University Of Illinois Press: 158 books
Framing the Black Panthers
The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions. This edition of Jane Rhodes's acclaimed study examines the extraordinary staying power of the Black Panthers in the American imagination. Probing the group's longtime relationship to the media,...
by Sandra Jean Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and...
Never Seen the Moon
THE TRIALS OF EDITH MAXWELL
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Never Seen the Moon carefully yet lucidly recreates a young woman's wild ride through the American legal system. In 1935, free-spirited young teacher Edith Maxwell and her mother were indicted for murdering Edith's conservative and domineering father, Trigg, late one July night in their Wise County,...
Newspaper Wars
Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive...
Freedom from Advertising
E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Disgusted by publishers and editors who refused to cover important stories for fear of offending advertisers, the press baron E. W. Scripps rejected conventional wisdom and set out to prove that an ad-free newspaper could be profitable entirely on circulation. Duane C. S. Stoltzfus’s Freedom from...
by VANCE RANDOLPH
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1976
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs...
Dizzy, Duke, Brother Ray, and Friends
On and Off the Record with Jazz Greats
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federation and pioneered jazz education in Italy. Her work as a director-producer of radio and television programs have spread the music by introducing countless...
George Szell's Reign
Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
George Szell was the Cleveland Orchestra’s towering presence for over a quarter of a century. From the boardroom to the stage, Szell’s powerful personality affected every aspect of a musical institution he reshaped in his own perfectionist image.Marcia Hansen Kraus’s participation in Cleveland’s...
by Richard Jones-Bamman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Banjo music possesses a unique power to evoke a bucolic, simpler past. The artisans who build banjos for old-time music stand at an unusual crossroads ”asked to meet the modern musician's needs while retaining the nostalgic qualities so fundamental to the banjo's sound and mystique. Richard Jones-Bamman...
I Fight for a Living
Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The black prizefighter labored in one of the few trades where an African American man could win renown: boxing. His prowess in the ring asserted an independence and powerful masculinity rare for black men in a white-dominated society, allowing him to be a man--and thus truly free. Louis Moore draws...
Discriminating Sex
White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy...
Black Opera
History, Power, Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore...
Following the Elephant
Ethnomusicologists Contemplate Their Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In Following the Elephant, Bruno Nettl edits articles drawn from fifty years of the pioneering journal Ethnomusicology. The roster of acclaimed scholars hail from across generations, using other works in the collection as launching points for dialogues on the history and accomplishments of the field....