We just received finished copies of Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers & the Folk Music Revival. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, […]
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NPR’s Here and Now features “Blues Before Sunrise”
The September 13, 2010, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Here & Now featured a segment on Steve Cushing’s recent book Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. Listen to the author interview […]
The challenge of translating Philippe Sollers by Armine Kotin Mortimer
In a nutshell, the challenge of translating Sollers consists of finding a balance between rendering his idiosyncratic prose style without flattening it, on the one hand, and writing intelligible English, […]
Will Kaufman’s hard travellin’
We’re finalizing our Spring 2011 catalog list and one of the titles that most excites me is Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie, American Radical. The book analyzes Guthrie’s political radicalism which has […]
NPR’s The Picture Show features “Hard Luck Blues”
The July 2, 2010, edition of NPR’s The Picture Show featured photographs from Rich Remsberg’s new book Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression. The book documents a […]
PBS’ History Detectives investigate the Theremin
Albert Glinsky, author of the University of Illinois Press book Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, will appear on the PBS series History Detectives on Monday, June 28, 2010. From the […]
Small author readings, in context
In today’s Shelf Awareness touring author Michael Perry hits upon key reasons for scheduling author events: The reading is primarily a peg upon which to hang radio interviews, newspaper pieces, face-to-face interaction […]
The Lee Boys
In September 2010 we will publish Robert Stone’s book Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition, which delves into the history of this inspired musical genre. The best known […]
Steve Cushing on Chicago Public Radio
Chicago Public Radio’s 848 recently interviewed Steve Cushing about his long-running radio program and the new book Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews. “Thirty years ago this month, on these […]
Chicago Blues in the News
The June 6, 2010, issue of The Chicago Tribune previewed this coming weekend’s blues panel at the Printers Row Lit Fest. The June 12, 12:00 panel is located at Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court, […]
Sacred Harp 442 – Amherst, MA July 6, 2008
I’ve been reading some of our forthcoming book The Makers of the Sacred Harp and looked to Youtube to supply the soundtrack. My favorite so far is “Sacred Harp 442.” Wow. […]
Nashville’s flood
Craig Havighurst, author of Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, filed a report for NPR’s All Things Considered on the recent flood’s impact on […]