These are all good resources for learning more about the music from the first half of the twentieth century. Some are no longer in print, but might be obtained used through the usual online sources.
Short History of Tin Pan Alley Video
| Book Title | Author | Date |
| A Fine Romance, Jewish Songwriters, American Songs | David Lehman | 2009 |
| A Pocketfull of Dreams The Early Years (1903-1940) |
Bing Crosby | 2001 |
| A Ship Without a Sail (Life of Lorenz Hart) | Gary Marmorstein | 2013 |
| A Song For The Season | Mary Steyn | 2008 |
| America’s Songs (The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley | Philip Fura/Michael Lasser | 2006 |
| American Popular Song, The Great Innovators 1900-1950 | Alec Wilder | 1972 |
| As Thousands Cheer – The Life of Irving Berlin | Laurence Bergreen | 1990 |
| Broadway Babies Say Goodnight (Musicals Then and Now) | Mark Steyn | 1997 |
| Easy to Remember (The Great American Songwriters & Their Songs) | William Zinsser | 2001 |
| Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater | Jeffrey Magee | 2012 |
| Irving Berlin Reader | Benjamin Sears | 2012 |
| Irving Berlin And Ragtime America | Ian Whitcomb | 1987 |
| Jazz, America’s Classical Music | Grover Sales | 1984 |
| Louis Armstrong, An Extravagant Life | Laurence Bergreen | 1977 |
| Mark Steyn’s American Songbook | Mark Steyn | 2008 |
| Musicophilia, Tales of Music and The Brain | Oliver Sachs | 2007 |
| They’re Playing Our Song (Conversations with America’s Classic Songwriters | Mark Steyn | 1973 |
| This is Your Brain on Music – The Science of Human Obsession | Daniel J. Levitin | 2006 |
| This Land That I Love | John Shaw | 2013 |