T-BJ1 Music and dance in Texas, Oklahoma, and the Southwest. E. Clyde Whitlock, Richard Drake Saunders, ed. Hollywood, CA: Bureau of Musical Research, 1950. 256 p. ill.
T-BJ2 Music in Texas: a survey of one aspect of cultural progress. Lota M. Spell. Austin: s.n., 1936. 157 p. ill., musical examples.
T-BJ3 Texas Chapter, Music Library Association. URL: http://www3.baylor.edu/MLA/tmla/
T-BJ4 Texas Music Educators Association. URL: http://www.tmea.org/
T-BJ5 Texas Music Office, Office of the Governor. URL: http://www.governor.state.tx.us/music/
T-BJ6 Texas music industry directory: the annotated sourcebook of the Texas music industry. Austin: Texas Music Office, 1991- . Annual. ISSN 1062-6646 TexDoc G842.5 M973
T-BJ6a The handbook of Texas music. Editorial board, Roy Barkley ... [et al.]. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc. in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, c2003. viii, 393 p. ill. $45 ISBN 0-87611-193-2
T-BJ6b Lone stars and legends: the story of Texas music. Paula Felps. Plano: Republic of Texas Pr., 2001. viii, 271 p. $18.95 ISBN 1-55622-798-1
T-BJ6c Telling stories, writing songs: an album of Texas songwriters. Kathleen Hudson; fore. by Sam Phillips; introd. by B. B. King. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2001. xviii, 300 p. ill. $39.95 ISBN 0-292-73135-3
T-BJ6d Texas music. Rick Koster. New York: St. Martin’s Pr., 2000. 352 p. ill. $15.95 ISBN 0-312-25425-3
T-BJ6e The Center for Texas Music History. URL: http://www.txstate.edu/ctmh/
T-BJ6f All over the map: true heroes of Texas music. Michael Joseph Corcoran. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2005. xiv, 176 p. ill. $40 ISBN 0292709552, 9780292709553 (cloth); 0292709765, 978-0292709768 (paper); 0292796625, 9780292796621 (ebook)
T-BJ7 Billboard guide to Tejano and regional Mexican music. Ramiro Burr. New York: Billboard Books/Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999. 256 p. ill. $18.95 ISBN 0-8230-7691-1
T-BJ8 Deep Ellum and Central Track: where the Black and White worlds of Dallas converged. Alan B. Govenar, Jay F. Brakefield. Denton: Univ. of North Texas Pr., 1998. xxi, 344 p. ill., maps. $29.95 ISBN 1-57441-051-2
T-BJ9 Discography of western swing and hot string bands, 1928-1942. Cary Ginell, Kevin Coffey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 2001. xvi, 254 p. ill., 11 p. of plates. (Discographies, no. 90) $89.95 ISBN 0-313-31116-1
T-BJ10 The jazz of the Southwest: an oral history of western swing. Jean A. Boyd. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1998. x, 269 p. ill., 12 p. of plates. $17.95 ISBN 0-292-70859-9
T-BJ11 The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air: celebrating seventy years of Texas music. John Mark Dempsey; fore. by Art Greenhaw. Denton: Univ. of North Texas Pr., 2002. ix, 294 p. ill., 16 p. of plates, 1 sound disc. (Evelyn Oppenheimer ser., no. 2) $29.95 ISBN 1-57441-151-9
T-BJ12 Milton Brown and the founding of western swing. Cary Ginell; assisted by Roy Lee Brown. Urbana, IL: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1994. xxxii, 330 p. ill. (Music in American life) $29.95 ISBN 0-252-02041-3
T-BJ13 The Meyerson Symphony Center: building a dream. Laurie Shulman. Denton: Univ. of North Texas Pr., 2000. xxii, 399 p. ill. $39.95 ISBN 1-57441-082-2
T-BJ14 Honky tonk hero. Billy Joe Shaver, assisted by Brad Reagan. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2005. xiv, 191 p. ill. $19.95 ISBN 0-292-70613-8
T-BJ15 The Mexican American orquesta: music, culture, and the dialectic of conflict. Manuel Peña. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1999. xii, 350 p. $45 ISBN
0-292-76586-X
T-BJ16 Musica Tejana: history and development of Tejano music, August 2 through August 26, 1996, Dougherty Arts Center. Sharon Herfurth Beck, et al. Austin: The Texas Music Museum, 1996. 8 p.
T-BJ17 Musica tejana: the cultural economy of artistic transformation. Manuel Peña. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr., 2004. xii, 239 p. ill. $27.95 ISBN 0-89096-877-2 (cloth); ISBN 0-585-38092-9 (ebook)
T-BJ18 The roots of Texas music. Ed. by Lawrence Clayton and Joe W. Specht. College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Pr., 2003. viii, 235 p. $29.95 ISBN 1-58544-221-6 (cloth); ISBN 1-58544-997-0 (ebook) (Centennial series of the Assoc. of Former Students, Texas A&M Univ., no. 93)
T-BJ19 Tejano proud: Tex-Mex music in the twentieth century. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. College Station: Texas A& M Univ. Pr., 2004. 224 p. ill. $34.95 ISBN
1-58544-159-7
T-BJ20 Texan jazz. Dave Oliphant. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1996. ix, 481 p. ill. $50 ISBN 0-292-76044-2
T-BJ20a Texas zydeco. Charles Roger Wood. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 2006. 336 p. (Brad and Michele Moore roots music ser.) $34.95 ISBN 0-292-71258-8, 978-0-292-71258-4
T-BJ21 The Texas-Mexican conjunto: history of a working-class music. Manuel H. Peña. Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1985. 234 p. $14.95 ISBN 0-292-78080-X
T-BJ22 Turning the tune in Texas: a survey of printed Texas music from plain chant to ragtime. Charles Gilbert Davis. Nacogdoches: Stephen F. Austin State Univ., 1984. vi, 112 p.
Historically significant essays about musical activities in Texas and other parts of the Southwest. Hundreds of short biographies, with pictures, of regional musicians about whom information is scarce.
Hard to find information and examples of Texas music from ca. 400 years ago to the early 20th century. Published by request of the State Federation of Music Clubs in the Texas centennial year.
See T-AK6.
Home page for school music educators of Texas with specific information for band and choral directors. Many links of possible interest to musicians and music scholars in general.
A vast website with hundreds of links on various aspects of the music business in Texas. Special sections on ethnic music, links for music libraries, a list of Texas radio stations, a list of Texas Grammy winners, links for colleges and universities offering music degrees, a large bibliography, and a Texas musical events calendar.
Also available: http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/music/directory/tmidpdf.htm
Includes alphabetical listing of businesses with descriptions, categorized (cross referenced) list of businesses, educational institutions, classical and performing arts groups, calendar of live musical events, artists born or based in Texas, and Texas music pioneers. Copyright and tax information provided.
A vast dictionary of important people, places, and topics in the history of Texas music.
Discussion of important genres of Texas music, including a Texas Music Timeline.
Interviews with many Texas songwriters, including selected discographies for each.
A survey of genres, with a very lengthy bibliography.
Website promoting the Center at Texas State Univ. in San Marcos, with a bibliography and information about courses and publications.
Also available: netLibrary
Profiles of 32 Texas musicians in genres ranging from blues to Tejano to rockabilly. Musicians include Stevie Ray Vaughan, Selena, Ernest Tubbs, and Willie Nelson.
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Provides a historical narrative, an alphabetic encyclopedia of individual performers and ensembles, a Tex-Mex chronology, top 10 lists, and a glossary.
A monograph with a lengthy blues, jazz, gospel, and country discography. Separate Light Crust Doughboys discography.
A carefully researched, detailed discography of recordings in this predominantly Texas genre.
Interviews with numerous western swing musicians and a lengthy list of the performers.
Details the history of the legendary group. Light Crust Doughboys discographies from the early days to the present.
Seminal research on the Texas origins of western swing. Includes detailed notes, a Milton Brown timeline, and a thorough Milton Brown discography.
An aesthetically pleasing volume with much well-researched information about the planning and construction of the world-famous concert hall and about the Lay family concert organ.
Autobiographical work including complete lyrics to the recorded songs written by Billy Joe Shaver, organized in chronological order by the albums on which they appeared, with album titles, labels, and year issued.
Presents hard to find information and a vast bibliography.
A small exhibit catalog that provides a short, useful dictionary of the genres of musica tejana.
Also available: netLibrary.
A study of Tejano music organized by historical period, with selected discography and a lengthy bibliography.
Also available: netLibrary
A book of essays with succinct entries on various genres of Texas music and a number of Texas musicians of the past.
A survey which includes a detailed discography and list of Tejano music awards.
A history with an extensive bibliography and a vast index that lists many song titles and artists.
Describes how many of the most formative players and moments in modern zydeco history developed in Texas, especially Houston.
Information from many interviews done by the author.
Thesis (M.A.)
A historical survey with hard to find bibliography and information.
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Updated: 31 October 2007
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