Two more authors added their excellent works to the UIP trophy case, a piece of furniture already fill to burstin’ in recent weeks. Christina Sunardi won the Philip Brett Award from the […]
Category: dance
Flatfooting on YouTube
In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, musician, dancer, and scholar Phil Jamison tells the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
From Beyoncé to Shonda Rhimes to Laverne Cox, African American women have a higher profile up and down our pop culture than at any time in the past. Of course, […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
Academic publishing often forces one into the unappreciated but necessary job of Killjoy. It comes with the territory of challenging convention and shoveling the cultural/historical b.s. out of the barn. Having […]
Q&A with Becoming Beautiful author Joanna Bosse
Joanna Bosse is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and dance studies at Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. She answered some questions about her book […]
Somatic transformations
In Moving Consciously, Sondra Fraleigh and other contributors draw on both scholarship and personal practice to participate in a multifaceted investigation of a thriving worldwide phenomenon. As Fraleigh writes, the […]
Appalachian Dance by Susan Eike Spalding awarded
We are pleased to announce that Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities by Susan Eike Spalding has been awarded the Weatherford Award in non-fiction by Berea College and […]
The Creolization of American Culture wins Irving Lowens Book Award
The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy by Christopher J. Smith has been awarded the Irving Lowens Book Award by the Society for […]
New in paperback: creole culture and beer hall anarchists
Two UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy Painter William Sidney Mount created some of […]
Hear Our Truths: Black Girl Genius Week November 3-8
Ruth Nicole Brown’s book Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space […]
Q&A with Lucia Ruprecht, co-editor of New German Dance Studies
New German Dance Studies contains sixteen essays which range in subject from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation. Co-editor Lucia Ruprecht answered our questions about this […]
Q&A with Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance author Yvonne Daniel
In December 2011 the University of Illinois Press published Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship by Yvonne Daniel, professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College. Here Professor […]