William F. Gavin reviews the Joe Evans autobiography Follow Your Heart for the The Washington Times. “For every Armstrong or Ellington or Charlie Parker, there were countless musicians, their names […]
Who paid for that conference panelist to attend?
Inside Higher Ed published a story this morning about a company that might pay professors’ travel expenses to academic conferences to promote its product. “The company sent out an e-mail message this week to professors at colleges that […]
“Working Girl Blues” reviewed in Nashville’s City Paper
Ron Wynn gives Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens a quick read in the City Paper. “Working Girl Blues puts the spotlight on a magnificent performer whose […]
The Stonemans & the Country Music Hall of Fame
CMT.com has a wrap up of the induction ceremony for Pop Stoneman’s entry into the Country Music Hall of Fame. “The Stoneman daughters, backed by Cowboy Jack Clement on vocals […]
Marrying Into Office by Lois Duke Whitaker
Voting in free and fair elections is an important part of maintaining our democracy. Voters will make a choice in November 2008 to determine our next president. The current presidential […]
Peter Cole guest column in the Seattle-PI
Peter Cole, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, contributed a guest column to today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “On Thursday, […]
The Wisconsin State Journal catches up with Bill Malone
The Wisconsin State Journal catches up with local resident Bill Malone on his lifetime achievement award from the Society for American Music and new book with Hazel Dickens, Working Girl Blues: […]
Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks in Baltimore
Today’s Washington Post blurbs tomorrow’s Baltimore celebration of the release of Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues. Authors Joe Evans and Christopher […]
Utne Reader reviews “A Stranger Among Us”
The May-June 2008 issue of Utne Reader includes an enthusiastic review of Stacy Bierlein’s edited collection of short stories, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. “This anthology […]
Just Landed: “Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing,” “Father and Son,” and “Everything Was Better in America”
Three new books recently landed on my desk: –Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 edited and with an Introduction by Suping Lu (May 19, 2008) –Father and […]
Samuel Regalado on PBS’s “American Experience”
Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger, was interviewed on PBS’s new American Experience segment, Roberto Clemente. The Third Edition of Viva Baseball! will be published […]
Poetry Foundation features Colleen McElroy
Colleen McElroy’s new poetry collection Sleeping with the Moon is featured at PoetryFoundation.org. “She will happily give the MFAs a headache with her unfashionably clear statements and heartbroken admissions and the bold […]