The 1920s: The Arts: Publications

THE 1920s: THE ARTS: PUBLICATIONS

General Reference

Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties (New York: Harper, 1931);

Charles and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization (New York: Macmillan, 1927);

H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series —Sixth Series (New York: Knopf, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927);

Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1927);

Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 3 volumes (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927-1930);

Gilbert Seldes, The Seven Lively Arts (New York: Harper, 1924);

Harold Stearns, Civilization in the United States (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922);

Mark Sullivan, Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925 (New York: Scribners, 1926-1935).

Movies

Eustace Hale Ball, The Art of the Photoplay, second edition (New York: Veritas, 1919);

Iris Barry, Let's Go to the Movies (New York: Payson & Clarke, 1926);

Daniel Blum, A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1953);

Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By … (New York: Knopf, 1968);

John Emerson and Anita Loos, Breaking Into the Movies (New York: McCann, 1921);

Emerson and Loos, How to Write Photoplays (New York: McCann, 1990);

Samuel Goldwyn, Behind the Screen (New York Doran, 1923);

Charles Harpole, ed., History of the American Cinema, 4 volumes to date (New York: Macmillan, 1990).

Music

Samuel B. Charters, Jazz, New Orleans, 1885-1963, revised edition (New York: Oak, 1963);

Frank Driggs, Black Beauty, White Heat: A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950 (New York: Morrow, 1982);

Philip Furia, The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990);

James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking, 1925);

Neil Leonard, Jazz and the White Americans: The Acceptance of a New Art Form (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962);

Alan Lomax, Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz, second edition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973);

H. W. Odom and G. B. Johnson, The Negro and His Songs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1925);

Brian Priestley, Jazz on Record: A History (New York: Billboard Books, 1991);

Gunther Schuller, Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968);

Arnold Shaw, The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987);

Frank Tirro, Jazz: A History (New York: Norton, 1977);

Annual Review of Jazz Studies, periodical;

Journal of Jazz Studies, periodical.

Literature

Randolph Bourne, The History of a Literary Radical (New York: Huebsch, 1920);

Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade: A Panorama of the Writers, Publishers, and Litterateurs of the 1920's (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971);

Irene and Allen Cleaton, Books and Battles of the Twenties (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937);

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995);

Norman Foerster, Humanism and America (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930);

Foerster, ed. The Reinterpretation of American Literature: Some Contributions Toward the Understanding of its Historical Development (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928);

Frederic Hoffman, The Twenties, revised edition (New York: Collier, 1962);

Jacob Zeitlin, Life and Letters of Stuart P, Sherman (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929);

The American Mercury, periodical;

Publishers' Weekly, periodical;

The Smart Set, periodical;

Vanity Fair, periodical.

Theater

Daniel C. Blum, A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1976, fourth edition (New York: Crown, 1977);

Gerald M. Boardman, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992);

Walter Prichard Eaton, The Theatre Guild: The First Ten Years (Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries, 1970);

Richard Lewine, Encyclopedia of Theatre Music (New York: Random House, 1961);

Oral S. Load and Edwin Mims Jr., The American Stage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929);

Kenneth Macgowan, Footlights Across America (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929);

George Jean Nathan, The Critic and the Drama (New York: Knopf, 1922);

Bernard Rosenberg, The Broadway Musical: A Collaboration in Commerce and Art (New York: New York University Press, 1993);

Joseph P. Swain, The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990);

Alexander Woollcott, Enchanted Aisles (New York: Putnam, 1924);

Variety, periodical.

Art

Milton W. Brown, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955);

S. B. Cheney, Primer of Modem Art (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924);

Cedric Dover, American Negro Art (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1960);

Katherine Dreier, Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art: 1920 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950);

Dreier, Western Art and the New Era; An Introduction to Modern Art (New York: Brentano's, 1923);

C. B. Ely, The Modern Tendency in American Painting (New York: Sherman, 1925);

Martin Friedman, The Precisionist View in American Art (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1960);

W. Pach, Modern Art in America (New York: Kraushaar Galleries, 1928);

Paul Rosenfeld, Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1924);

Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture, revised edition (New York: Macmillan, 1924);

Thomas E. Tallmadge, The Story of American Architecture (New York: Norton, 1927);

Dickran Tashjiaru, Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1975);

Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1922);

Forbes Watson, American Printing Today (Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Arts, 1929);

Mahonri Sharp Young, Early American Moderns: Painters of the Stieglitz Group (New York: Watson-Guptill, 1974);

Art in America, periodical;

Art News, periodical.