I spent the weekend in Nashville attending the Americana Music Association conference during which the Press hosted a launch reception for Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: […]
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Just Landed: David Nicholls’s “John Cage,” Leslie L. Lewis’s “Telling Narratives,” and Susan Gelfand Malka’s “Daring to Care”
Three new books just landed on my desk: –John Cage by David Nicholls is the second volume in our recently inaugurated American Composers series. –Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American […]
“Live Fast, Love Hard” launch party at Ernest Tubb’s Midnite Jamboree
We have a blowout launch party planned to celebrate the publication of Diane Diekman’s new book Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. Nashville’s Ernest Tubb Record Shops have […]
Wall Street Journal reviews “Air Castle of the South”
The October 17 issue of the Wall Street Journal praised Craig Havighurst’s new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City writing, “Havighurst has done […]
Burl Ives: “Solidarity Forever” by Bucky Halker
Bucky Halker is a songwriter, performer, labor historian, Senior Program Officer of the Illinois Humanities Council, and a Producer of the Folksongs of Illinois CD series that the University of […]
Roni Stoneman sighting at IBMA
“…and Roni Stoneman who was drawing folks to the University of Illinois book booth on Wednesday afternoon like ants to sugar…” […]
Southern Festival of Books
Four University of Illinois Press authors will participate in the Southern Festival of Books October 12-14 in Nashville. Roni Stoneman and Ellen Wright will discuss their book Pressing On: The […]