The reference books listed here are a representative sample of material available on the open shelves of the Rare Books & Music Reading Room. A further collection of reference books on this subject is available in the Humanities Reading Room - floor 2.
| Benjamin, Ruth & Rosenblatt, Arthur | Movie song catalog: performers and supporting crew for the songs sung in 1460 musical and non-musical films, 1928-1988 (Jefferson, London, 1993). |
| Cohen-Stratyner, Barbara N. | Popular music 1900-1919: an annotated guide to American popular songs (Detroit, 1988). |
| Cowden, Robert H. | Popular singers of the twentieth century : a bibliography of biographical materials (Westport, Conn., 1999). |
| Hardy, P. & Laing, D. | Encyclopedia of rock (London 1987). |
| Hart, M. L. & Eagles, B. M. | The Blues: a bibliographic guide (New York, London, 1989). |
| Iwaschkin, Roman | Popular music: a reference guide (New York, London, 1986). |
| Jacobs, Dick | Who wrote that song? (White Hall, Va., 1988). |
| Kilgarriff, Michael | Sing us one of the old songs: a guide to popular song 1860-1920 (Oxford, 1998). |
| Kinkle, Roger D. | The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950 (New Rochelle, 1974). 4 vols. |
| Larkin, Colin (ed.) | The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music (Enfield, 1992). 4 vols. |
| Lax, Roger & Smith, Frederick | The great song thesaurus (2nd ed., New York, Oxford, 1989). |
| Lowe, Leslie | Directory of popular music 1900-1980 (2nd ed., Droitwich, 1986). |
| Pollock, Bruce (ed.) | Popular music: an annotated guide to American popular songs. Vol. 9- . (Detroit, 1986- ). |
| Shapiro, N. & Pollock, B. | Popular music, 1920-1979: an annotated index of over 18,000 American popular songs (Detroit, 1985). 3 vols. |
| Stubblebine, D. J. | Cinema sheet music: a comprehensive listing of published film music from Squaw Man (1914) to Batman (1989) (Jefferson, 1991). |
| Taylor, Paul | Popular music since 1955: a critical guide to the literature (London, 1985). |
| Warner, Alan | Who sang what in rock 'n' roll (London, 1990). |
Contact
Music Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7772
Fax: +44 (0)20 7412 7751
E-mail: Ask the Reference Team
