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With 2011 underway and the sun shining in the Bay Area (at least temporarily), UC Press has declared it safe to come out of winter hibernation. We know of at least three good reasons to leave your house in January: Amiri Baraka, Terry Theise, and Michael McClure. And who knows? There may even be others.
 Guest Post by Lawrence Kramer Classical music is designed to be interpreted, not just performed. The interpretation has two facets. We treat the music both as something to ponder and as something to be presented intact, but with a difference, by different performers. There has been a lot of scholarly debate recently over [more...] Amiri Baraka, author of the American Book Award-winning Digging and over 40 other books of essays, poems, drama, and criticism, spoke with albuquerqueARTS magazine about conspiracy theories, the alchemy of poetry and music, and creating art in an imperialist context. On November 6, Baraka will collaborate with Cecil Taylor for the keynote performance of SHOUT-OUT: [more...] Jazz called to Nat Hentoff when he was 11 years old, and he heard Artie Shaw’s “Nightmare” wafting from a Boston storefront. At that moment, he writes in At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene, “jazz became a part of me. It still makes me shout aloud in pleasure, as [more...] On the surface, they may seem different—one is a book about American jazz, the other is about the relationship between romantic and experimental modern poetry—but Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music and Poems for the Millenium, Volume 3: The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry, edited by Jerome [more...] Bill Ivey When most people think about about government funding, the arts are probably not the first thing to come to mind. Arts funding is often shunted aside in favor of other priorities, and indulged at the rare times when there is extra money in the coffers, as Bill Ivey found while serving as chairman [more...] Eugenie Scott The National Academy of Sciences has awarded its prestigious Public Welfare Medal to Eugenie Scott, author of Evolution vs. Creationism, in recognition of her work as executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), promoting and defending the teaching of evolution in schools. “Eugenie Scott has worked tirelessly and very effectively to [more...] The magnitude of last week’s earthquake in Haiti measured 7.0, but the full scope of the tragedy continues to unfold. Each day brings new challenges, from reports of looting, lack of adequate supplies, and a strong aftershock that struck earlier this week. But stories of survival, resilience and hope are also emerging from the rubble, [more...]
We are pleased to announce that Episode 25 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Joshua Clover, author of 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About. Clover explores how the massive geopolitical shifts of 1989 mirrored [more...]
by Michael Long, Author of Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media (2008) Like plenty of others, I wondered what shape Michael Jackson’s memorial service in the Staples Center would ultimately take. One thing I was sure of was that it would almost certainly feature a big-moment performance of “Smile.” (It did. See [more...] |
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