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Bill Mack, Spins And Needles (New York: Travis Press, 1970).

Bill Mack, Bill Mack's Memories From The Trenches of Broadcasting (Fort Worth: Unit II, 2004).

Hugh MacLean and Vernon Joynson, An American Rock History, Part Two - Texas, Arizona and New Mexico: A Southwestern Pilgrimage 1960-89 (1990; Borderline Productions, P.O. Box 3819, Glasgow G43 1UT, England; 011-44-141-632-4288; fax 011-44-141-632-7278).

William Madsen, The Mexican-Americans of South Texas (New York: Holt, Rinehardt and Winston, 1973).

Bill C. Malone and Judith McCulloh (eds.), Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975).

Bill C. Malone, Southern Music, American Music (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1979).

Bill C. Malone, Country Music, USA (revised edition; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985).

Bill C. Malone, Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993).

Alan Mann, The A-Z of Buddy Holly (London: Aurum Press, 1996).

Alan Mann, Elvis and Buddy - Linked Lives (York: Music Mentor Books, 2002).

Louis J. Marchiafava, "A Feeling For Jazz: An Interview with Arnett Cobb" Houston Review, XII, No. 3 (1990).

Robert Lincoln Marquis, "The Development of the Symphony Orchestra in Texas" (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1934).

Mary Martin, My Heart Belongs (New York: William Morrow, 1976).

Shirley Matterson, "The Past, Present, and Future of the Secondary School Applied Music Program of the State of Texas," (M.A. thesis, Hardin-Simmons University, 1984).

Portia Maultsby, "Africanisms in African-American Music" in Africanisms in American Culture (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990).

Barry McCloud, et. al., Definitive Country: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Country Music and its Performers (New York, NY: Putnam Berkley Pub. Group, 1995).

Mack McCormick, "Mance Lipscomb, Texas Sharecropper and Songster," in American Folk Music Occasional (Berkeley, CA: No. 1, 1964).

Judy McCoy, Rap Music in the 1980s: A Reference Guide (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992).

Rev. Raymond "Big Tex" McDonald, Jr., The USA Montage Treasure of Black Song Legends (Austin: The Guiding Angel Church, 1995).

Tim A. McKenzie illustrated by Elaine Atkinson, Baxter Barret Brown's Bass Fiddle (Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press, 2004).

Tim A. McKenzie illustrated by Elaine Atkinson,, Baxter Barret Brown's Cowboy Band (Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press, 2006).

Duncan McLean, Lone Star Swing: On The Trail of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1997).

Martin McMurtrey, Mariachi Bishop: The Life Story of Patrick Flores (San Antonio: Corona Pub., 1987).

Lois Towles McNeely, "The History of Music Education at Wiley College" (M.A. thesis, State University of Iowa, 1942).

Barry McRae and Tony Middleton, Ornette Coleman (London, England: Apollo Publishing, 1988).

Frankie McWhorter as told to John R. Erickson, Cowboy Fiddler in Bob Wills' Band (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1997).

Wilfrid Mellers, Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965).

David Lawrence Menconi, "Music, Media and the Metropolis: The Case of Austin's Armadillo World Headquarters," (M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1985).

Lydia Mendoza, "The Lark of the Border" published in Ethnic Recordings in America: A Neglected Heritage (Washington, DC: American Folklife Center, 1982).

Lydia Mendoza, Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography (comp. by Chris Strachwitz; Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1993).

Vicente T. Mendoza, El Corrido Mexicano (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1954).

Vicente T. Mendoza, Lirica Narrativa de Mexico: El Corrido (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, 1964).

Heiner Mèuckenberger, Meet Me Where They Play the Blues: Jack Teagarden Und Seine Musik (Gauting-Buchendorf: Oreos, 1986).

Bob Millard, Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993).

Bob Millard, Country Music What's What: The Fan's Guide to the People, Places and Things of Today's Country Music (New York: Harper Perennial, 1995).

Jay Dunston Milner, Confessions of a Maddog: A Romp Through the High-Flying Texas Music and Literary Era of the Fifties to the Seventies (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998).

John Stephen Minton, "Phonograph Blues: Folksong and Media in the Southern United States Before the Second World War," (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1990).

Barbara Mitchell, Raggin': A Story About Scott Joplin (Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1987).

Ruben Molina, Chicano Soul (La Puente, CA: Mictlan Publishing 2008; ; available from the author for $30: P.O. Box 6074, La Puente, CA 91747).

Casey Monahan (ed.), "A Bibliography of Texas Music," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (Volume XCVIII, No. 4, April 1995).

Luigi Monge, The Language of Blind Lemon Jefferson; The Covert Theme of Blindness (Chicago: Black Music Research Journal, 2000).

Fran Moody, "From Jimmy Rodgers to Bob Wills: A Tribute to Shelly Lee Alley," paper delivered at annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (March 4-6, 1999).

Kevin E. Mooney, "Defining Texas Music: Lota May Spell's Contributions," Bulletin of the Society for American Music (26/1, Spring 2000): 1-6.

Kevin E. Mooney, "Texas Centennial 1936: Music and Identity," (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1998).

Craig Morrison, Go Cat Go! Rockabilly Music and Its Makers (Milford, NH: Big Nickel Publications, 1997).

John Morthland, The Best of Country Music (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday Dolphin, 1984).

Wally Moyers, Thirty-Four Years of Country Music In Lubbock, Texas (unpublished manuscript, 1990).

Heiner Mückenberger, Meet Me Where They Play the Blues: Jack Teagarden und Seine Musik (Gauting-Buchendorf: Oreos 1986).

Alan Munde, Mel Bay Presents Texas Fiddle Favorites For Banjo [music] (Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 2000).

Scott Nance, Recycling the Blues: ZZ Top (Las Vegas, NV: Pioneer, 1991).

Peter Narvaez, Living Blues Journal: The Paradoxical Aesthetics of the Blues Revival" in Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993).

Susie Nelson, Heart Worn Memories: A Daughter's Personal Biography of Willie Nelson (Austin: Eakin Publications, 1987).

Willie Nelson, "A Tribute to Bob Wills," Country Music, II, No. 12 (August, 1974).

Willie Nelson with Bud Shrake, Willie: An Autobiography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988).

Willie Nelson, Lyrics 1957-1994 (Don Cusic, editor; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).

Willie Nelson, The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes (New York: Random House, 2002).

Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart (New York: Gotham, 2006).

Patty Nicholas and Rita Shamblin, Eldon Shamblin The Guitar Man: His Fame - His Music - His Memorabilia (Tulsa: Rita Shamblin).

A. M. Nolan, Rock 'n' Roll Roadtrip: The Ultimate Guide to the Sights, the Shrines, and the Legends Across America (New York: Pharos Books, 1992).

Philip Norman, Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996).

Nothin' Else To Do: Celebrating 75 Years of West Texas Music (Lubbock: The Museum, Texas Tech University catalog, 1986).

Himilce Novas and Rosemary Silva, Remembering Selena: A Tribute in Pictures and Words - Recordando a Selena: Un Tributo en Palabras y Fotos (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).

Benjamin Nugent, Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004).

Raymond Obstfeld and Sheila Burgener, Twang!: The Ultimate Book of Country Music Quotations (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1997).

Robert K. Oermann and Douglas B. Green, The Listener's Guide To Country Music (New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1983).

Robert K. Oermann, America's Music: The Roots of Country (Atlanta: Turner Pub., 1996).

Christopher J.Oglesby, Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).

Dave Oliphant and Thomas Zigal (editors), Perspectives on Music: Essays on Collections at the Humanities Research Center (Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1985).

Dave Oliphant (editor), The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music (Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994).

Dave Oliphant, "Eddie Durham and the Texas Contribution to Jazz History," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (April 1993).

Dave Oliphant, Texan Jazz (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996).

Dave Oliphant, Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State (Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007).

Bill O'Neal, Tex Ritter: America's Most Beloved Cowboy (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998).

Steven Opdyke, Willie Nelson Sings America (Austin: Eakin Press, 1998).

Geoffrey J. Orr, Texas Troubador: A Bio-discography of the Life and Times of Smith Ballew, 1902-1984 (Melbourne, Australia: Exact Science Press, 1985).

Jack Ortman (ed.), The Roky Erickson Story (four volumes 1985-1999; available from the author at 1604-B Parker Lane, Austin, TX 78741).

Steven Otfinoski, Scott Joplin: A Life in Ragtime (New York: F. Watts, 1995).

John S. Otto and Augustus Burns, "Black and White Cultural Interaction in Early Twentieth Century South: Race and Hillbilly Music," Phylon (Vol. 33, December 1974).

William A. Owens, Swing and Turn: Texas Play-Party Games (Dallas: Tardy Press, 1936).

William A. Owens, Texas Folk Songs (second edition; Dallas: SMU Press, 1976; distributed by University of North Texas Press).

William A. Owens, Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983).

Jack Palmer, Vernon Dalhart: First Star of Country Music (Highlands Ranch, CO: Mainspring Press, 2005).

Robert Palmer, Deep Blues (New York: Penguin Books, 1982).

Robert Palmer, Rock and Roll: An Unruly History (New York: Harmony Books, 1995).

Américo Paredes, A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995).

Américo Paredes, With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976).

Américo Paredes, Folklore and Culture On The Texas-Mexican Border (edited by Richard Bauman; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).

Américo Paredes, "José Mosqueda and the Folklorization of Actual Events," Aztlán, IV (Spring, 1973).

Jack Parson, Straight From The Heart: Portraits of Traditional Hispanic Musicians (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1990).

Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught In The Crossfire (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1993).

Joe Nick Patoski, Selena: Como La Flor (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1996).

Charles Patrick, Learn To Play The Button Accordion (Manor: Bois D'Arc Press, 1985).

Nelson G. Patrick, "The Status and Trends of Instrumental Music in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas" (M. Ed. thesis, Texas Technological College, 1947).

Becky Patterson, Hondo, My Father (Austin: Historical Publications, 1996).

Charles Peabody, Notes on Negro Music (Journal of American Folklore, 1903)

Manuel H. Peña,"The Emergence of Texas-Mexican Conjunto Music, 1935-1960: An Interpretive History" (Ph. D. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1981).

Manuel H. Peña, "The Emergence of Conjunto Music, 1935-1955," in "And Other Neighborly Names": Social Process and the Cultural Image in Texas Folklore, ed. Richard Bauman and Roger Abrahams (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).

Manuel H. Peña, "Folksongs and Social Change: Two Corridos as Interpretive Sources," Aztlán, XIII (Spring and Fall, 1982).

Manuel H. Peña, "From Rancho to Jaitón: Ethnicity and Class in Texas-Mexican Music," Ethnomusicology, XXIX (Winter, 1985).

Manuel Peña , The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999).

Manuel Peña , Música Tejana : The Cultural Economy of Artistic Transformation (College Station: Texas A&M University Press 1999).

Manuel H. Peña, The Texas Mexican Conjunto: A History of a Working-Class Music (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985).

John E. Perkins, Jr., Leon Rausch: The Voice of the Texas Playboys (Arlington: Swing Publishing, 1996).

Hannibal Peterson, The Ripeness of My Fruit (New York: Sunrise Music, 1974).

Richard A. Peterson, Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Robert W. Phillips, Singing Cowboy Stars: The Guys, The Gals, The Sidekicks (Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1994).

James D. Philp, The Encyclopedia of Country Music: Stars From Texas (Austin: Eakin Press, 2003).

John Pickering, Buddy Holly and the Picks: Rock-and-Roll's Best Kept Secret (Houston: Pickering Enterprises, 1986).

Tracy Pitcox (ed.), Hillbilly Hits Fan Club Kountry Kookin' Volume III (Brady: Hillbilly Hits Enterprises, 1997).

Sally Placksin, American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present (New York: Wideview Press, 1982).

Bill Porterfield, The Greatest Honky-Tonks in Texas (Dallas: Taylor Press, 1983).

Nolan Porterfield, Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979; 1992).

Nolan Porterfield, The Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax 1867-1948 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996).

Donald B. Powell and Mary Jo Powell, The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994).

Katherine K. Preston, Scott Joplin (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988).

Michael H. Price, Daynce of the Peckerwoods: The Badlands of Texas Music (Upper Poppleton, York: Music Mentor Books, 2006).

Steven D. Price, Take Me Home: The Rise of Country and Western Music (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974).

Charlie Pride with Jim Henderson, The Charlie Pride Story (New York: William Morrow; 1994).

E. Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes (New York: Scribner, 1996).

Barbara J. Pruett, Marty Robbins: Fast Cars and Country Music (Scarecrow Press, 1991).

Robert Pruter, The Blackwell Guide to Soul Recordings (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).

Donald W. Pugh, "Music in Frontier Houston, 1836-1876," (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1970).

Ronnie Pugh, "The Texas Troubadour: Selected Aspects of the Career of Ernest Tubb" (M.A. thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1978).

Ronnie Pugh, Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996).

Ronnie Pugh, " 'There's A Little Bit of Everything in Texas': The Texas Roots of Ernest Tubb" (paper delivered at Texas State Historical Association convention, March 7, 1997).

Todd Purifoy, Texas Red Dirt Photos Collection One (Combine, TX: Texas Red Dirt Photos, 2005).

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Buck Ramsey, And As I Rode Out In The Morning (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1992).

Frederic Ramsey, Jazzmen (St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1972).

Daniel F. Rankin Jr., "How Beautiful Heaven Must Be: The Gospel Quartet Tradition in Texas," paper delivered at annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (March 4-6, 1999).

Dick J. Reavis, Texas (Oakland, CA: Compass American Guides, Fodor's Travel Publications, 1995).

Howard Reich, Van Cliburn (Nashville: T. Nelson Publishers, 1993).

Jan Reid, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (Austin: Heidelberg Publishers, 1974).

Jan Reid, "Who Killed Redneck Rock?" Texas Monthly, IV (December 1976).

Jan Reid with Scott Newton, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Editon (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004).

Nancy Renfro and Debbie Sullivan, Puppets U.S.A., Texas: Exploring Folklore, Music, and Crafts with Puppets (Austin, Tex.: N. Renfro Studios, 1985).

José R. Reyna, "Notes on Tejano Music," Aztlán, XIII (Spring and Fall, 1982).

Jose R. Reyna, "Notes on Tejano Music," Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, Vol. 1, no. (1988), p. 33-45.

José R. Reyna, "Tejano Music as an Expression of Cultural Nationalism" Aztlán, VI (2) 24-25, 35 (1989).

Jose R. Reyna, "Tejano Music as an Expression of Cultural Nationalism," in Chicano Border Culture and Folklore (San Diego, CA: Marin Publications, 1992, p. 175-180).

James Rice, Texas Honky-Tonk Music (Austin: Eakin Press, 1985).

Clint Richmond, Selena: The Phenomenal Life and Tragic Death of the Tejano Music Queen (New York: Pocket Books, 1995).

Johannes Riedel and Santos Martinez, Jr., Dàle Kranque: Chicano Music and Art in South Texas (St. Paul, MN: University Media Resources, University of Minnesota, 1982).

Ellen Walker Rienstra and Judith Walker Linsley, Music in Texas: Frontier to 1900 (Beaumont: Beaumont Heritage Society, 1980).

Robbins Music Corporation; American Cowboy Songs With Guitar Chords: The Greatest Collection Of Cowboy Favorites (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007).

Steve Roberson, Lili Kraus: Hungarian Pianist, Texas Teacher and Personality Extraordinaire (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999).

Art Roberts, Thinkin' Out Loud (Fort Worth: Texas Radio Hall of Fame, 2002).

John Storm Roberts, Latin Jazz: The First of the Fusions, 1880s to Today (New York: Schirmer Books, 1999).

John Storm Roberts, The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Brian Robertson (comp.), The Little Blues Book (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1996).

Ronin Ro, Gangsta: Merchandising Rhymes of Violence (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996).

Carrie Cecil Williamson Rodgers, My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers (Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation Press, 1975; reprint of the 1935 ed. published by Southern Literary Institute, San Antonio; with a new introduction and chronology by Nolan Porterfield).

Maritza Romero, Selena Perez: Queen of Tejano Music (New York: Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press, 1997).

David Dorado Romo, Ringside Seat To A Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923 (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2005).

Francisco Arturo Rosales, "La Música de Houston: Fifty Years of Mexican American Music," in The Americas Review: A Review of Hispanic Literature in the USA (volume 16, no. 1; Spring 1988).

Sybil Rosen, Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008).

David S. Rotenstein, The Helena Blues: African-American Folk Music and Cultural Tourism in Helena, Arkansas (Southern Folklore, 1992).

David Rothel, The Singing Cowboys (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1978).

David Rothel, Gene Autry Book (Madison, NC: Empire Publishing Company, 1988).

Hubert Roussel, The Houston Symphony Orchestra, 1913-1971 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972).

Mike Rowe, "The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, " Blues Unlimited, No. 129 (April 1978).

Geraldo Ruiz, Selena: The Last Song (Selena: La Ultima Cancion) (New York: El Diario Books, 1995).

Ross Russell, "Illuminating the Leadbelly Legacy," Down Beat, XXXVVI (1970).

Ross Russell, Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1971).

Tom Russell, Tough Company (Sacramento, CA: Black Shark Press 2005).

Tony Russell with editorial research by Bob Pinson, assisted by the staff of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

John Ryland, How I Got the Hip Disc Jockey Blues (Duncanville: DJ Blues Publishing, 2003).

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