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Tag Archives: music
If you like Fats Domino’s rollicking style of Fifties rhythm and blues, you owe it to yourself to try out The Complete Imperial Singles. It is a six-disc collection filled with the dozens of pop and R&B hits the New Orleans-based … Continue reading
The King and Us
in american history, biography, music
Tagged Elvis Presley, music, rock and roll music
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This week marks the anniversary of the death (?) of Elvis Presley, a transformative cultural figure of the twentieth or any other century. If you have memories of that afternoon in 1977, you perhaps recall what you were doing when news of … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Muddy Waters
in Best of Illinois, biography, music
Tagged blues, Blues All Day Long, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, music, Music in American Life, Wayne Everett Goins
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Longing for that down home music? Looking for a shot of brilliance? Tryin’ to forget that you asked for water and your woman/man gave you gasoline? Then you must be celebrating the 100th birthday (or it might be the 102nd birthday) of McKinley Morganfield, … Continue reading
Cole Porter on tour, sort of
in author events, music
Tagged bookstores, Cole Porter, music
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Master songsmith Cole Porter is no longer around to play command performances or record duets with pop stars. But the music lives on. Yesterday Susan Forscher Weiss, an editor of A Cole Porter Companion (along with Don M. Randel and Matthew Shaftel) … Continue reading
Release Party: Bill Clifton
in biography, bluegrass, music
Tagged Bill C. Malone, Bill Clifton, biography, bluegrass, music
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The most atypical of bluegrass artists, Bill Clifton has enjoyed a long career as a recording artist, performer, and champion of old-time music. Bill C. Malone pens the story of Clifton’s eclectic life and influential career. Born into a prominent … Continue reading
Release Party: A Latin American Music Reader
in Latin American Studies, music
Tagged ethnomusicology, Helena Simonett, Javier F. León, Latin America, music
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In this new UIP collection, Javier F. León and Helena Simonett curate a group of essential writings from the last twenty-five years of Latin American music studies. Chosen as representative, outstanding, and influential in the field, each article appears in English … Continue reading
200 Years of Illinois: This one goes out to Johnsburg
in Illinois / regional, music
Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Johnsburg, music, Tom Waits
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September 13, 1983, saw the release of the song “Johnsburg, Illinois,” by Tom Waits, an artist fated to become the most beloved acquired taste in American music. Dubiously referred to as a Chicago suburb despite sitting an apple’s throw from … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: Over There
in anthropology, music, women's history
Tagged ethnomusicology, gender studies, music, Nepal, Peru, Russia, Sumatra, Throwbacklist Thursday, women's studies
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Whenever the Olympic Games convene, we remember that the United States shares the planet with other countries. We also remember that many of the world’s people play team handball. At the University of Illinois Press, our authors journey by jet, balloon, donkey, clipper ship, … Continue reading
Release Party: A Cole Porter Companion
in biography, music
Tagged Cole Porter, Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, music, Music in American Life, Susan Forscher Weiss
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If Harold Arlen built a reputation for chronicling love on the rocks, Cole Porter gained lasting fame and the adulation of a grateful culture for his celebrations of successful romance. Oh, the man worked the cloudier side of the street, with “Ev’ry Time … Continue reading
You the Mancini
in biography, music
Tagged biography, film, Henry Mancini, John Caps, music, Music in American Life
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Successful beyond belief in his chosen trade of making soundtrack music, Henry Mancini also enjoyed good fortune (made one, too) with forays into the pop charts. When he hit, he hit big. His Theme from Peter Gunn not only sold … Continue reading
