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August 6, 2014

Accordionist Weird Al hits #1

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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 […]

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October 2, 2013 (September 30, 2013)

Vernacular music and learning with Christopher Smith

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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 […]

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September 5, 2013 (September 5, 2013)

The Beautiful Music All Around Us awarded by ARSC

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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) […]

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August 18, 2013 (August 15, 2013)

Happy birthday to Ola Belle Reed

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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 […]

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May 29, 2013 (May 20, 2013)

Kings for Three Days author Jean Muteba Rahier Q&A

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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 […]

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May 16, 2013

Journal of American Folklore publishes 500th issue

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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. […]

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April 8, 2013 (April 12, 2013)

Stephen Wade on WGN-TV

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  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. […]

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December 23, 2011

ongoing effects of war

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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 […]

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April 22, 2011 (April 22, 2011)

Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland

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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 […]

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March 23, 2010

Call for Book Proposals: Deadline Extended

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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 […]

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December 1, 2009 (December 1, 2009)

Sing It Pretty

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Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]

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July 28, 2009 (July 28, 2009)

Archie Green Tribute in C-U

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The School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois will host a memorial honoring University of Illinois Press author Archie Green on September 14, 2009, in the […]

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