On September 27, 2012, Josh Graves’s 85th birthday, the University of Illinois will publish Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, edited by Fred Bartenstein. We will celebrate the occasion at the International […]
An Emphasis on Conspiracy, Less on the Trial
Last week Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, published a post on his own blog in response to a negative review in Dissent. While tacitly acknowledging […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
The September 14, 2012, edition of The Wall Street Journal includes Terry Teachout’s enthusiastic review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the […]
Bill Malone, SoLost, and Country Music
Today SoLost, the video magazine of Oxford American, released a lovely interview and profile called Bill C. Malone: Scholarly Hero of Country Music. Malone also published two books in our […]
Musical Journeys in Sumatra Q&A
Margaret Kartomi, a professor of music at Monash University in Australia, answered our questions about her new book Musical Journeys in Sumatra. Q: Where is Sumatra located? Kartomi: Sumatra, the 6th largest […]
LA Times reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
This week the Los Angeles Times published a sparkling review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “Musician and folklorist Stephen Wade dissects […]
Beating our own drum
Inside Higher Ed published a letter this morning penned by university press directors Alex Holzman (Temple University Press), Douglas Armato (University of Minnesota Press), and MaryKatherine Callaway (LSU Press). University presses are one of […]
The Atlantic speaks with poet Laurie Lambeth
The Atlantic online profiled Laurie Lambeth, author of the University of Illinois Press poetry collection, Veil and Burn. “The fact that Laurie Lambeth’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) came after only one month […]
Happy Anniversary to Music in American Life
The University of Illinois Press is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Music in American Life book series with the publication of two new titles: Stephen Wade’s The Beautiful Music […]
Southern Gospel Music
On May 21, 2012, we published Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. Author Douglas Harrison, an associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, answered our […]
Indian Accents
Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (February 2013), was interviewed for a recent Salon.com […]
More than milk and spinach
The Classical sports website has posted an excerpt from the recent University of Illinois Press book A People’s History of Baseball plus a Q&A with author Mitchell Nathanson. The Classical: In […]