Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 Society for American Music conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
SAM 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Tag: music history
Christopher Reali, Interviewed on The UPside Podcast
Please join us in welcoming the return of UIP’s The UPside podcast! We can’t think of a better way to kick off of this re-release than with an interview with […]
AMS/SEM/SMT 2022 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) joint meeting! Explore our extensive collection […]
UI Press Books Named Winners of the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
We are pleased to announce that three UI Press books have been named winners of the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for […]
UI Press Books Named Finalists for the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
We are pleased to announce that five UI Press books have been named finalists for the 2022 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for […]
Release Party: Blue Rhythm Fantasy
Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music’s unsung heroes: the arrangers. In this new entry in our acclaimed […]
Feel the Magic, Sing the Song
Whatever happened to love? If you think there’s not enough of it in this old world, don’t blame Barry Manilow. Born on this day in 1943, he arrived on an […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
Last week the Library of Congress announced that it would offer an online archive of the collected papers of folklorist Alan Lomax and his family. This incredible resource will offer the field […]
For the love of wicked Feleena
There is a possibly apocryphal story about Loretta Lynn’s classic “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Supposedly, Lynn’s original version of the song included ten (or eight or twelve) verses. Hearing it, her […]