Suggested Reading

Art, Music, Literature and Entertainment

Anderson, Fletcher. “Foundations of Musical Culture in Birmingham, Alabama,

1871-1900.” The JOURNAL of the Birmingham Historical Society,

Vol. VI, NO. 3 (January 1980).

Baggett, James L. “The Less Things Change: Charles Brooks and the Art of

Alabama Politics.” Alabama Heritage, No. 72 (Spring 2004).

Bloomer, John W. “’The Loafers’ in Birmingham in the Twenties.” The Alabama

Review, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (April 1977).

Brammell, Steve. “The Artful Life of Eleanor and Georges Bridges.” Birmingham,

Vol. 33, No. 11 (November 1993).

Brammell, Steve. “A Lost Generation of Love and Art.” Alabama, March-April-

May, 1993.

Brooks, Charles G., Jr. Best of Brooks: 38 Years of Cartoons. Birmingham: Ebsco

Media, 1986.

Callins, Jothan McKinley. “The Birmingham Jazz Community: The Role and

Contributions of Afro-Americans (Up to 1940).” M.A. Thesis, University of

Pittsburgh, 1982.

M.A. Thesis, University of Montevallo, 1979.

19th Century Birmingham, Alabama.” Ed.D. Dissertation,, University of

Alabama, 2005.

Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society, 2004.

Kinbacher, Kurt E. “The Old-Time Music Craze, 1924-1929: A National Boom

with a Local Echo in Birmingham, Alabama.” The Vulcan Historical

Review, Vol. Three (Spring 1999).

the Magic City. New York: Vantage Press, 2001.

Morris, Philip A. Vulcan and His Times. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical

Society, 1995.

Birmingham: Arlington Press, 1998.

Thompson, George Clinton. “Ezra Winter’s Murals: Birmingham Public Library.”

Alabama Heritage, No. 28 (Spring 1993),

Thompson, George Clinton. “Vulcan: Birmingham’s Man of Iron.” Alabama

Heritage, No. 20 (Spring 1991).

Whiting, Marvin Yeomans (ed). “Landmark: Giuseppe Moretti.” The JOURNAL

of the Birmingham Historical Society, Vol. 9, No. 1 (December 1985).

Whitmire, Cecil and Jeannie Hanks. The Alabama Theatre: Showplace of the South.

Birmingham: Birmingham Landmarks, 2002.

Willard, Jennifer M. “Giuseppe Moretti.” Alabama Heritage, No. 20 (Spring 1991).