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Peter Gammond, Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985).

Ronald Garay, Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992).

Gilberto G. Garcia, "The Development of Alternative FM Radio in Austin" (M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1990).

Juan S. Garrido, Historia de la Musica Popular en Mexico, 1896-1973 (Mexico City: Editorial Extemporaneos, 1974).

Galen Gart and Roy C. Ames, Duke/Peacock Records: An Illustrated History with Discography (Milford, NH: Big Nickel Publications, 1990).

Richard M. Garvin and Edmond G. Addeo, The Midnight Special: The Legend of Leadbelly (New York: B. Geis Associates, 1971).

Claes af Geijerstam, Popular Music In Mexico (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1976).

Robert Geisberg, Carl Cunningham and Alan Rich, Houston Grand Opera At 50 (Houston, TX: Herring Press, 2005).

Linnell Gentry, A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western and Gospel Music, second edition (Nashville, TN: Clairmont Corp., 1969).

Linnell Gentry, A History and Encyclopedia of Country, Western, and Gospel Music (St. Clair Shores, MI, Scholarly Press, 1972).

Silas Edwin George, "Music and Music Education in Abilene, Texas: 1881-1911" (Ph.D. diss., University of North Texas, 1983).

Holly George-Warren; Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry (New York: Oxford University Press; 2007).

Peggy Sue Gerron; Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?: A Memoir by Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue (Tyler, TX: TOGIEntertainment; 2008).

Carlos B. Gil, "Lydia Mendoza: Houstonian and First Lady of Mexican American Song," Houston Review, III (Summer, 1981).

Luke Gilliam and Guy Rogers III, Pat Green's Dance Halls & Dreamers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008).

Cary Ginell and Roy Lee Brown, Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994).

Cary Ginell and Kevin Coffey, Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001).

Joe Goldberg, Jazz Masters of the '50s (New York: Macmillan, 1963).

John Goldrosen, Buddy Holly, His Life and Music (Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 1975).

John Goldrosen, The Buddy Holly Story (New York: Quick Fox, 1979).

John Goldrosen and John Beecher, Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography of Buddy Holly (New York: Viking Penguin, 1986).

David Goodman, Modern Twang: An Alternative Country Music Guide and Directory (Nashville, TN: Dowling Press, 1999).

Nora Jean Goodreau, "The History of the Texas Woman's University Music Therapy Program from 1957 to 1977" (Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Woman's University, 1991).

Alan B. Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield, Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998).

Alan B. Govenar, Blind Lemon Jefferson; The Myth and the Man (Chicago: Black Music Research Journal, 2000).

Alan B. Govenar, Living Texas Blues (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1985).

Alan B. Govenar, Meeting The Blues: The Rise of the Texas Sound (New York: De Capo, 1995).

Alan B. Govenar, The Life and Poems of Osceola Mays (Racine, WI: Arcadia Press, 1989).

Alan B. Govenar with Benny Joseph, The Early Years of Rhythm & Blues (Houston: Rice University Press, 1990).

Alan B. Govenar, Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).

David Graham, He Walks With Me: The Religious Experiences of Country Music Stars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977).

Joe S. Graham (ed.), Hispanic-American Material Culture: An Annotated Directory of Collections, Sites, Archives and Festivals in the United States (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989).

Daniel Ross Grant, "The Texas Music Educators Association: A Historical Study of Selected Landmark Events Between 1938 and 1980 and the Decisions Which Influenced Their Outcomes" (Ph.D. diss., University of North Texas, 1989).

Archie Green, "Austin's Cosmic Cowboys: Words in Collision" in "And Other Neighborly Names": Social Process and Cultural Image in Texas, ed. Richard Bauman and Roger Abrahams (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).

Archie Green, Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).

Bill Green, The Dancing Was Lively: Fort Concho, A Social History 1867 to 1882 (San Angelo: Fort Concho Sketches Publishing, 1974).

Douglas B. Green, Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1976).

Victor Greene, A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).

John Greenway, The Anatomy of a Genius: Woody Guthrie (New York: Hootenanny Enterprises, 1964).

Hugh Gregory, Who's Who in Country Music (London, England: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1993).

Hugh Gregory, Roadhouse Blues: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Texas R&B (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003).

Constance Fenter Griffin, "A Literary History of Rains County" (M.A. thesis, East Texas State Teachers College, 1952).

Peni R. Griffin, The Music Thief (New York : Henry Holt, 2002).

Nanci Griffith and Joe Jackson, Nanci Griffith's Other Voices (New York: Random House / Three Rivers Press, 1998).

Bill Griggs and Jim Black, Buddy Holly: A Collectors Guide (Sheboygan, WI: Red Wax Pub. Co., 1983).

Bill Griggs, A Who's Who of West Texas Rock 'n' Roll Music (Levelland: Nocks Publishing, 1994).

Bill Griggs, The Words and Music of Buddy Holly: His Songs and Interviews (the Technical Stuff), Featuring All Recorded Music (Songs and Jingles, etc.), Whether Released or Unreleased, and All Spoken Promos and Interviews (Lubbock: Bill Griggs, 1995; available from author on CD Rom for $13: P.O. Box 6123, Lubbock, TX 79493).

Bill Griggs, The Evolution and Decline of Rock 'n' Roll Music of the 1950s: Where the Music Came From ... and Where It Went (Lubbock: Bill Griggs, 1996; available from author for $13: P.O. Box 6123, Lubbock, TX 79493).

Bill Griggs, Buddy Holly Day-By Day (Lubbock: Bill Griggs, 1997; available from author for $79: P.O. Box 6123, Lubbock, TX 79493).

Carlos R. Guerra, "The Unofficial Conjunto Primer for the Uninitiated Music Lover, Revised," Tonantzin 6 (2): 6-7 (1989).

Jack Guerry, Silvio Scionti: Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991).

Jack Guerry (comp. and ed.), The Essays of Silvio Scionti on Artistic Piano Playing and Other Topics (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998).

Peter Guralnick, Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians (Boston: Godine Press, 1979).

Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory (New York: New American Library, 1983).

Woody Guthrie, Pastures of Plenty: A Self-Portrait (New York: Harper & Row, 1990).

Woody Guthrie, Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed (New York: Dutton, 1995).

Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs ( New York: Harper Collins, 1992).

Woody Guthrie and Kathy Jakobsen, illustrator, This Land is Your Land (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1998).

Félix Gutíerrez and Jorge Schement, Spanish-Language Radio in the Southwestern United States (Austin: UT Austin Center for Mexican-American Studies, 1979).

Oscar Haas, A Chronological History of the Singers of German Songs in Texas (New Braunfels: [n.p.], 1948).

Martha Ann Rosborough Hallmark, "A Study of the Attitudes of Texas Public School Music Teachers Toward Their Profession" (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1956).

Tommy X. Hancock, Zen and the Art of the Texas Two-Step: The Book on Dancing (Austin: World Wide Publishing, 1997).

Lisa Carol Hardaway, "Sacred Harp Traditions in Texas," (M.A. thesis, Rice University, 1989).

Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue; The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (Kent, England: Amber Waves/Heartland Publishing, 2003).

Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Blue; The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008).

Patricia Harpole and Mark Fogelquist, Los Mariachis (Danbury, CT: World Music Press, 1989).

Sheldon Harris, The Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers (New York: Da Capo, 1989).

Steve Harris; Texas Troubadours (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007).

Daphne Duval Harrison, Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Presss, 1988).

Max Harrison, Charles Fox, and Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records, Vol. 1, Ragtime to Swing (London, England: Da Capo Press, 1984).

Hartline Marketing, Red River Valley Memories; The Texas Swing Sessions, Volume 2 (School of Prophet Pubns, 1999).

Gary Hartman, The History of Texas Music (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008).

Steve Hartz By the Muddy Angelina: Stories & Musical Wanderings in Search of the Old Pioneer Spirit of East Texas (Nacogdoches, TX: Mystery Ridge, 2001).

James Haskins and Kathleen Benson, Scott Joplin (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1978).

Walter Darrell Hayden "Vernon Dalhart: His Rural Roots and the Beginnings of Commercial Country Music," Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, Vol. III, No. 1, (Winter 1970-71).

Michael V. Hazel, "Arts and Recreation in Twentieth-Century Texas," paper delivered at annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (March 4-6, 1999).

Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times (New York: Limelight Editions; Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985).

Tim Henderson, Sweeping Up Dreams - Lyrics As Poetry (Wimberley: Sun Country Publications, 1996).

Nat Hentoff, The Jazz Life (New York: Da Capo Press, 1975).

Nat Hentoff, Listen To The Stories: Nat Hentoff on Jazz and Country Music (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).

Ramon Hernandez (editor), Texas Entertainment and Hispanic Music Industry Directory fifth edition (San Antonio: RDS Marketing, 2005).

Mary Lee Hester, Going to Kansas City (Sherman: Early Bird Press, 1980).

Bill Hicks, Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines (London: Constable & Robinson, 2004).

Craig D. Hillis with photos by Bruce F. Jordan, Texas Trilogy: Life in a Small Texas Town (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002).

Brian Hinton, South by Southwest: A Roadmap to Alternative Country (London: Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd., 2003).

Larry D. Hodge and Michael Stevens, Texas Tales in Words and Music (Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 2001).

George Hoefer, "Held Notes: Eddie Durham," Down Beat, XXIX (July 19, 1962).

Travis Holland, Texas Genesis (Austin: B.F. Deal Press, 1978).

Larry Holley, The Buddy I Knew (Lubbock: Larry Holley, 1980).

Honky Tonk Visions On West Texas Music: 1936-1986 (Lubbock: The Museum, Texas Tech University, 1986).

C. Lee Hopkins (editor), The Stevie Ray Vaughan Anthology (Dallas: C. Lee Hopkins, 1996).

Joseph Horowitz, The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (New York: Summit Books, 1990).

Dorothy Horstman, Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy: Classic Country Songs and Their Inside Stories by the Men and Women Who Wrote Them (Nashville, TN: Country Music Association and Vanderbilt University Press, 1995).

Kathleen Hudson, In Their Own Words (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998).

Kathleen Hudson, Telling Stories, Writing Songs: An Album of Texas Songwriters (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001).

Kathleen Hudson, Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007).

George Hurchalla, Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992 (Stuart, FL: Zuo Press, 2005).

H. Ed Hurt, Bob Wills - His Life - Times - Music (Bloomington: 1st Books Library, 2000).

Martin Huxley and Quinton Skinner, The Day the Music Died (New York: Pocket Books, 2000).

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Bruce Jackson, Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Work Songs of Texas Prisons (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Jack Jackson, "Threadgill's: The Comic Book", in Threadgill's: The Cookbook (Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1996).

Nels Jacobson, "The Maverick Tradition: Postering in Austin, Texas", article in OFFtheWALL: 1991/Volume No. 1/Issue No. 2; 1992/Volume No. 1/Issue No. 3]

Mint Oliver James-Reed, Music in Austin, 1900-1956 (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, 1957).

Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Lemon Jefferson (edited by Bob Groom; Knutsford, Cheshire, England: Blues World, 1970).

Waylon Jennings with Lenny Kaye, Waylon: An Autobiography (New York: Warner Books, 1996).

Sister Joan of Arc, C.D.P., Catholic Music and Musicians in Texas (San Antonio: Our Lady of the Lake College, 1936).

Bobby H. Johnson, "Tillit S. Teddlie: Texas Gospel Songwriter," paper delivered at annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (March 4-6, 1999).

Dr. Thomas S. Johnson, Willie Nelson: A Discographic Listing (Danbury, CT: Mark Rothbaum and Associates, 1985).

George Jones with Tom Carter, I Lived To Tell It All (New York: Villard Books, 1996).

Hatti M. Jones, Free to Dream: The Real Story of Kirk Franklin and His Friends (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006).

Laura Joplin, Love, Janis (New York: Villard Books, 1992).

Vernon Joynson, The Acid Trip(San Francisco, Last Gasp Books, 1984).

Vernon Joynson, Fuzz, Acid and Flowers: Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975) (Leeds, England: Borderline Books, 1997).

Vernon Joynson, Fuzz, Acid and Flowers Revisited: Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975) (Leeds, England: Borderline Books, 2004).

A.E.K., Life of A.O. Babel, The Original and Famous Texas Cowboy Pianist (New York, Dick Publishing House, 1890).

Philip Kamin, ZZ Top (Robus Books, 1986).

Robert Earl Keen, Jr., Merry Christmas From the Family (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 2001).

Charles Keil, Urban Blues (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966).

Jeannette Keim and Robert Brule (eds), Texas, Our Texas, And Other Favorite Songs of the Lone Star State: A Volume of Music, History, and Art (Irving: Cimarron Music, 1991).

Rod Kennedy, Music From The Heart: Rod Kennedy's 50 Year Chronicle of His Life In Music With a Few Side Trips (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998).

Nick Kent, The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-1993 (London, England: Penguin Books, 1994).

Warren Kice, Hank Thompson: My Side of Life: The Biography (Roanoke, TX: My Side of Life Publications, 2008).

Rich Kienzle, Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers of Honky-Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Kenn Kingsbury, Kingsbury's Who's Who in Country and Western Music (Culver City, CA: Black Stallion Country Press, 1981).

Paul Kingsbury, The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music: 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars, and the Stories (New York: Villard Books, 1995).

Paul Kingsbury (ed.), The Country Reader: Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Country Music (Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press & Vanderbilt University Press, 1996).

Joe Klein, Woody Guthrie: A Life (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1999).

Donna Staley Kline, An American Virtuoso on the World Stage: Olga Samaroff Stokowski (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996).

Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams with James Patrick Herman, Soul Survivors: Destiny's Child (New York: Regan Books, 2002).

Ruth Sheldon Knowles, Hubbin' It: The Life of Bob Wills (Kingsport, TN: Kingsport Press, 1938).

Roger H. Kolar, Early Czech Dance Halls in Texas (Austin: Roger H. Kolar, 1975).

Rick Koster, Texas Music (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).

Phyllis Krantzman, "Impact of the Music Entertainment Industry On Austin, Texas" (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1983).

Robert K. Krishef, Jimmie Rodgers (Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1978).

Robert K. Krishef and Bonnie Lake, Western Stars of Country Music (Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Co., 1978).

John Kruth, To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007).

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John Lahr, "Bill Hicks: Light Fantastic," New Yorker (November 1, 1993).

Dave Laing, Buddy Holly (New York: Macmillan, 1971).

Tracey E. W. Laird, Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Deborah Landau, Janis Joplin, Her Life and Times (New York: Paperback Library, 1971).

James Langdon, "The True Chameleon is an Old World Lizard," Chicago Review XVI, No. 1 (1974).

Bob Lapham , Meet Me at the River Buddy Holly (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2003).

Margaret Larkin, Singing Cowboys: A Book of Western Songs (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931).

Aaron John Latham, "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit," Esquire Vol. 90, pp. 21-30 (Sept. 12, 1978).

Jimmy Latham, The Life of Bob Wills: The King of Western Swing (Odessa: Latham Pub., 1974).

Mary Alice Lavender, "Social Conditions in Houston and Harris County, Music Topic" (M.A. thesis, Rice Institute, Houston, 1950).

Kelly Robert Lawler, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators and the Origins of Psychedelic Music in Austin, Texas (Master's Thesis - California State University, Fresno - Department of History, 1998).

Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, Blues Records 1943-1970 (two vols.; London, England: Record Information Services, 1987).

Johnny Lee and Randy Wyles, Lookin' For Love (Austin: Diamond Back / Eakin Books, 1989).

Keri Leigh, Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul (Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1993).

Joe M. Leonard, Jr. with Shaun Mather, Rockabilly, Radio and WWII (Austin: Eakin Press, 2004).

José E. Limon, "Texas-Mexican Popular Music and Dancing: A Symbological Interpretation," (unpublished manuscript, 1977).

José E. Limon, Dancing With The Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994).

Richard E. Lingenfelter, Richard Dwyer and David Cohen, Songs of the American West (University of California Press, 1968).

Miriam Linna, "Bobby Fuller: Rock & Roll King of the Southwest," Kicks No. 6 (1988).

Mance Lipscomb, (see Glen Alyn).

John Litweiler, The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1984).

John Litweiler, Ornette Coleman: A Harmolodic Life (New York: William Morrow, 1992).

Horace Logan with Bill Sloan, Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).

Guy W. Logsdon, The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989).

Guy W. Logsdon, Mary Rogers and William Jacobson, Saddle Serenaders (Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1994).

Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993).

Alan Lomax [Ronald D. Cohen, comp. and ed.], Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997 (New York : Routledge, 2003).

John Lomax, Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1919).

John Lomax and Alan Lomax (eds.), American Ballads and Folk Songs (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1933).

John Lomax and Alan Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1938).

John Lomax and Alan Lomax (eds.), Negro Folk Songs as Sung By Lead Belly: "King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World" (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1936).

John Lomax, Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1947).

John Lomax and Alan Lomax (eds.), Folk Songs USA (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1947).

Jim, Longhi, Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997).

Kip Lornell, Blind Lemon Meets Leadbelly (Chicago: Black Music Research Journal, 2000).

Los Pastores trans. Carmelo Tranchese, music notation by Carmela Montalvo. (1949; reprint, San Antonio: Treviño, 1976).

Fred Lowery as told to John R. McDowell, Whistling in the Dark (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1983).

Anthony S. Lyle curated by Craig D. Hills, Charles Gallagher and Geronimo Treviño III Dance Halls and Last Calls: An Exhibition Documenting Texas Dance Halls and Country Music Traditions (New Braunfels: New Braunfels Museum of Art and Music, 2003).

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