Recent Acquisitions to the Heckscher Foundation Resource Center @ Lincoln Center Institute

More than 10,000 and growing! Click here to see a list of resources added to our collection during June.
June Highlight
O’Brien, Lucy
She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul
London: Continuum, 2002
Women have always been making and consuming music. But how have women negotiated the genres and sub-genres of the music industry [...]

Baddest of the Bad

Jackson, Buzzy
A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2005.
It was Ma Rainey’s piano player, Thomas Dorsey, who said, “The blues is a good woman feeling bad” (xiii). Author Buzzy Jackson, however, explores the blues through an entirely different lens, one which sheds light [...]

The Road Trip Remix

Corcoran, Michael
All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005
Did you know that Lubbock’s own Buddy Holly and the Crickets was the first self-contained and independent rock combo to write, produce, perform, and arrange their own records? Were you aware that The Beatles’s name was created in homage to [...]