Welcome to our 2020 American Folklore Society Virtual Exhibit. Step inside to see our featured titles, journals, music, and more. Browse our newest American Folklore Studies titles, and use Promo Code AFS20 to get 50% off all our American Folklore Studies titles! Offer runs October 14 -October 31.
University of Illinois Press Journals
The University of Illinois Press is proud to publish the official journal of the AFS, the Journal of American Folklore.
The Journal of American Folklore (the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society’s founding in 1888) publishes scholarly articles, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide professional audience. Read Vol. 133, No. 529, Summer 2020 open-access.
After a large number of papers about “Fake News” were proposed for the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Folklore Society, the editorial team of the Journal of American Folklore decided that the papers would make for an interesting and timely special issue of the journal. In Fall 2018, the special issue on “Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore (vol. 131, no. 522) became available on JSTOR and in print in mid-October.
For more information about what the Journal of American Folklore publishes and how to submit, please visit the Journal’s Exhibit.
We are also proud to publish Ethnomusicology and American Music.
American Music is an independent, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly which presents scholarly research about music from all of the Americas.
Ethnomusicology‘s scholarly articles represent current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields.
Featured Titles
Subject Catalog
Browse the catalog here: https://issuu.com/uilpress/docs/folklorecatalog2020
Free Book and CD Giveaway
When you sign up for our email list, you’ll be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a free copy of Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy edited by Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison and its companion CD from Smithsonian Folkways. Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/e8173166dd2b/afs-industrial-strength-bluegrass
University of Illinois Press on Spotify
Our Playlist for Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton
Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown Playlist
Celebrating Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
The Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World series emphasizes the interdisciplinary and international nature of current folklore scholarship, documenting connections between communities and their cultural production. Series volumes highlight aspects of folklore studies such as world folk cultures, folk art and music, foodways, dance, African American and ethnic studies, gender and queer studies, and popular culture.
Hear More from Our Authors and Editors
- Jean R. Freedman on Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
- Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn on African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture
- Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image by Bernetta Jules-Rosette
- Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado on Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School
- Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado on editing Degrees of Difference
- Fred Bartenstein on his career in bluegrass
- Tom Ewing’s “Adventures of a Blue Grass Boy”
- Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves Edited by Fred Bartenstein
- The Bluegrass Reader edited by Thomas Goldsmith
- Q&A with Christopher J. Smith, author of Dancing Revolution
- Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves Edited by Fred Bartenstein
- Bluegrass: A History by Neil V. Rosenberg
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Banjo
- Jean R. Freedman’s Interview with Deborah Kalb about Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
- Lydia R. Hamessley’s “Within Sight: Three-Dimensional Perspectives on Women and Banjos in the Late Nineteenth Century”
- Lydia R. Hammesley’s chapter in Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music
- Q&A with Lydia R. Hammesley, author of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton
- Sarah Morelli on Kathak dance
- Robin P. Harris on oral traditions
