The Christian Science Monitor appraises Woody Guthrie’s place in American culture. “Guthrie derived his songs from the downtrodden lives of those he encountered on road journeys during the nation’s roughest […]
Category: music
UIP’s Judy McCulloh wins ARSC award
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has honored former University of Illinois Press Executive Editor Judy McCulloh with the 2011 Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings. From the ARSC site: After […]
Turner Classic Movies reviews Henry Mancini
The Turner Classic Movies site has published a sparkling review of John Caps’s forthcoming book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “Caps traces Mancini’s collaborations with important directors and shows how he […]
Gone to the Country wins ARSC award
Ray Allen’s book, Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival has been awarded a Certificate of Merit in the 2011 ARSC Awards in […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Squeeze This!
The January 2, 2012, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a review of Marion Jacobson’s forthcoming book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America. “Jacobson … traces the instrument’s impact on […]
Q&A with Marty Robbins biographer Diane Diekman
Author Diane Diekman has followed up her 2007 biography of country music star Faron Young with a new book on Marty Robbins. Here she discusses the research and writing of Twentieth Century Drifter: […]
Recent UIP titles win ARSC awards
Two titles recently published by the University of Illinois Press have won ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) awards. Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberback and Hill […]
Henry Mancini reviewed in Publishers Weekly
The December 19, 2011, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a review of John Caps’s forthcoming book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “In this lively, syncopated survey of Mancini’s movie music, […]
The Root and Foreword Reviews review From Jim Crow to Jay-Z
Miles White’s From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity has picked up some recent endorsements. The book examines how representations of black masculinity in musical and cultural […]
Q&A with Carla Bley author Amy Beal
In November 2011 we published Carla Bley, the first extended treatment of this innovative composer. Author Amy Beal, a professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains her approach […]
Cuban Zarzuela wins AMS award
Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havanna’s Lyric Stage by Susan Thomas was awarded the Robert M. Stevenson Award presented by the American Musicological Society (AMS) for outstanding scholarship […]
Plaudits for Carla Bley
On November 21, 2011, we published Carla Bley, the latest edition in our American Composers series. Author Amy Beal has received praise from a variety of review outlets for capturing Bley’s […]