1. Savoy Ballroom. Jonathan Gill. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. Colin A. Palmer. Vol. 5. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. p2013-2015. Word Count: 909.
-Gill’s Scholarly article brefly discusses the Savoy’s history, it’s importance, and some of the people and dances performed.
2. Black dance from 16:19- Today. Lynne Emery. Princeton Book Company (1988). Pennington, New Jersy 234-235
This gave a breif history of the Lindy Hop and the African aspects of this dance.
3.Swinging at the Savoy. Barbara Engelbrecht.Dance Research Journal , Vol. 15, No. 2, Popular Dance in Black America (Spring, 1983), pp. 3-10
This article explores the inside of the Savoy ballroom and the dances that were performed in it.
4.”Something to Live For.” PBS. (2005): n. page. Web. 15 Mar. 2012. <www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/ella-fitzgerald/something-to-live-for/590/>.
-This article explores the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald.
5. Jazz Dance: The Story of Amrican Vernacular Dance. Jean and Marshall Stearns. De Capo Press. 1994.321-327
-This Chapter gave a brief history of the Savoy. It mention the dances, band and the dancers.
6. Gold, Russell. “Guilty Of Syncopation, Joy, And Animation: The Closing Of Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom.” Studies In Dance History 5.1 (1994): 50-64. America: History and Life with Full Text. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.
-Gold writes on the closing of the Savoy ballroom and explores the real reason it was shut down.
7. Fernandez, Manning, “Where Feet Flew and the Lindy Hopped”. New York Times (March 12, 2006)
This Newspaper article provides a look at the Lindy Hop and Frankie Manning the man that helped create a new step in the Lindy.