Literatur
Abbot, Lynn; Seroff, Doug (2002): Out of Sight. The Rise of African American Popular Music 1889-1895. Jackson, University of Mississippi Press.
Darden, Robert (2005): People get ready! A new History of Black Gospel Music. New York, Continuum.
Early, Gerald (2004 [1995]): One Nation under a Groove. Motown and American Culture. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
Elsner, Constanze (1977): Stevie Wonder. London, Everest Books.
Eshun, Kodwo (1999 [1998]): Heller als die Sonne. Abenteuer in der Sonic Fiction. Berlin, ID.
George, Nelson (1985): Where did our Love go. The rise and Fall of the Mowtown Sound. London, Omnibus Press.
George, Nelson (2002 [1988]): R&B. Die Geschichte der schwarzen Musik. Freiburg, orange Press.
Gilroy, Paul (1992): The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Lundy, Zeth (2007): Songs in the Key of Life (33 1/3 Series). New York, Continuum.
Moore, Alan (2002) (Hg.): The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Perone, James E. (2006): The Sound of Stevie Wonder. His Words and Music. Westport, Praeger.
Reed, T.V. (2005): The Art of Protest. Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press
Ribowsky, Mark (2010): Signed, Sealed, and Delivered. The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder. Hoboken, Wiley and Sons.
Rowden, Terry (2009): The Songs of Blind Folk. African American Music and the Cultures of Blindness. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
Southern, Eileen (1983 [1971]): The Music of Black Americans. A History (Second Ed.). New York, W W Norton.
Stewart, Earl L. (1998): African American Music. An Introduction. New York, Schirmer.
Swenson, John (1986): Stevie Wonder. New York, Harper and Row.
Tompkins, Dave (2010): How to wreck a nice beach. The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop. Chicago, STOPSMILING books.
Werner, Craig (2002 [1998]): A Change is gonna come. Music, Race and the Soul of America. Edinburgh: Canongate.
Werner, Craig (2004): Higher Ground. Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul. New York, Three Rivers Press.
Zolten, Jerry (2003): Great God A'mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds. Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music. Oxford, Oxdord University Press.