University of Illinois Press

The book is called Quinceañeras, Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture.

It's out now from the University of Illinois Press.

I want to thank the co-authors, Anhadad Valdivia of the University of Illinois, Jillian M. Baez of Hunter College.

and Diana Leon-Boys of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He earned his Ph.D. in American history at Temple University in 2019.

He is here to speak about his first book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites, Democracy and Division at the 20th Century Ballpark, by the University of Illinois Press.

Seth examines American changing understandings of urban areas, inclusion, and body politic.

He analyzes how team owners use ballpark designs, locations, and amenities to keep fans coming back to the park among significant changes in cities and in leisure consumption patterns.

All right.

You can go to SethTannenbaum.com. You have your own website.

The book is available from University of Illinois Press.

You can get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or go to your independent bookstore, order it.

This one I just put out myself.

The previous one was University of Illinois Press.

Trying to find a publisher who will do volume two of a cemetery book would be a bit of a challenge.

And also in the cemetery orders a case.

Thank you.

I'm talking today with Stephen Wade about his new book, Our Common Life, published by University of Illinois Press.

Stephen is a renowned banjo player, guitarist, folklorist, and historian.

You might recognize Steve from his previous book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us, or from his many appearances and performances, or perhaps from his long-running one-man show, Banjo Dancing.

For me, the promise of this past lives especially in music, and Stephen Wade is a kind of antidote to distraction and forgetting.

We've glimpsed that remedy in today's conversation with Steve, but a fuller realization of it lives in his books and his music.

His new book, Our Common Life, Folk Songs from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall, is out now, published by the University of Illinois Press, and it's a wonderful expression of Steve's approach to life and the world of music we share and inherit and inhabit.

You can find a link to the book in the show notes, along with more ways to connect with Stephen Wade.

So this time around, I was psyched to talk with Kip Lornell and Tom Minty.

They're the coauthors of Buzz Busby, Father of Washington, D.C. Bluegrass, published in June of 2026 by University of Illinois Press.

It's a thorough and fascinating biography of the bluegrass pioneer Buzz Busby, who moved from Louisiana to Washington, D.C. as a teenager to work for the government.

but quickly became an influential player and songwriter, starring on a daily local TV show, performing everywhere around the region and around the eastern part of the U.S., even participating in the show Louisiana Hayride when a budding young star named Elvis Presley was there.