Reference Materials

This bibliography has been assembled to address a gap in the recent publication of materials relating to jazz music and jazz literature. Although there are recent bibliographic tools on the subject of jazz and fiction, there is at present no comparable general aide for the study of jazz and poetry. In offering a guide to jazz poetry criticism, the following bibliography should be considered a companion piece to Sascha Feinstein’s A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry , a useful and exhaustive index of “jazz poems” in English. By bringing together materials from a wide range of sources –– including anthologies, books, dissertations, jazz journalism, critical essays, interviews, liner notes, and reviews -- we hope to provide a resource for future critical work on the subject.