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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Jul 28
Introducing . . . the UIP Fall/Winter 2025 catalog!
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November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Music and the Moving Image 18.3 is available online and is OPEN ACCESS thanks to the journal's participation in the @projectmuse.bsky.social Subscribe 2 Open program. Maria Fuchs, Gui Hwan Lee, and Keidi Ka-Sin Lee are all contributors to this issue. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55551
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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In "Planning for the Impossible" from American Philosophical Quarterly 62.4, @jeremybyrd.bsky.social argues that the consistency requirement about conditions appears significantly less plausible than the requirement about actions. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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In Ethnomusicology Vol. 69, No. 2, @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social explores reforestation as a form of ethnomusicological “practice research” in what he terms the “auralities of restoration.” cc: @sem-office.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/arti...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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In Journal of American Folklore (JAF: A Global Quarterly) Vol. 137, No. 544, Zoe Sherinian reviews DHOL: Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab by Gibb Schreffler.

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Journal of American Folklore Volume 137, Number 544, Spring 2024 Dhol Drummers, Identities, and Modern Punjab Author: Gibb Schreffler
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This latest issue of Process Studies contains four articles that were originally delivered as papers at the conference “A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead's Legacy at Harvard and Beyond.”

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November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Read this article on a how data visualization can be used to understand entanglements of violence against women from Visual Arts Research 50.1.https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/52530
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November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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In this episode of Four Corners Arts Forum, @millerscave.bsky.social talks about his newly released book, THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW.
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Guest host Bryant Liggett talks with Rob Miller, co-founder of Bloodshot Records about his newly released book.
Podcast Episode · Four Corners Arts Forum · 11/24/2025 · 29m
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November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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An excerpt from the new @illinoispress.bsky.social book by Bloodshot Records cofounder @millerscave.bsky.social:
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"So it came to pass that Eric Babcock, Nan Warshaw, and I started a record label. We each ponied up $2,000 from our wretched day jobs or savings accounts and — poof — we were a label." buff.ly/AHgr57O
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I appreciate the suggestion by @illinoispress.bsky.social that I am, perhaps, capable of skateboarding.

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The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low A Curious Life in Independent Music Author: Rob Miller
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low A Curious Life in Independent Music Author: Rob Miller
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We are pleased to announce that FEMINIST DIGITAL HUMANITIES: Intersections in Practice Edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman won the 2025 American Studies Association's Ángel David Nieves Book Award in the category of Edited Collection!
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Feminist Digital Humanities Intersections in Practice Author: Edited by Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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@millerscave.bsky.social's THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW mentioned in New City's Today in Culture
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November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Happy Pub Date to DECOLONIAL FEMINIST GENEALOGIES AND FUTURES edited by Annie Isabel Fukushima and K. Melchor Quick Hall!
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Decolonial Feminist Genealogies and Futures Author: Edited by Annie Isabel Fukushima and K. Melchor Quick Hall
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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In Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 124 No. 3 @adinlears.bsky.social reviews "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social). Read the review on @projectmuse.bsky.social. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Happy Pub Date to BECOMING ST. LOUIS: Family, Faith, and the Politics of Citizenship, 1820-1920 by Sharon Hartman Strom!
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Becoming St. Louis Family, Faith, and the Politics of Citizenship, 1820-1920 Author: Sharon Hartman Strom
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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In American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 46.1 on @projectmuse.bsky.social , Anne Guillard argues that theology has a role to play in public reason, but only if theology is understood as a form of critical rationality and not a set of truths
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Guest edited by Elisa Bordin + Theodora Patrona, Diasporic Italy 5 is a themed issue on fatherhood. Don't miss their introduction + 2 articles on fathers in the works of authors John Fante, Gattuso Hendin, & Carl Capotorto cc: @iasa1966.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/di/issue...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The recording of our Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the US webinar is now available at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Editor @rachelcholst.bsky.social reviews THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW, the memoir of Bloodshot Records co-founder @millerscave.bsky.social. Miller impresses on us a devotion to authenticity, independence, and community.
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READ A BOOK: The Hours are Long But the Pay is Low
Editor Rachel Cholst reviews The Hours Are Long But the Pay is Low, the memoir of Bloodshot Records co-founder Rob Miller. Miller impresses on us a devotion to authenticity, independence, and…
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Author Rob Miller and I discuss his new book "The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music" on the latest episode.

Listen here - bit.ly/4ruVuL0 or wherever you enjoy podcasts.

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November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Have a listen. It was a fun one. Come for the convo, stay for my answer to "who do I want to hear LESS: Lynryd Skynyrd or Led Zeppelin?"

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Author Rob Miller and I discuss his new book "The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music" on the latest episode.

Listen here - bit.ly/4ruVuL0 or wherever you enjoy podcasts.

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November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Examines how Mexican Americans made the Midwest their home

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November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM