University Of Illinois Press imprint: 158 books
Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention
The Old Negro in New Negro Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected...
Chicago's Grand Midway
A Walk around the World at the Columbian Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Created as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts with dizzying...
Don't Give Your Heart to a Rambler
My Life with Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara Martin Stephens became involved with the King of Bluegrass at age seventeen. Don't Give your Heart to a Rambler tells the story of their often tumultuous...
Neo-Passing
Performing Identity after Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie...
American Oligarchy
The Permanent Political Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
A permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in our nation 's history. Its self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption contribute to rising inequality. Its reach extends from the governing elite throughout nongovernmental institutions. Aside from constituting an oligarchy of prestige...
Gone to the Country
The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers introduced...
Libby Larsen
Composing an American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Libby Larsen has composed award-winning music performed around the world. Her works range from chamber pieces and song cycles to operas to large-scale works for orchestra and chorus. At the same time, she has advocated for living composers and new music since cofounding the American Composers Forum...
Peggy Seeger
A Life of Music, Love, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's...
Charles Ives's Concord
Essays after a Sonata
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata . Kyle...
Beyond Bach
Music and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer...
by Monica Filimon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement, Puiu emerged as its lodestar and critical voice. Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
**Indispensable must-reads for all Civil War buffs and historians, bringing together little-known and never before gathered first-hand accounts, articles, maps, and illustrations **
The first four volumes of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, published in the late nineteenth century, became...
by Keith Leslie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes. If these creative choices are off-putting...
by Kenneth M. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This attitude dramatically contrasts with the nationwide outpouring of grief and reverence that followed Washington's death in 1915. Kenneth M. Hamilton describes...