raeburn, Bruce Boyd. “‘I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead’: Louis Armstrong’s Smack Down with White Authority and His First Films, 1930–1932.” Southern Quarterly 51, nos. 1/2 (2013/2014): 58–72. 
DeVeaux, Scott. “The Band Business and Black Musicians, 1935–1941: The Effect of Racial Discrimination Case Histories.” In “Jazz in Transition: Coleman Hawkins and Howard McGhee, 1935–1945,” 135–154. PhD diss., University of California, 1985. 

Unit 3: From Swing to Bebop—Bird’s Black Genius and Hipster Culture, 1940–1960

DeVeaux, Scott. “Bebop and the Recording Industry: The 1942 AFM Recording Ban Reconsidered.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 41, no. 1 (1988): 126–165. 
Greennard, Elliot. “Sparrow’s Last Jump: A Story.” Harper’s Magazine 194 (May 1947): 419–426. 
Komunyakaa, Yusef. “Testimony.” In Testimony, a Tribute to Charlie Parker: With New and Selected Jazz Poems, 79–92. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. 
DeVeaux, Scott. “‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’: Thelonious Monk and Popular Song.” Black Music Research Journal 19, no. 2, New Perspectives on Thelonious Monk (1999): 169–186. 

Unit 4: Rhythm and Blues, Rock ’n’ Roll, Soul, and the Jazz Avant-Garde, 1950–1970

Doss, Erika. “Rock and Roll Pilgrims: Reflections on Ritual, Religiosity, and Race at Graceland.” In Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred, edited by Peter Jan Margry, 123–142. Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
Redd, Lawrence N. “Rock! It’s Still Rhythm and Blues.” The Black Perspective in Music 13, no. 1 (1985): 31–47. 
Anderson, Iain. “Jazz Outside the Marketplace: Free Improvisation and Nonprofit Sponsorship of the Arts, 1965–1980.” American Music 20, no. 2 (2002): 131–167.
Hersch, Charles. “‘Let Freedom Ring!’: Free Jazz and African-American Politics.” Cultural Critique 32 (1995–1996): 97–123.