The 1950s: The Arts: Publications

THE 1950s: THE ARTS: PUBLICATIONS

Leo Lowenthai, Literature, Popular Culture, and Society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1961);

Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White, eds., Mass Culture: Popular Arts in America (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1957).

Movies

George Bluestone, Novels into Film (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957);

George N. Fenin and William K. Everson, The Western (New York: Orion, 1962);

Penelope Houston, The Contemporary Cinema, 1945-1963 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1963);

Houston, Introduction to the Art of the Movies (New York: Noonday Press, 1960);

Siegfried Kracauer, Theory of Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960);

Film Culture, periodical;

Photoplay, periodical.

Music

Whitney Balliert, The Sound of Surprise: 46 Pieces on Jazz (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1959);

Rudi Blesh, Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz second edition (New York: Knopf, 1958);

Steve Chapie, Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1977);

Samuel B. Charters and Leonard Kunstadt, Jazz: A History of the New York Scene (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962);

Charters, Jazz, New Orleans, 1885-1963. Rev. ed. (New York: Oak, 1963);

Charters and Kunstadt, The New Edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz (New York: Horizon Press, 1960);

Jonathan Eisen, The Age of Rock: Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution: A Reader (New York: Random House, 1969);

Colin Escott Good Rockin Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll (New York: St. Martin's, 1991).

David Ewan, The Complete Book of 20th Century Music (Englewood Clifs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1959);

Ewan, History of Popular Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1961);

Ewan, The New Book of Modern Composers, (New York: Knopf, 1961);

Andre Hodeir, Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence (New York: Grove Press, 1956);

Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer, Jr., A Pictoral History of Jazz second revised edition (New York: Crown, 1966);

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

Alan P. Merriam and Robert J. Benford, A Bibliography of Jazz 1954. Reprint. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970);

Henry Pleasants, The Agony of Modern (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955);

Joseph Machlis, Introduction to Contemporary Music (New York: Norton, 1961);

Russell Sanjet, From Print to Plastic: Publishing and Promoting America's Popular Music 1900-1980 (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1983);

Gilbert Seldes, The Public Arts (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956);

Country Song Roundup, periodical;

Down Beat, periodical;

Hit Parader, periodical;

Opera News, periodical;

Jazz, periodical.

Literature

Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg, eds., The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men (New York: Citadel, 1958);

Leslie Fiedler, An End To Innocence (Boston: Beacon, 1955);

Anne Lyon Haight, Banned Books (New York: Bowker, 1955);

Alfred Kazin, Bright Book of Life, (Boston: Little Brown, 1973);

Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians (New York: Messner, 1959);

Frederick Karl, American Fictions, 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation (New York: Harper, 1983);

Dan Wakefield, New York in the Fifties (Boston: Houghton Miflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992);

Publishers Weekly, periodical

Art

Frank O'Hara, Art Chronicles, 1954-1966 (New York: Braziller, 1975);

Serge Guibaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1983);

Irving Sandier, The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (New York: Harper & Row, 1978);

Artnews, periodical;

Art in America, periodical.