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April 26, 2017

The AAUP’s best covers and jackets

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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 →

December 7, 2016

Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar 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 →

December 7, 2016

Sa-lute! Congratulations to music scholar 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 →

December 6, 2016

Sa-lute! Congratulations to bluegrass scholar Gary B. Reid

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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 →

November 9, 2016

Sa-lute! to 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 →

November 2, 2016

Awards: 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 →