Hippydom’s high holy day, August 15, marks the anniversary of those three days of peace, love, and mud known as Woodstock. Those who care about the iconic rock festival know […]
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New in paperback: a pioneer, a president and a King
Three UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution Earth, water, air—Octave Chanute grappled with the very elements themselves. He built the massive […]
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 […]
Happy birthday Alison Krauss
Born on July 23, 1971, Central Illinois native Alison Krauss has been awarded with more Grammys than any other female artist. The singer and fiddle player has put up sales […]
Mancini’s Pink Panther hits 50
In the spring and summer of 1964, the Blake Edwards film The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers, became a huge hit. The farcical tale of an incompetent French detective matching wits with a […]
$2.99 eBook sale on select Music titles
For the month of July we have lowered the e-book list price of four music titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Carla Bley by Amy C. […]
Read an excerpt from Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In his upcoming […]
Happy birthday, Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane on this day in 1924. As Wayne Everett Goins notes in Blues All Day Long, his new biography of Rogers, the legendary guitarist […]
Jim Rooney: on the road and In It for the Long Run
In 2009 Jim Rooney received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. In his new book In It for the Long Run Rooney recounts a lifetime’s worth of musical […]
Fred Ho dies at 56
Composer, saxophonist, author and activist Fred Ho passed away over the weekend. A foremost voice in the history of West Coast Asian American jazz, the East Coast avant-garde, and numerous […]
Happy birthday to Josephine Lang
German composer Josephine Lang was born March 15, 1815. Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important […]
Remembering composer Robert Ashley
Avant garde composer Robert Ashley passed away Monday, March 3. One of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation, Ashley’s innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with […]