Music in Literature: Favorite Books Chosen by

Wayne Goins, K-State Distinguished Professor of Music

PORTRAIT OF THOMAS HART BENTON, Harry Sternberg – Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash

THE GHOST DANCE, Margery Ryerson—The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend by Ann Ingalls & Maryann Macdonald

THE PIANIST, Grant T. Reynard—Bill Evans: Everything Happens To Me—A Musical Biography by Keith Shadwick and Oscar Peterson: The Will To Swing by Gene Leeds

MAN PLAYING CELLO, John Steaurt Curry—Yo Yo Ma: A Biography by Jim Whiting

THE LAST TRUMPET, Boris Artzybasheff—Miles by Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe

LYRICIST, Mary Ann Strandell—Carole King: A Biography In Words and Pictures by Michael S. Cohen

DULCIMER & DISCORD, Bernard Joseph Steffen—The Dulcimer Book by Jean Ritchie

EVENING SONG, Fletcher Martin—Waiting For A Train: Jimmie Rodgers’ America by Mary E. Davis & Warren Zane

MUSIC, Joseph Hirsch—Harmonicas, Harps, & Heavy Breathers: The Evolution of the People’s Instrument by Kim Field

KANSAS CITY JAZZ, Bruce Handiside Mitchell—Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime To Bebop by Frank Diggs and Chuck Haddix

SHOES, CLARINET TROMBONE, Berit Bihl—Swing Dance: Fashion, Music, Culture and Key Moves by Scott Cupit

ST. FRANCIS RESTORES THE CHURCH, James Munce—Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B by Mark Vail

BURIAL VII, Karston Creightney—Roll With It: Brass Bands in The Streets of New Orleans by Matt Sakakeeny

CHARLES PLAYING CLARINET—Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman by Ross Firestone

LYRIST, Douglas Bourgeois—Joan Baez: American Folk Singer by Dhirubhai Patel

UNTITLED (BIRD) Jacqueline Bishop—Charlie Bird Count To The Beat: Baby Loves Jazz by Andy Blackman Hurwitz

HIGH NOTE, Charles Merrick Capps —Music Makers of The Blue Ridge Plateau by Blue Ridge Music Makers Guild

THE VIOLINIST, Bernard Joseph Stephen—Mozart by Maynard Solomon (book)

KOKOPELLI BOWLS, by Dolores Lewis Garcia—Songs for Kokopelli Music for Native American Flute and Silver Flute by Beverly Vance and Kokopelli: The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol by Dennis Slifer

LARGE DRAGON WHISTLE, Robert Alexander Fromme—Because The Pleasure-Dragon Whistles by

Shawn MacKenzie

Jam Session: Musical Selections from the Collection of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art May 15-August 25