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Tag Archives: awards
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
in american history, art, awards, dance, gender studies, music, open access, poetry, women
Tagged American music, author awards, award winners, awards, dance, drama, Elocutionists, gender studies, music, open access, opera, poetry, women, women in music
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Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s groups. Women, in fact, dominated the art, and their purveyance … Continue reading
Black Opera Awarded Irving Lowens Book Award
in African American Studies, awards, biography, music
Tagged African American Studies, African studies, award winners, awards, biography, music
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We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the Society for American Music‘s Irving Lowens Book Award. From the SAM Bulletin:“Focusing on opera, this monograph explores important questions of how race, class and … Continue reading
Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize
in African American Studies, awards, bluegrass, folklore, music
Tagged African American Studies, African studies, award winners, awards, bluegrass, Caribbean studies, country music, folk music, folklore, music
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We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded annually for the most distinguished book-length work in English which … Continue reading
“Sophonisba Breckinridge” Receives Illinois State Historical Society Award
in american history, announcement, author events, awards, feminist studies, Illinois / regional, winner
Tagged awards, feminist sudies, Illinois history
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We are pleased to announce Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America by Anya Jabour has won an Illinois State Historical Society Award. The Illinois State Historical Society Awards are given for titles that has furthered the collection, preservation, … Continue reading
The AAUP’s best covers and jackets
in press events, publishing
Tagged AAUP, awards, book covers, event, graphic
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Once again, the U. of Illinois Press is hosting the Association of American University Presses’s 2017 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Held in the UIP Grand Ballroom, the touring show stops every year in Champaign-Urbana to display those examples of the designer’s art … Continue reading
Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar Robert M. Marovich
in awards, black studies, Chicago, music
Tagged African American business, African American history, awards, Chicago blues, gospel music, Robert M. Marovich
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Awards season in academic publishing is once again kind to the Press. A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music by Robert M. Marovich recently won a Certificate of Merit in the category Best Historical Research in … Continue reading
Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar Stephen Wade
in awards, ethnomusicology, music
Tagged awards, Beautiful Music All Around Us, ethnomusicology, folk music, Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award, Stephen Wade
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Laurie C. Matheson, Director of the Press, on the latest UIP award winner. Stephen Wade, author of The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, has been awarded the 2016 Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award from … Continue reading
Sa-lute! Congratulations to bluegrass scholar Gary B. Reid
in awards, bluegrass, music
Tagged awards, bluegrass, Gary B. Reid, Stanley Brothers, UIP authors
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We are pleased to announce that The Music of the Stanley Brothers by Gary B. Reid has won Best Discography in the ARSC Awards for Excellence, awarded by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. It’s a bit of double dip … Continue reading
Sa-lute! to The Man That Got Away
in biography, music
Tagged awards, Harold Arlen, The Man That Got Away
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UIP author Walter Rimler has won the Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the pop music field for his book The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen. Given by the by the ASCAP Foundation and the … Continue reading
Awards: St. Louis Rising
in american history, Illinois / regional
Tagged awards, Carl J. Ekberg's, early Illinois, Sharon K. Person, St. Louis, St. Louis Rising
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The 2016 Missouri History Book Award goes to Carl J. Ekberg’s and Sharon K. Person’s St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, adding to acclaim that has already seen it selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Ekberg and … Continue reading