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A Political Playlist Just in Time for the Presidential Primaries
We know that many of you will be turning your attention to the Iowa Caucus on February 3rd as the 2020 Presidental Primaries get underway. And if you’re like us, you’re going to need a distraction...
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Remembering Cosmas Magaya (1953–2020)
The Press was sad to learn of the passing of Chicago author and master musician Cosmas Magaya this week of COVID-19. Below, ethnomusicologist Paul F. Berliner offers a remembrance of his coauthor,...
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A “Louder than Bombs” Playlist
Ed Vulliamy’s memoir Louder than Bombs: A Life with War, Music, and Peace, tells the stories of the artists, songs, and concerts that influenced him most. In his career as a journalist and war...
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Read an Excerpt from “Pilgrimage to Dollywood”
Summer is here, and there is no better time to pack up the car with family or friends, snacks, music, and a sense of adventure and head out on a great American road trip. In Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A...
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Five Questions with Adeline Mueller, author of “Mozart and the Mediation of...
The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) is often remembered as a musical prodigy. While his precocity is taken for granted, he influenced far more than the history of classical music. In...
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Listen to a Playlist of Billy Boy Arnold’s Most Essential Tracks
Billy Boy Arnold has been playing Chicago blues for just about as long as the genre has existed, with a recording and performing career that spans over seventy years. His newly published...
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Listen to a Playlist of Ethiopia’s Sentinel Musicians
The music of the Ethiopian diaspora rings around the world, testifying to the experiences of those exiled from their homeland and serving as a keystone for communities of Ethiopian refugees. Kay...
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Read an Excerpt from “Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM” by Paul...
Founded on Chicago’s South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is the most influential collective organization in jazz and...
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The Works of Giuseppe Verdi Series Awarded Significant Grant from the...
The University of Chicago Press is excited to share that The Works of Giuseppe Verdi series has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH grant recipients for...
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Listen to Chicago in Song
This May, we’re reading Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival by Mark Guarino for our #ReadUCP Twitter book club. Get in the mood by listening to this...
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