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Great American Songbook

The Great American Songbook is the loosely defined canon of significant 20th-century American jazz standards, popular songs, and show tunes.

Great American Songbook Foundation

Lounge music

Show tunes

Tin Pan Alley

Traditional pop

(2005). The American Songbook: The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs. New York: Black Dog & Levental Publishers. ISBN 1-579-12448-8.

Bloom, Ken

(1992). Poets of Tin Pan Alley. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-07473-4.

Furia, Philip

(2006). (with Michael Lasser) America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley. Routledge. ISBN 0415990521.

Furia, Philip

(2010). (with Laurie Patterson) The Songs of Hollywood. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195337082.

Furia, Philip

(2015). (with Laurie Patterson) The American Song Book: The Tin Pan Alley Era. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199391882.

Furia, Philip

(2002). The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards. Penguin-Perigee Trade. ISBN 978-0-399-52744-9.

Morath, Max

(2015). The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-594-48849-8.

Yagoda, Ben

(2001). Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Boston: David R. Godine. ISBN 1-567-92147-7.

Zinsser, William

Martini in the Morning radio program featuring the Great American Songbook

PBS Special on the Great American Songbook

Popular Songwriters and The Great American Songbook

The American Songbook Preservation Society

The Great American Songbook Foundation

The Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook