Works Cited Baldwin, Davarian L.. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity

Works Cited

Baldwin, Davarian L.. Chicago's new Negroes: modernity, the great migration, & Black

urban life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Print.

The excitement of Lil Armstrong traveling to Chicago and what she expected/other women did when going there is described in this book. It explains how she was attracted and mesmerized by the “magic” that happened there.” The book not only has perspectives of Armstrong, but other black women entertainers that I can use to compare to.

Dickerson, James. Just for a thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, first lady of jazz. New York:

Cooper Square Press ;, 2002. Print.

This book contains the history from her childhood in Memphis with a mother who beat her for playing 'the devil's music,' to her death onstage during a memorial jazz concert for Louis in 1971. For my project it gives a good description of Lil Hardin

Armstrong and what she did throughout her life. I can also use her experiences to see how it influenced her style of music and some songs that she made/played.

Kenney, William Howland. Chicago jazz a cultural history, 1904-1930. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1993. Print.

The book also talks about migrants like Lil’ Hardin Armstrong, who traveled up North, and her impression and fascination of Chicago. The book also gives information that will aid me in finding out about what happened with Dreamland with her husband at the time, Louis Armstrong.

Rustin, Nichole T., and Sherrie Tucker. Big ears: listening for gender in jazz studies.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Print.

Various scholars and authors came together to approach the question of gender in jazz from multiple perspectives in this book. The importance of Lil Hardin Armstrong as well as other women in Jazz was portrayed as well as comparisons between Armstrong and Austin. This will aid me in knowing what role women, specifically Armstrong, had in the Jazz age as a writer and musician.

Shaw, Arnold, and Arnold Shaw. The jazz age: popular music in the 1920's. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1987. Print.

The male dominated craft of songwriting in the twenties is discussed in this book and also how women started to come into Jazz. They start with Mabel Wayne, the first female songwriter and goes on from there. I could use these examples of female songwriter that came before Armstrong to see if they had any influence or had similar traits to Lil Armstrong’s songs.

-Roberto Molina