Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 International Bluegrass Music Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the promo code IBMA22 for 50% off of all of our bluegrass, country, folk, and old time music titles when ordering from our website, September 27 – October 1, 2022. Buy 3 books and receive a free issue of American Music.
Featured Books
Featured Journals
American Music is celebrating its 40th volume year! Its articles, reviews, and special issues are devoted to American music in the broadest sense, including musical practices of North, South, and Central America as well as American musics performed anywhere in the world.
Ethnomusicology is aimed at a diverse audience of musicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, cultural studies scholars, musicians, and others, this inclusive journal also features book, recording, film, video, and multimedia reviews.
Jazz and Culture, founded on the principle that both scholars and musicians offer invaluable contributions, juxtaposes groundbreaking work by researchers alongside oral histories and articles written by master artists in the field.
Music and the Moving Image explores the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, music videos, computer games, performance art, and web-based media) through articles, reviews, and interviews.
Featured Video
Recent Award Wins
Americanaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock ‘n’ Roll by John Milward named finalist for the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, World or Roots Music.
Industrial Strength Bluegrass: Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy by Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison named finalist for the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, World or Roots Music.
Special Journals Promo
Let’s Talk
Laurie Matheson is the director of the University of Illinois Press. Her areas of acquisition include the subjects of Music, Dance, and Folklore. If you’re working on a book project, please feel free to reach out to her during the conference here.
Click here to read an interview with Laurie Matheson.
Browse Our Seasonal Catalog
More From Our Authors
- Music in American Life Series featured in Bluegrass Unlimited
- How Bean Blossom Bloomed, from Indiana Public Media
- Queer Country Spotify playlist
- Read an interview with Bob Black on Bluegrass Today
- Read an interview with Mark Hembree in the Milwaukee Shepherd Express
- Read a feature on Industrial Strength Bluegrass in the Dayton Daily News
- Listen to the Americanaland podcast
- Read a Q&A with Jean R. Freedman, author of Peggy Seeger
- Spotify playlist for the Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls
- Watch an event with Lydia R. Hamessley at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum
- Listen to an interview with Thomas Goldsmith on WUNC The State Of Things