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Ozarks Traditional Music: Books

A guide to research materials and special collections (including the Max Hunter Collection and the Gordon McCann Collection) available at the Missouri State University library

Fiddling Histories - Regional Styles in the United States

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old-Time Fiddlers in Missouri by Howard Wight Marshall
Publication Date: 2012
Fiddler's Dream: Old-Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century Missouri by HOward Wight Marshall
Publication Date: 2017
Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present by Howard Wight Marshall
Call Number: 2022
Ozark Old-Time Fiddling by Judy Mae Warner
Publication Date: 2010
Farmhouse Fiddlers: Music & Dance Traditions in the Rural Midwest by Philip Martin
Publication Date: 2006
Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests by Chris Goertzen
Publication Date: 2008
Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Traditions by Erynn Marshall
Publication Date: 2006
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels and the History of American Fiddling by Chris Goertzen
Publication Date: 2017
American Antebellum Fiddling by Chris Goertzen
Publication Date: 2020
North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide by Drew Beisswenger
Publication Date: 2011

General Missouri Music Histories

The Ozark's Greatest Hits: A Photo History of Music in the Ozarks by Wayne Glenn
Publication Date: 2005
Missouri Music by Ernst C. Krohn
Publication Date: 1971
200 Memorable Missouri Music Moments: Commentary, Historical Photographs & Video Clips by Michael J. Budds
Publication Date: 2021

Biographies

A Singer and Her Songs: Almeda Riddle's Book of Ballads by Roger D. Abrahams (editor)
Publication Date: 1970
Whittlin' and Fiddlin' My Own Way by Violet Hensley (with Randall Franks)
Publication Date: 2014
Old-Time Fiddling: Hal Sappington, Missouri Fiddler by R.M. Kinder and Kristine Lowe-Martin
Call Number: Meyer Special Collections
Publication Date: 2012

Louisiana Fiddlers by Ron Yule
Publication Date: 2009
A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman by Gregory Hansen
Publication Date: 2007
Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine by Drew Beisswenger
Publication Date: 2002

Popular Music in the Ozarks

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils on Record: A Narrative Discography by Michael Kuelker
Publication Date: 2022
It Shined: The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils by Michael Supe Granda
Publication Date: 2008
My Life Before, During and After Elvis Presley by John Wilkinson (with Nick Moretti)
Publication Date: 2006
A Satisfied Mind: The Country Music Life of Porter Wagoner by Steve Eng
Publication Date: 1992
Buddy Baker: Big Band Arranger, Disney Legend & Musical Genuius by Ben Ohmart
Publication Date: 2016
Jane Froman: Missouri's First Lady of Song by Ilene Stone
Publication Date: 2005
Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music by Ali Welky and Mike Keckhaver (editors)
Publication Date: 2013
Our Own Sweet Sounds: A Celebration of Popular Music in Arkansas by Robert Cochran
Publication Date: 2005
Blues Music in Arkansas by Louis Guida, Lorenzo Thomas, and Cheryl Cohen
Publication Date: 1982

Branson, Missouri

The Presley Family Story: The First 74 Years by Ron Marr
Publication Date: 2008
Branson's Entertainment Pioneers by Robert McGill
Publication Date: 2011
The Heart of Branson: The Entertaining Families of America's Live Music Show Capital by Arline Chandler
Publication Date: 2010
Branson, MO: Las Vegas of the Ozarks by Henry Horenstein
Publication Date: 1998
Branson Backstage: A Photographic Look at the Branson Experience
Publication Date: 1995
The Branson, Missouri Scrapbook: A Guide to the New Capital of Country Music by Scott Faragher
Publication Date: 1994
Live at the Ozark Opry by Dan William Peek
Publication Date: 2010

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