Bibliography for:
Gershwin
 (MUSIC 145)
(All listings are among the holdings of the UCI library; * indicates that the book is on reserve in the Media Center Library)
I. Gershwin:
Alpert, Hollis. The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess: The Story of an American Classic. New
York: Knopf, 1990.
Armitage, Merle. George Gershwin, Man and Legend. New York: Books for Libraries Press,
1970 (orig. 1958).
Carnovale, Norbert. George Gershwin: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press, 2000.
Crawford, Richard. “George Gershwin,” in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.
London: Macmillan, 1986. *
Ewen, David. A Journey to Greatness: The Life and Music of George Gershwin. New York:
Holt, 1956.
Ewen, David. The Story of George Gershwin. New York: H. Holt & Co., 1943.
Furia, Philip. Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Gilbert, Steven E. The Music of George Gershwin. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University
Press, 1995. *
Goldberg, Isaac. George Gershwin: A Study in American Music. New York: F. Ungar
Publishing Co., 1958.
Greenberg, Rodney. George Gershwin. London: Phaidon, 1998. *
Jablonski, Edward. George Gershwin. New York: Putnam, 1962.
Jablonski, Edward. Gershwin. New York: Doubleday, 1987. *
Jablonski, Edward. Gershwin Remembered. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1992.
Jablonski, Edward. Gershwin (With a New Critical Discography). New York: Da Capo Press,
1998. *
Jablonski, Edward, and Stewart, Lawrence. The Gershwin Years. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1958.
Kendall, Alan. George Gershwin: A Biography. London: Harrap, 1987.
Levant, Oscar. A Smattering of Ignorance. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959 (orig. 1940).
Payne, Robert. Gershwin. London: R. Hale, 1962 (orig. 1960).
Peyser, Joan. The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1993.
Rosenberg, Deena. Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin.
New York: Dutton, 1991.
Schiff, David. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1997. *
Schneider, Wayne, ed. The Gershwin Style: New Looks at the Music of George Gershwin.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. *
Schwartz, Charles. “George Gershwin,” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
London: Macmillan, 1980. *
Schwartz, Charles. George Gershwin: A Selective Bibliography and Discography. Detroit:
College Music Society, 1974.
Schwartz, Charles. Gershwin: His Life and Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979 (orig.
1973). *
Snider, Lee. Porgy and Bess: A Musical Journey. London: Chappell, 1978.
Suriano, Gregory R., ed. Gershwin in His Time: A Biographical Scrapbook, 1919-1937. New
York: Gramercy Books, 1998.
II. American Music, Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, Popular Song:
Alpert, Hollis. Broadway!: 125 Years of Musical Theatre. New York: Arcade Publications,
1991.
Druxman, Michael B. The Musical: From Broadway to Hollywood. South Brunswick, N.J.: A.S.
Barnes, 1979. 
Ewen, David. The Life and Death of Tin Pan Alley: The Golden Age of American Popular
Music. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1964.
Freeman, Larry. The Melodies Linger On: Fifty Years of Popular Song. Watkins Glen, N.Y.:
Century House, 1951.
Goldberg, Isaac. Tin Pan Alley: A Chronicle of American Popular Music. New York: F. Ungar
Publishing Co., 1961.
Hamm, Charles. Yesterdays: Popular Song in America. New York: Norton, 1979.
Hyland, William G. The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, The Songs, The Performers, and Their Times:
The Golden Age of American Popular Music from 1886 to 1956. New York: D.I. Fine, 1988.
Levy, Lester S. Give Me Yesterday: American History in Song, 1890-1920. Norman,
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.
Matthew-Walker, Robert. From Broadway to Hollywood: The Musical and the Cinema.
London: Sanctuary Publishing, 1996.
Mellers, Wilfrid. Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of
American Music. New York: Knopf, 1965.
Meyer, Hazel. The Gold in Tin Pan Alley. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1958.
Mordden, Ethan. Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1983.
Mordden, Ethan. Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
Rimler, Walter. Not Fade Away: A Comparison of Jazz Age with Rock Era Pop Song
Composers. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pierian Press, 1984.
Rosenberg, Bernard. The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art. New York:
New York University Press, 1993.
Swain, Joseph Peter. The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1990.
Tawa, Nicholas T. The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910. New
York: Schirmer Books, 1990.
Whitcomb, Ian. Tin Pan Alley: A Pictorial History (1919-1939. New York: Paddington Press,
1975.
Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1972.
Wilk, Max. They’re Playing Our Song: From Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim – The
Stories Behind the Words and Music of Two Generations. New York: Atheneum, 1973.