Two University of Illinois Press titles, Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers by John Broven and King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records […]
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What a Family! by Nicholas Temperley
Samuel Sebastian Wesley was born two hundred years ago — to be exact, on August 14, 1810. I will never forget hearing his anthem, “Blessed be the God and Father,” […]
Robert Stone talks sacred steel in Miami’s New Times
Miami’s New Times interviewed Robert Stone, author of Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition, in advance of his October 28 event at Books & Books in Coral […]
Sacred Steel at the AFS Annual Meeting by Robert Stone
Sacred steel guitarist Aubrey Ghent will perform his soulful music at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Wednesday, October 13, at 8:00 pm. Aubrey is a master of […]
Mississippi Sacred Steel by Robert Stone
I look forward to visiting Mississippi this winter to continue documenting musicians from the Jewell Dominion side of the sacred steel guitar tradition. Shown here, left to right, are Jamel […]
The New Lost City Ramblers
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, […]
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 […]