The December 22, 2012, edition of The Wall Street Journal includes Eddie Dean’s review of Stephen Wade’s recent book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “The […]
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Music in American Life Anniversary Sale–Last Offer!
There are just two weeks left in our Music in American Life Anniversary Sale! Use promo code MAL40 to get 40% off all in-print titles, including: Stephen Wade’s well-reviewed The […]
Beethoven’s Creativity
Was Beethoven the creator of masterpieces defined by a strict text or musical blueprint? New research into his creativity shows that Beethoven explored a range of artistic options, and as […]
Congratulations, Bruno Nettl
The University of Illinois News Bureau reports that UI Press author and U of I Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, Bruno Nettl, has been awarded the 2014 Charles Homer […]
Banjo Newsletter features Stephen Wade
Stephen Wade, author of the new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, is the subject of a cover story in the December 2012 issue […]
Music Tomes interview with Fred Bartenstein
Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of […]
Stephen Wade on WHYY’s Radio Times
Earlier today, November 14, Stephen Wade appeared on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us and his new CD Banjo Diary. […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews Bluegrass Bluesman
The October 27, 2012, issue of The Wall Street Journal includes a review of the new book, Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves, edited by Fred Bartenstein. “Graves’s name […]
The Accordion in the Americas
Following the critical success of Marion Jacobson’s Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, we are publishing Helena Simonett’s edited volume The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, […]
Cutting the birthday cake at World of Bluegrass
On Josh Graves’s 85th birthday we hosted a booksigning in our World of Bluegrass booth for Fred Bartenstein, editor of Josh’s new book Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir. Josh’s widow Evelyn Graves cut […]
An introduction from the editor
Last week we released Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, by Josh Graves, and edited by Fred Bartenstein, a new book in our series Music in American Life. The book was a […]
Join us at ASALH and IBMA for booksignings and more
It will be a be a busy week for University of Illinois Press staff and authors. We will be at the Association for the Study of African American Life and […]