The 46th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, “The oldest, continuous running bluegrass festival in the world,” is less than a month away. We have a robust selection of […]
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Book trailer for The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Stephen Wade’s forthcoming book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience will be published in September 2012. Visit Stephen’s information page for details on his […]
Stephen Wade: Banjo Diary and The Beautiful Music All Around Us
In September 2012 musician and author Stephen Wade will simultaneously publish his latest projects: an hour-long CD titled Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition (Smithsonian Folkways) and the book The Beautiful Music All […]
Squeeze This! launch party in New York City
On May 17, 2012, the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC will host a launch party for Marion Jacobson’s new book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America. Dr. Jacobson […]
Squeeze This! reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
The April 14, 2012 issue of The Wall Street Journal featured a review of Marion Jacobson’s new University of Illinois Press book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion […]
Meta DuEwa Jones on Left of Black
Meta DuEwa Jones, author of the recent book The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word, was a guest in the second half of the April 2, […]
Q&A with Henry Mancini author John Caps
For four years John Caps was a producer, writer, and host of the National Public Radio syndicated series The Cinema Soundtrack. Here he discusses his new book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. Q: […]
WNYC’s Soundcheck Squeezes This
Marion Jacobson, author of the new book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, was a featured guest on the March 20, 2012, edition of WNYC’s Soundcheck program. […]
Marty Robbins bio book events
March features two book events to celebrate the publication of Diane Diekman’s new biography of country superstar Marty Robbins, Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. Saturday, March 17 – […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews Henry Mancini
The February 18, 2012, issue of the The Wall Street Journal features a review of John Caps’s new book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “As a composer of scores for television and […]
The Christian Science Monitor examines Woody’s influence at 100
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 […]
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 […]