Margaret Kartomi, a professor of music at Monash University in Australia, answered our questions about her new book Musical Journeys in Sumatra. Q: Where is Sumatra located? Kartomi: Sumatra, the 6th largest […]
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LA Times reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
This week the Los Angeles Times published a sparkling review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “Musician and folklorist Stephen Wade dissects […]
Happy Anniversary to Music in American Life
The University of Illinois Press is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Music in American Life book series with the publication of two new titles: Stephen Wade’s The Beautiful Music […]
Southern Gospel Music
On May 21, 2012, we published Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. Author Douglas Harrison, an associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, answered our […]
The Chicago Tribune profiles The Black Chicago Renaissance
The August 27, 2012, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of the new University of Illinois Press collection The Black Chicago Renaissance. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr., […]
Publishers Weekly reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
On September 10, 2012, we will officially publish Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, which reveals the backstories of thirteen iconic […]
SF Bay Guardian posts Marion Jacobson’s accordion picks
Marion Jacobson, author of Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, recommends her favorite accordion acts in a San Francisco Bay Guardian event preview. Alex Meixner makes […]
Religion Dispatches investigates southern gospel music
Douglas Harrison, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book, Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music, is the subject of a new Religion Dispatches Q&A. […]
A look at rare Guthrie photos
A month following Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, I am catching up on a gallery of rare photos featured on NPR’s website. University of Illinois Press author Rich Remsberg (Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs […]
Concert celebrates Nicholas Temperley’s 80th birthday
Nicholas Temperley, author of two University of Illinois Press books, will be honored by the North American British Music Studies Association with a July 28 concert at the University of Illinois’ […]
San Francisco area accordion events
Marion Jacobson, author of the new University of Illinois Press book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, will travel to Northern California in mid-August for a series of music and […]
Woody at 100 wrap-up
This past Saturday, July 14, marked 100 years since the birth of Woody Guthrie. Will Kaufman, author of the University of Illinois Press book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, was interviewed and […]