Embedded Files
Sources used to compile honoree profiles, historical timelines, and genre overviews
Early Pittsburgh Music History
Music and Musicians of Pennsylvania -Gertrude Martin Rohrer (1940)
The Early Development of Music in Pittsburgh -by Edward Gladstone Bayhnm 1944 (University of Pittsburgh Dissertation)
Frontier Musicians on the Connoquenissing, Wabash, and Ohio -Richard D . Wetzel (1976)
Pittsburgh in Stages by Lynne Conner (2007)
The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania - By Solon Justus Buck, Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck
Keeping house: women's lives in western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850 By Virginia K. Bartlett
Jazz History
Jazz on the River - William Howland Kenney
The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh - Editted by Laurence Glascow
“The Crossroads of the World”: A Social and Cultural History of Jazz in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1920-1970 by Colter Harper 2011
A New History of Jazz - Alyn Shipton
Pittsburgh Jazz Recordings and Beyond, 1950-1985 by Carlos E. Peña B.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1998
Pittsburgh Courier Archives
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Archives
Pittsburgh Music
Key to the City: Volume 1: 1928-1954 By Dave Goodrich
Pittsburgh History
History of Pittsburgh and Environs - by George Thorton Fleming, American Historical Society Inc - 1922
The Point of Pittsburgh - Charles McCollestor, 2009
General Music References
Billboard Magazine
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Music
New York Times Article Archieve
Naxos Classical Music Directory
Wikipedia - Actors, Musicians from Pittsburgh
Artist Biographies
Stephen Foster - Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture -Ken Emerson 1988
Lena Horne -Stormy Weather - The Life of Lena Horne - By James Gavin
Tommy James - Me, the Mob, and the Music Business -One Hellva Ride -Tommy James with Martin Fitzpatrick 2010
Oscar Levant - A Talent for Genius - Sam Kashner and Nacy Schoenberger 1994
Henry Mancini - Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini by Henry Mancini and Gene Lees (Dec 17, 2001)
Dean Martin - Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches (Apr 13, 1999)
Billy Strayhorn- Lush Life - Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
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