Collection Highlights

In addition to the new items reports you can download on a bi-monthly basis from this blog, the following list details a few highlights of reference materials that have recently been added to the collection:

• Everett, William A. Historical dictionary of the Broadway musical. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008. [ML102.M88 E94 2008]
  
• Ford, Robert. A blues bibliography. 2nd edition; New York: Routledge, 2007. [ML128.B49 F67 2007]
• Hoffman, Frank W. Chronology of American popular music, 1900-2000. New York: Routledge, 2008. [ML3477.H64 2008]
• The John Coltrane reference. New York: Routledge, 2008. [ML156.7.C58 J64 2008]
  
• Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: an encyclopedic history V.2. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004-. [ML199.M858 2004 V.2]
  
• Rosewall, Michael. Directory of choral-orchestral music. New York: Routledge, 2007. [ML128.C48 R67 2007]
• The Rough guide to world music. London: Rough Guides, 2006. [ML102.W67 W67 2006]
  
• Tyler, Don. Hit songs, 1900-1955: American popular music of the pre-rock era. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007. [ML128.P63 T95 2007]