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1920S Sports and Entertainment Baseball – Boxing – Jazz – Movies – Radio - Theatre 1920s Sports and Entertainment Baseball – Boxing – Jazz – Movies – Radio - Theatre Baseball Call Title Author Number Ebook Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and Burk American Baseball to 1920 Ebook Mysteries from Baseball’s Past: Investigations of Louisa Nine Unsettled Questions R 796 Biographical Dictionary of American Sports Porter P83b 796.09 Professional Sports Team Histories L11p 796.3 Creating the National Pastime: Baseball White W58c Transforms Itself 1903-1953 796.357 Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History Berlage B45w 796.357 The Days of Mr. McGraw Durso D93d 796.357 Big Leagues: Professional Baseball, Football, and Fox F83b Basketball in National Memory 796.357 The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Reichler R27b5 Official Record of Major League Baseball 796.357 Babe: The Legend Comes to Life Creamer R93Yc 796.357 “If Only You Were White:” The Life of Leroy Spivey Sp4i “Satchel” Paige 796.357 Baseballs Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Waldo W14b Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures 796.357 Baseball: An Illustrated History Ward W21b Boxing Call Title Author Number 796.8 When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, Evensen Ev2w and Storytelling in the Jazz Age 796.8 R54j Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler Roberts Call Title Author Number 796.83 Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset Cavanaugh C31t of the Great Jack Dempsey 796.83 Boxing: A Concise History of the Sweet Science Gems G28B 796.83 A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Kahn K12a Roaring ‘20s Jazz Call Title Author Number Ebook California Soul: Music of African Americans in the DjeDje West Ebook Women & Music: A History Pendle Ebook Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener’s Sultanof Companion R 973.91 Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the end of Ciment C49e World War I to the Great Crash 780.92 King of ragtime: Scott Joplin and his era Berlin B45K 780.973 Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz Blesh B61s2 780.973 The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History Collier C69m 781.57 Jazz in the Sixties: The Expansion of Musical Budds B85j Resources and Techniques 781.57 Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz Chilton C43Ys 781.57 Jazz Talk Gold G56j 781.57 Black Music Baraka J72bL 781.57 Free Jazz Jost J79f 781.57 The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Ogren Og7j Meaning of Jazz 781.57 The Jazz Record Book Smith Sm5j 781.57 A Study of Jazz Tanner T15s5 Call Title Author Number 781.57 Where’s the Melody Williams W67w 781.65 A Trumpet Around the Corner Charters C38t 781.65 Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A Driggs D83k History 781.65 Jazz Giddins G36j 781.65 Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930 Kenney K37c 781.65 Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Sudhalter Su2L Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945 781.655 Why Jazz Happened Myers M99w 781.7 Black Music in America: A History through its Haskins H27b People 784 Ew3p Panorama of American Popular Music: The Story Ewen of Our National Ballads and Folk Songs, the Songs of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood, New Orleans Jazz, Swing and Symphonic Jazz 784.4 K63t Twenty Years on Wheels Kirk 784.65 Jazz Makers: Vanguards of Sound Shipton Sh6j 785.0666 A Thousand Golden Horns: The Exciting Age of Fernett F39t America’s Greatest Dance Bands 785.0672 The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band Brunn B83s 785.42 Jelly Roll, Jabbo and Fats: 19 Portraits in Jazz Balliett B21j 785.42 In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz Marquis B63Ym 785.42 Inside Jazz Feather F31i 785.42 Jazz; New Perspectives on the History of Jazz Hentoff H39j 785.42 A Pictorial History of Jazz; People and Places Keepnews K25p from New Orleans to Modern Jazz 785.42 Storyville to Harlem: Fifty Years in the Jazz Longstreet L86s Scene 785.42 The Jazz Titans, Including ‘the Parlance of Hip’ Reisner R27j Call Title Author Number 785.42 Jazz, Hot and Hybrid Sargeant Sa7j 785.42 A History of Jazz in America Ulanov UL1h 788.6 B96j Jazz from the Beginning Bushell 813 F57j Jazz Age Fitzgerald 917.91 The Jazz Age: The 20’s T48j 944.361 When Paris sizzled: The 1920s Paris of McAuliffe M11w Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and their friends Movies Call Title Author Number Ebook Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in Wagner American Silent Film 384.806 The Warner Bros. Story Hirschhorn H61w 384.8 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Schickel Sch3y Story 791.4 The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of the Knight K74L Movies 791.4 Merely Colossal Mayer M45m 791.43 Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: Bogle B63t An Interpretative History of Blacks in American Films 791.43 A History of Film Ellis EL5h 791.43 The Innocent Eye: The Life of Robert J. Calder- F59Yc Flaherty Marshall 791.43 Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hallett H15g Hollywood 791.43 Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance: A Pictorial History of Kobal K79g Film Musicals 791.43 The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Leff L52d Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920’s to the 1960’s Call Title Author Number 791.43 The Movies in Our Midst: Documents in the Mast M39m Cultural History of Film in America 791.43 The Movies: An American Idiom: Readings in McClure M13m Social History of the American Motion Picture 791.43 Films of the 1920’s MacCann M19f 791.43 The American Movies: The History, Films, Michael M58a Awards: A Pictorial Encyclopedia 791.43 Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Rollins R65h Cultural Context 791.43 Memo from David O. Selznick Selznick Se4m 791.4309 The Movies in the Age of Innocence Wagenknecht W12m 940.31 The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War VHS Am3m Radio Call Title Author Number 331.88 The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Roscigno R71v Textile Strikes, 1929-1934 384.54 History of Radio to 1926 Archer Ar2h 384.54 Historical Dictionary of American Radio Godfrey G54h 384.54 A Thirty-year History of Programs Carried on Summers Su6t National Radio Networks in the United States, 1926-1956 609 M33Yd Marconi: The Man and His Wireless Dunlap 621.384 Sound and Fury Chase C38s 659.142 A Decade of Radio Advertising Hettinger H47d 791.44 The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950 Buxton B98b 791.44 Don’t Touch That Dial!: Radio Programming in MacDonald M14d American Life, 1920-1960 791.44 A Pictorial History of Radio Settel Se4p Theatre Call Title Author Number 792 B22c The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre Banham 792 B64a American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Bordman Drama 1914-1930 792 H87s The Story of Theatre, A Short History of Hughes Theatrical Art from Its Beginnings to the Present 792 T85f Forgotten Leading Ladies of the American Turner Theatre: Lives of Eight Female Players, Playwrights, Directors, Managers, and Activists of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries 792.03 The Oxford Companion to the Theatre Hartnoll H25o 792.09 The Concise History of the Theatre Hartnoll H25c 792.097 The Oxford Companion to the American Theatre Bordman B64o 792.0973 A Pictorial History of the American Theatre: 100 Blum B62p Years 1860-1960 792.0973 The American Theatre Mordden M81a 822.912 The Turbulent Thirties: A Further Decade of the Trewin T72t Theatre Updated 9/10/2021 .
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