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Bibliography
for the
Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
Following is a listing of books, articles, scores, and electronic resources which were used as sources in the project. Highlighted
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The listing is arranged as follows:
Materials relating to the Grateful Dead
Note: The exhaustive bibliography, The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography,
by yours truly and Rob Weiner, was published in May, 1997, by Greenwood Press.
- Books: (note: for songbooks, see the Songbook Bibliography.
- Dodd, David and Diana Spaulding, editors. The Grateful Dead Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Gans, David.(David Gans' home page)
Conversations with the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book..
New York: Citadel Underground, 1991. Reissued March 2002, Da Capo Press.
- Gans, David.(David Gans' home page)
Playing in the Band: an Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
- Garcia: the Rolling Stone Interview
by Charles Reich and Jann Wenner ; Plus a Stoned Sunday Rap with
Jerry, Charles and Mountain Girl..
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972.
- Hart, Mickey, with Jay Stevens and Fredric Lieberman.
Drumming at the Edge of Magic: a Journey Into the Spirit of Percussion.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.
- Hunter, Robert.
A Box of Rain: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter.
New York: Viking, 1991.
- Hunter, Robert.
A Box of Rain Second edition, with
additional lyrics.
NY: Penguin, 1993.
- Hunter, Robert.
Night Cadre.
New York: Viking, 1991.
- Hunter, Robert.
Sentinel.
New York: Penguin, 1993.
- Jackson, Blair.
Goin' Down the Road : A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion.
New York: Crown, 1992.
- Jackson, Blair.
Grateful Dead: the Music Never Stopped.
New York: Delilah, 1983.
(Discography: p. 229-248.)
- Scott, John W., Mike Dolgushkin, and Stu Nixon.
Deadbase XI: The Complete Guide to...
Hanover, NH: DeadBase, 1999.
- Scully, Rock, with David Dalton.
Living With the Dead : Twenty Years on...
NY: Little, Brown: 1995.
- Shenk, David, and Steve Silberman.
Skeleton Key : A Dictionary for Deadheads
New York: Doubleday, 1994.
- Womack, David.
The Aesthetics of the Dead.
Palo Alto: Flying Public Press, 1991.
- Periodicals
- Electronic Resources
Anthologies and collections of songs and poems
- Books
- Beall, Pamela.
Wee Sing Silly Songs.
Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan, 1982.
- Botkin, B. A.
A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People.
New York: Crown, 1944.
- Bronson, Bertrand Harris, ed.
The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
- Burns, Robert.
Poems and Songs.
London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
- Child, Francis James.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.
New York: Dover, 1965. (Reprint of Houghton Mifflin edition of
1882-1898.)
- Courlander, Harold.
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore.
New York: Crown, 1976.
- Dance, Daryl Cumber.
Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
- Eliot, T. S.
Collected Poems 1909-1962.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.
- Greek Lyric Poetry.
Translated by Willis Barnstone.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1962.
- Han-shan.
Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan.
Translated and with an introduction by Burton Watson.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. First published 1962 by Grove Press.
(see also: Gary Snyder's translations of the Han-shan poems.)
- Johnson, James Weldon, and J. Rosamond Johnson.
The Books of American Negro Spirituals: Including The
Books of American Negro Spirituals and The Second Book of Negro
Spirituals.
New York: Viking, 1969.
- Jones, Bessie, and Bess Lomax Hawes.
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American
Heritage.
NY: Harper & Row, 1972.
- Lomax, Alan.
The Folk Songs of North America In the English Language.
NY: Doubleday, 1960.
- Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax, compilers.
American Ballads and Folk Songs.
NY: Macmillan, 1934.
- Mother Goose.
The Annotated Mother Goose: nursery rhymes old and new.
Arranged and explained by William S. Baring-Gould and Ceil Baring-Gould.
Illustrated by Walter Crane [and others].
New York: Bramhall House, 1962.
- Mother Goose.
The Real Mother Goose.
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1916.
- New Lost City Ramblers Song Book.
edited by John Cohen and Mike Seeger.
NY: Oak, 1964.
- A Nonsense Anthology.
Collected by Carolyn Wells.
NY: Scribner's, 1902.
- Opie, Iona Archibald, and Peter Opie, editors.
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951
- The Oxford Book of Ballads.
Edited by James Kinsley.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
- The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse.
Chosen by H.J.C. Grierson and G. Bullough.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934.
- Petersen, Robert M.
Alleys of the Heart: the Collected Poems of Robert M. Petersen.
Edited by Alan Trist.
Eugene, OR: Hulogos'i, 1988.
- Roberts, Leonard Ward.
In the Pine: Selected Kentucky Folksongs.
Pikeville, KY: Pikeville College Press, 1978.
- Sackheim, Eric.
The Blues Line: a Collection of Blues Lyrics.
NY: Grossman, 1969.
- Sharp, Cecil James, 1859-1924. (compiler)
English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians:
comprising two hundred and seventy-three songs and ballads with
nine hundred and sixty-eight tunes.. Including
thirty-nine tunes contributed by Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Maud Karpeles.
London: Oxford University Press, 1932.
- Silber, Irwin, 1925-
Folksinger's Wordbook.
Woodstock, NY: Oak Publications, 1973.
- Snyder, Gary.
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems.
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1990. (Cold Mountain Poems first
published in the Evergreen Review, no. 6, 1958.)
- Wheeler, Mary, comp.
Roustabout Songs: A Collection of Ohio River Valley Songs.
Nwew York: Remick Music Corp., 1939.
- White, Newman Ivey.
American Negro Folk-Songs.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1928.
- Electronic Resources
Reference Works
- Books
- American Places Dictionary: a Guide to 45,000 Populated
Places, Natural Features, and Other Places in the United States.
Edited by Frank R. Abate.
Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1994.
- Anchor Bible Dictionary.
New York: Doubleday, 1992.
- Apostolos-Cappadona.
The Dictionary of Christian Art.
New York: Continuum, 1994.
- Benet, William Rose.
The Reader's Encyclopedia .
2nd edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965.
- Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American
Literature.
Edited by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger.
NY: HarperCollins, 1991.
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
New York: Harper and Row, 1968.
- Cirlot, J. E.
A Dictionary of Symbols.
New York, Philosophical Library, 1971.
- Cities of the World...
Monica M. Hubbard and Beverly Baer, editors.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
- Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States
and Canada: a Dictionary of Places.
Edited by Archie Hobson.
NY: Cambridge, 1995.
- Coats, Alice M.
Flowers and Their Histories.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
- Cruden, Alexander.
Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: 1930.
- Cudden, J.A.
A Dictionary of Literary Terms.
NY: Doubleday, 1977.
- The Dictionary of American Regional English.
Frederic G. Cassidy, chief editor.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1985-
- A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical
Principles.
Edited by Mitford M. Mathews.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951.
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas:
Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas.
Philip P. Wiener, editor in chief.
New York: Scribner's, 1973.
- Dictionary of the Middle Ages.
Joseph R. Strayer, editor in chief.
NY: Scribner's, 1982.
- Dunning, John.
Tune in Yesterday: the
Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1925-1976.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
- The Encyclopedia of Religion.
Mircea Eliade, editor in chief.
NY: MacMillan, 1987.
- Evans, Tom.
Guitars: Music, History, Construction, and Players from
the Renaissance to Rock.
New York: Facts on File, 1977.
- Flexner, Stuart Berg.
I Hear America Talking: an Illustrated Treasury of American Words
and Phrases.
NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976.
- The Folklore of World Holidays.
Margaret Read MacDonald, editor.
Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.
- Fuld, James J.
The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular and Folk.
New York: Crown, 1966.
- Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary
of Folklore, Mythology and Legend.
Maria Leach, editor. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1972.
- The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New
Testaments. Translated Out of the Original Tongues, with the Former Translations
Diligently Compared and Revised.
Cleveland: World Publ., n.d.
- The Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United
States and Canada
Edited by Kelsie B. Harder.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976.
- Lax, Roger, and Frederick Smith.
The Great Song Thesaurus.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989.
- Manguel, Alberto, and Gianni Guadalupi.
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.
New York: Macmillan, 1980.
- Morris, William and Mary.
Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins
NY: Harper & Row, 1962.
- The New Century Cyclopedia of Names.
Edited by Clarence L. Barnhart.
NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954.
- The New Grove Dictionary of American
Music.
Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie.
New York, N.Y.: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986.
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Edited by Barry Kernfeld.
New York, N.Y.: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1988.
- The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry
and Poetics.
Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors.
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1993
- The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan.
NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
- The Oxford English Dictionary. Second edition.
Prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
- Partridge, Eric.
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English : Colloquialisms
and Catch-phrases, Solecisms and Catachreses, Nicknames and Vulgarisms.
NY: MacMillan, 1984.
- Picturesque Expressions: a Thematic Dictionary.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1980.
- Rail Talk: a Lexicon of Railroad Language.
Collected and edited by James H. Beck. Gretna, Nebraska: James Pub., 1978.
- Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang.
J. E. Lighter, Editor.
NY: Random House, 1994-
- The Rolling Stone Illustrated
History of Rock & Roll: the Definitive History of the Most
Important Artists and Their Music.
Edited by Anthony DeCurtis and James Henke, with Holly
George-Warren. Original Editor: Jim Miller.
New York: Random House, 1992.
- The Rolling Stone Rock 'n' Roll Reader.
Edited by Ben Fong-Torres.
New York: Bantam, 1974.
- Stewart, George R.
American Given Names: Their Origin and History in the Context of
the English Language.
New York: Oxford, 1979.
- Tergit, Gabriele.
Flowers Through the Ages.
London: Oswald Wolff, 1961.
- Tolman, Beth, and Ralph Page.
The Country Dance Book: the
Old-Fashioned Square Dance, Its History, Lore, Variations & Its
Callers. Complete & Joyful Instructions.
Weston, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1937.
- Wilder, Alec.
American Popular Song: the Great Innovators, 1900-1950.
New York: Oxford, 1972.
- The WPA Guide to California.
The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s California. Written and compiled by
the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the
State of California.
New York: Pantheon, 1984. (Originally copyrighted 1939 by Mabel R. Gillis,
California State Librarian)
- Electronic Resources
Miscellanceous works
- Abrahams, Roger D.
Deep Down In the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore
From the Streets of Philadelphia.
Chicago: Aldine, 1970.
- Abrahams, Roger D.
Positively Black.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970.
- Arrien, Angeles.
The Tarot Handbook: Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols.
Sonoma, Calif.: Arcus, 1987.
- Asher, Levi.
Literary Kicks.
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"The Hat of the West: John B. and His Stetson,"
in Western Horseman, May, 1993, p. 18-20.
- Caesar, Irving, and Vincent Youmans.
Tea for Two
New York: Harms, 1924. (Sheet music)
- Carroll, Lewis.
The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland &
Through the Looking Glass. With an introduction and
notes by Martin Gardner. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1960.
- Clunn, Harold P.
The Face of London.
Spring Books, 1956.
- Cooper, B. Lee.
Popular Music Perspectives: Ideas, Themes, and Patterns
in Contemporary Lyrics.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1991.
- Crowley, Aleister.
The Book of Thoth: a Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Being the Equinox Volume III No. V.
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1969. [Originally published 1944]
- Cullen, Tom.
When London Walked in Terror.
1965.
- Eckert, Allan W. (Text)
The Owls of North America (North of Mexico): All the Species
and Subspecies Illustrated in Color and Fully Described.
Paintings and drawings by Karl E. Karalus.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
- Grahame, Kenneth.
The Wind in the Willows.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
- Green, Percy B.
A History of Nursery Rhymes.
London: Greening & Co., 1899.
- Griffin, Rick.
Rick Griffin. Written by Gordon McClelland.
New York: Perigree, 1980.
- Jasen, David A.
Rags and Ragtime: a Musical History.
New York : Dover, 1989, 1978.
- Jerde, Judith.
Encyclopedia of Textiles.
New York: Facts on File, 1992.
- Jones, Arthur C.
Wade in the Water: the Wisdom of the Spirituals.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
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Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling.
New York: U.S. Games Systems, 1970.
- Knight, Stephen.
Jack the Ripper.
1976.
- Kurten, Bjorn, and Elaine Anderson.
Pleistocene Mammals of North America.
NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1980.
- Levine, Lawrence W.
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought
from Slavery to Freedom.
NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1977.
- Lewis, Al; Larry Stock, and Vincent Rose.
Blueberry Hill.
New York: Chappell, 1940. (Sheet music)
- Lydon, Michael.
Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock 'n' Roll Pantheon.
NY: Dial, 1971.
- Marschall, Richard.
America's Great Comic-Strip Artists.
NY: Abbeville, 1989.
- Oman, Charles.
The Great Revolt of 1381.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1969.
- Robinson, Jerry.
The Comics: an Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art.
NY: Putnam's, 1974.
- Royce, Anya Peterson.
The Anthropology of Dance.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1977.
- Rumbelow, Donald.
The Complete Jack the Ripper.
1975.
- Shannon, Bob.
Behind the Hits.
New York: Warner, 1986.
- Spiering, Frank.
Prince Jack.
1978.
- Waldo, Terry.
This is Ragtime.
New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, 1991, 1976.
- Weisberger, Bernard A., 1922-
They Gathered at the River: the Story of the Great
Revivalists and their Impact Upon Religion in America.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.
- Wolfe, Tom.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Last modified: December 21, 2001.
David Dodd
University of California, Santa Cruz.