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Category Archives: new books
Meet our authors at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass
in announcement, author events, authors, bluegrass, conferences, new books, Uncategorized
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Meet our authors at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass! Barbara Martin Stephens, Don’t Give Your Heart to A Rambler Mike Doubler, Dixie Dewdrop: The Uncle Dave Macon Story Neil Rosenberg, Bluegrass Generation Penny Parsons, Foggy Mountain Troubadour: The Life and Music … Continue reading
Come See Us at #AEJMC18!
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Beginning Monday, August 6, 2018, visit Senior Acquisitions Editor Daniel Nasset in the exhibit hall at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2018 Conference. Get University of Illinois Press books at the conference discount of up to 40% … Continue reading
Read the Summer Issue of The Callout!
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Ahhh . . . summer. Picnics, gardens, fireflies—and of course, summer reading! In this issue of The Callout, our summer harvest includes the first comprehensive history of the Ozarks region; a pair of magnificent volumes on the influential Italian architect … Continue reading
University of Illinois Press Authors at Printer’s Row Lit Festival
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June 9-10, the streets of Dearborn and Polk will be flooded with booksellers, publishers, and book lovers for the annual Printer’s Row Lit Festival in Chicago! The University of Illinois Press will have a booth at the southern end of … Continue reading
Celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It’s an important time to pay tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s history. At the University of Illinois Press we’ve published a wealth of important work … Continue reading
Fall 2018 Catalog Preview
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The fall 2018 catalog is finally here! This catalog is packed with illuminating, entertaining, and thought-provoking titles and we’re so excited to finally share them with you! The gorgeous catalog cover this season comes from Women and Ideas in Engineering: Twelve … Continue reading
Q&A with Joseph Vogel, author of “James Baldwin and the 1980s”
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Joseph Vogel is an assistant professor of English at Merrimack College. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson. He recently answered some questions about his new book, James Baldwin and the 1980s: … Continue reading
Q&A with Derek Vaillant, Author of “Across the Waves”
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Derek W. Vaillant is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935. He recently answered some questions about his book Across the Waves: How the … Continue reading
Q&A with Denise Von Glahn, author of “Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life”
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Tagged Libby Larsen, women composers
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Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University, where she is also the coordinator of the Musicology Area and director of the Center for Music of the Americas. She recently answered some questions about Libby … Continue reading
Meeting Jimmy Martin
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Tagged bluegrass, Grand Ole Opry, Jimmy Martin
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In early May 1953, my girlfriend Jean Armstrong suggested I apply in the coffee shop where she worked as a waitress at the Tulane Hotel in Nashville. The hotel was situated on the corner of Eighth Avenue North and Church … Continue reading