Tammy Kernodle, PhD, University of Miami Ohio:

Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of

     Mary Lou Williams. Northeastern

     Press, 2004. (Link)

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“'Anything You Are Shows Up In Your

     Music': Mary Lou Williams and the

     Sanctification ofJazz.” Ph.D.

     dissertation, Ohio State University,

     1997 (Link)

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Gayle Murchison, PhD, College of William and Mary:

"Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars and the

     Politics of Negotiation: Jazz, Gender,

     and Jim Crow." In Womens Bands in

     America: Performing

     Music and Gender, ed. Jill Sullivan.

     Rowan and Littlefield, 2017. 

     (Link)

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"Mary Lou Williams’s Hymn Black Christ

     of the Andes (St. Martin de Porres):

     Vatican II, Civil Rights, and Jazz as

     Sacred Music," The Musical

     Quarterly, Vol.86 No. 4 ( December

     2002), 591–629

     (Link)

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Linda Dahl.  Morning Glory: A      

     Biography of Mary Lou Williams.  

     University of California Press, 2001

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Jason Bivins.  Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion. Oxford University Press, 2015

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Angelo Versace. "The Evolution of

     Sacred Jazz as Reflected in the Music

     of Mary Lou Williams, Duke

     Ellington, John Coltrane and

     Recognized Contemporary Sacred

     Jazz Artists," DMA Dissertation,

     University of Miami, 2013

     (Link)

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