Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America by Marion Jacobson has won the 2014 Klaus Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology from the Society for […]
Category: folklore
Congratulations to Neil Rosenberg
Tonight, the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) will induct folklorist, musician, bluegrass historian, and University of Illinois Press author Neil V. Rosenberg into the International Bluegrass Hall of Fame at […]
Accordionist Weird Al hits #1
For the first time in his 30 year career, singer, parodist and accordionist “Weird Al” Yankovic has a #1 slot on the Billboard charts with his album Mandatory Fun. What’s […]
Vernacular music and learning with Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith, author of The Creolization of American Culture gave a TED talk at Lubbock called “The Homeland of the Mind,” focusing on how people learn. Smith is an associate […]
The Beautiful Music All Around Us awarded by ARSC
Stephen Wade’s book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience has been awarded Best History in the 2013 The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) […]
Happy birthday to Ola Belle Reed
Although there is some slight dispute over her exact birthday, records say Ola Belle Campbell Reed, was born on August 18, 1916, in Lansing, North Carolina. She was the fourth of […]
Kings for Three Days author Jean Muteba Rahier Q&A
Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African & African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. His book Kings for Three Days: The […]
Journal of American Folklore publishes 500th issue
This spring, the Journal of American Folklore publishes its monumental 500th issue. As the official journal of the American Folklore Society, JAF has been published continually since the Society’s founding in 1888. […]
Stephen Wade on WGN-TV
Stephen Wade, author the recent book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, was a guest on the April 8, 2013, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
ongoing effects of war
I work on a number of journals here, journals covering diverse topics, and the variety is really interesting. Some articles stick with me for a long time. Yesterday I had […]
Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland
This week’s food column in the Chicago Reader features mini-profiles of five new books including the inaugural volume in our Heartland Foodways series, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of […]
Call for Book Proposals: Deadline Extended
The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew […]