Nat Hentoff celebrates Marian McPartland’s 90th birthday in today’s Wall Street Journal, and recounts anecdotes from her University of Illinois Press book Marian McPartland’s Jazz World: All in Good Time. […]
Category: music
Just Landed: An array of new books
Eight new books recently landed on my desk! –Veil and Burn Poems by Laurie Clements Lambeth (March 31, 2008) –Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39 by Gabriela F. Arredondo […]
Who sealed this book? A mystery.
To keep track of web activity on current University of Illinois Press titles, I set up Google Alerts to notify me as books are mentioned online. I received an alert yesterday […]
Folk is the new folk by Michael Scully
When I first began attending the annual Folk Alliance conference in 1993 I was struck by the palpable sense of closeness among the few hundred attendees. Self-conscious about my […]
Just Landed: “Radical Sisters,” “California Polyphony,” “Follow Your Heart,” and “The Never-Ending Revival”
Four new books recently landed on my desk: Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. by Anne M. Valk (March 31, 2008) California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical […]
Depression
Back in my ’80s record store clerk days I worked with someone who used to engineer recording sessions in the attic of his rented apartment. One of the bands that he recorded […]
The Nashville Scene reviews “Air Castle of the South”
One of Craig Havighurst’s hometown weeklies, the Nashville Scene, reviews his new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City. “Air Castle of the South pulls […]
Roni Stoneman’s pop inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
On February 12th, Ernest “Pop” Stoneman, father of University of Illinois Press author Roni Stoneman, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. CMT.com reports, “Stoneman blazed the trail for […]
My favorite thing I’ve read this year
One of the residual benefits of scanning the trades—Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist—for reviews of University of Illinois Press books is tripping over the title of a book I might like to read. Special Topics in […]
Classical-Drone on John Cage
Classical-Drone recommends John Cage, David Nicholls’s new title in our American Composers series. “Barely 100 pages in length, Nicholls provides a high-level overview, and in the process he is able […]
The Stranger on Faron
Kim Hayden, writing for The Stranger‘s music blog, expresses her affection for the music of swoonworthy Faron Young and compliments Diane Diekman’s new biography, Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young […]
Just Landed: David Evans’s “Ramblin’ on My Mind” and Loren Schweninger’s “The Southern Debate over Slavery, Volume 2”
Two new books landed on my desk late last week: Ramblin’ on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues is a diverse compilation of essays on blues history, styles, and performances, edited by […]