Browse: University of Illinois Press (publisher), Jazz & Blues
This page lists all books published by University of Illinois Press.
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David Whiteis' refreshingly lively Chicago Blues is an inside job, a first-hand account that treats the music not as a pile of dusty old records but as a living breathing art form — More…
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Kernodle's Soul on Soul serves as an essential text, working to set the record straight on one of the genre's most significant-and conspicuously ignored-composers — More…
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Kernodle's Soul on Soul serves as an essential text, working to set the record straight on one of the genre's most significant-and conspicuously ignored-composers — More…
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[T]he authorial tone is far from dry, and his historical analysis is genuinely valuable . . . and the greatest value in this unusual book is allowing to see inside Willet's world and the place... — More…
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The Lady Swings undulates as much with dynamic rhythm as it does with delicious drama and laugh-out-loud storylines — More…
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[A] fascinating book — More…
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A detailed and well-proportioned linear narrative. Assiduous about assigning dates, where possible, to previously vague areas of chronology — More…
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The opening chapters are among the best things ever published on the blues. It's a thoughtful, substantial, solidly constructed, information packed work, and should be in every serious blues... — More…
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An excellent read for those interested in more than the music. . . . for those whose interests go far beyond the notes and singing, into the realms of history, discovery, dissemination and documentation — More…
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Required reading for lovers of the blues and historians of American popular music — More…
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