Academic and/or notable works, including a few blogs, on Sting (evolving list)

Works arranged by date/author (with links to journals, Amazon.com, or other online locations):

- Jon Solomon, “Sting in the Tradition of the Lyric Poet,” Popular Music and Society 17:3 (1993), pp. 33-41

- Sting, Broken Music: A Memoir, Dial Press, New York 2003

- José de Segovia, "Sting: El amor sagrado," July 12, 2005 (text/podcast, in Spanish)

- James Berryman, Sting and I: The Totally Hilarious Story of Life as Sting’s Best Mate, Blake, London 2005

- Christopher Gable, The Words and Music of Sting, Praeger, Westport 2008

- Christian Lahusen, The Rhetoric of Moral Protest: Public Campaigns, Celebrity Endorsement and Political Mobilization, Walter de Gruyter, 2013, pp. 184-200 [on "They Dance Alone"]

- Michael Taylor Ross, “Not the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” Music, Theology, and Justice, 2015 [blog, on Sting's 2009 album If on a Winter's Night...]

- Aaron J. West, Sting and The Police: Walking in Their Footsteps, Rowman & Littlefield, London 2015

- Ben Macpherson, “Heritage, home and heredity: Performing English cultural identity in The Last Ship,” Studies in Musical Theatre 10:2 (2016), pp. 227-241

- Andrea Stojilkov, “Sting: A Poet Who Sings, a Singer Who Reads,” in Symphony and Song: The Intersection of Words and Music, edited by Victor Kennedy and Michelle Gadpaille, pp. 194-217, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2016

- Paul Carr, Sting: From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold, Reverb / Reaktion, London 2017; Same in Italian

- Evyatar Marienberg, “Death, Resurrection, Sacraments, and Myths: Religion around Sting,” in Cultural Icons and Cultural Leadership, edited by Peter Iver Kaufman and Kristin M.S. Bezio, pp. 167-185, Edward Elgar, Northampton 2017

- Evyatar Marienberg, “Religious Motifs in Sting's Album ...Nothing Like the Sun,” Sting and Religion, 2017 [blog]

- Michael Tylor Ross, “Sacred Love: The (Eco)Theology of Sting,” in Music, Theology, and Justice, edited by Michael O'Connor, Hyun-Ah Kim, and Christina Labriola, pp. 73-93, Lexington Books, Lanham 2017

- Sarah Browne, “The Last Ship from Broadway to Newcastle: A feminist political musical for the Brexit era,” Studies in Musical Theatre 12:3 (2018), pp. 377-385

- Evyatar Marienberg, “Bible, religion and Catholicism in Sting’s album and musical The Last Ship,” Studies in Musical Theatre 12:3 (2018), pp. 319-335

- Leah D. Schade, “Sting – 57th & 9th: An Ecotheological Review,” Popular Culture and Theology, 2018 [blog]

- Evyatar Marienberg, “O My God: Religion in Sting’s Early Lyrics,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 31.3 (2019) 223–35

- Evyatar Marienberg, Sting and Religion: The Catholic-Shaped Imagination of a Rock Icon, Cascade Press / Wipf & Stock, Eugene 2021

- Javier de Diego Romero, “The Soul Cages, La Elegía De Sting A Su Padre,” Efe Eme, August 2, 2022 (in Spanish)