In 2000, the music industry was changing. The model for acquiring music was transitioning from the CD to downloading and file-sharing, paving the way for the streaming era we have today. In this environment, David Bowie鈥檚 album 鈥淭oy鈥� was recorded and then shelved by his record label, EMI/Virgin. Although the album remained unreleased, Bowie went on to put out five more albums before his death in 2016.

Now, fans of the legendary performer and songwriter can hear 鈥淭oy,鈥� which was finally . It features , professor of music and chair of the jazz studies department at the 天美影视传媒.

Vu is a trumpeter who has led groups, toured the world and released eight of his own albums. Along with Bowie, he has played with avant-garde artists like Laurie Anderson and won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album as part of the Pat Metheny Group.

Vu met Bowie while living in New York City and playing with Holly Palmer, who was part of Bowie鈥檚 backing band. Bowie then invited Vu into the studio for the 鈥淭oy鈥� sessions. Vu鈥檚 trumpet is featured on several tracks, including the title track, 鈥�.鈥�

UW Notebook talked to Vu over Zoom about Bowie, the music industry and music education. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

How would you sum up the experience of working with David Bowie?

CV: I find that creative people like David Bowie are always experimenting, so they’ll call people in and just say 鈥渢ry something.鈥� I was doing really weird stuff that not many players do. The fact that he was into avant-garde, classical and jazz was special, because he really wanted me to try different things.

I have to admit that even though I was starstruck, I was never that into his music. But he was so sincere and honest and real and just a dude. He was extremely educated and extremely knowledgeable about so many different things. He’s not just a musician; he knows about art, he knows about literature, he knows about all these things at a high level. And then to have all that knowledge, success and money and still be a grounded, kind, cool person 鈥� I was totally blown away. There was a respect that he was giving. I think that’s how he dealt with people in his life.

Working with him was a lot of fun and it made me feel then like, 鈥淭his is why I’m putting up with being in New York. I can do this. I can be here.鈥� Seeing the album released now brought that back and made me miss that lifestyle and all the things that were going on. I was still young. I was 29, 30, so everything felt really fresh and energetic. I had the state of mind, 鈥淲e don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re just going to go.鈥� I’m old now, but I remembered what it was like to just take this journey where you weren’t sure how it was going to end. It was so exciting, and there was so much risk.

鈥淭oy鈥� wasn鈥檛 released at the time due to the financial struggles of Bowie鈥檚 record company. How have changes in the way people listen to music, and how people make money from music, affected you?

It’s been really hard for the older generation of musicians. Our whole business practice and our whole learning about how to exist in this world and make it has been predicated on putting out records and people buying records. And for jazz, it’s not even about making money from records 鈥� it’s about records as business cards that then get you the fans and allow you to tour.

Many of them have not been able to transition, and I would say that I’m one of those people, too, because my mindset is not to get on YouTube and show myself physically. I look at making a CD as if I’m writing a symphony with many movements in it. The CD represents a whole narrative, not just a collection of tunes. Now musicians have to release one track that has to kind of say everything.

On the flip side it’s been great for all these young musicians, because they grew up with this kind of thing, and it’s been shaping how they approach it. Spotify, YouTube and such are ways they can get their music out there. They’re savvy with how to put together videos and put together content. The new generations are figuring out how to make it work for them in this industry.

It totally took out the record companies. I guess the jury’s still out on the psychological aspects of all this social media, but in terms of putting out your music, it鈥檚 great.

Has music education evolved to go along with changes in the music industry?

You know, we’re still teaching the old way of doing things. We need to have classes on the business, taught by people who know how to capture eyeballs. Back when I was making a career for myself, I had to network. I had to find all the contacts, call everybody on the phone, mail out my record and so on. Today young people have to do their version of what I did.

What do you teach your students about the experience of being a musician?

That’s a huge part of what I’ve been trying to communicate to students. We set up the festival to help them realize what it鈥檚 like to be in the real world. We haven’t done it for two or three years now due to the pandemic, but we would bring in real-world, legendary, visionary artists. I set up bands that the artists would be leading, and the students would play with them. They鈥檇 spend a week rehearsing 鈥� really working hard to get the music figured out 鈥� and then the festival would happen and they’d perform with these artists.

It really gave students a window into what it takes, and they came to play. They worked their butts off, and they got to experience what it’s like to work with a real leader and how much work it takes to get good at something and deliver a good performance. I can only replicate that experience for them for two weeks, but in New York it’s like that every day.

Whatever students end up doing over the course of their careers, I think these experiences give them extremely valuable skills. With the arts, it’s like everything is there: science, research into your emotions, delivering a result. So if you can navigate that, you can transfer that into any other part of the career world.

Historian Patricia Ebrey receives Association of Asian Studies’ top award for 2020

The Association of Asian Studies has given UW historian its 2020 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies. The award, the highest the bestows, honors outstanding scholarship in the field.

Ebrey is the Williams Family Endowed Professor of History. She has written or edited many works on China and East Asia as well as a sourcebook on China for undergraduate teaching. She has written over 70 journal articles and book chapters and her works have been translated into several other languages.

Praising Ebrey for groundbreaking efforts in several areas, the association said in a news release: “By editing or co-editing volumes of scholarly work, and by providing translations and reproductions of primary materials, she has dedicated herself to developing the historical study of China both in terms of research and teaching.”

for the honor at the Association of Asian Studies website.

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UW political scientist Christopher Parker joins Cascade Public Media board of directors

, UW professor of political science, has been chosen to join the board of directors for Cascade Public Media, the nonprofit home of KCTS 9 television and Crosscut.

Parker has taught at the UW since 2006 and is the author of two books, “” (with Matt Barreto, 2013) and “” (2009). His next book, planned for this year, is “The Great White Hope: Donald Trump, Race, and the Crisis of American Democracy.”

Parker was one of two new named, along with Holly Mesrobian, a UW alumna who is a director of engineering at Amazon Web Services. The appointments were April 28. Also on the Cascade Public Media board is , UW professor of law.

“Not only is the world of media changing rapidly, the world itself is changing at a breakneck pace,” Robert Dunlop, CEO of , said of the two new directors. “Their insights will be extremely valuable as we continue to bring the people of our region news and programming that informs and inspires.”

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Terryl Ross receives 2020 social equity award from American Society of Public Administration

The American Society of Public Administration has given , assistant dean of diversity, equity and inclusion in the UW College of the Environment, its 2020 Gloria Hobson Nordin Social Equity Award for 2020.

The recognizes lifetime achievement in the cause of social equity. Candidates are evaluated on the consistency, level and duration of their work on social equity as well as the impact of their efforts. The society’s 8,000-some members are practitioners, academics and students.

Ross came to the UW in 1992 as a doctoral student in the Educational and Communication Technology Program housed in the College of Education and later created the group Multicultural Organization of Students Actively Involved in Change, or MOSAIC.

“Ross continues to work in diversity and inclusion today as he collaborates with college stakeholders to envision diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the college,” the association wrote.

The award, established in 2003, is named for a longtime employee of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.

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David Montgomery honored by Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography has awarded , UW professor of Earth and space sciences its 2020 for achievements in physical geography. He was honored his work in the field of geomorphology 鈥� the study of the origin and evolution of landforms.

Montgomery has written several popular science books as well as teaching materials and over 200 articles. The society praised his impact on the research community. His last book was “,” published in 2017.

“He has studied everything from the ways that landslides and glaciers influence the height of mountain ranges, to the way that soils have shaped human civilizations now and in the past,” the society wrote in its award announcement.

The was founded in 1878 and is supported mainly by the King of Sweden. Its objective is to promote the development of anthropology, geography and closely related sciences in Sweden and serve as a link between scientists in these disciplines, and the public.

The award, one of two informally referred to as the Nobel prize of geography, is named for the of Swedish explorer , who discovered the Northwest Passage in 1881.

Read more on the College of the Environment .

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In other faculty news:

Openness letter: , UW professor of urban design and planning in the College of Built Environments, was one of 31 scientists to sign an open letter to the journal Science calling for more openness in coronavirus modeling. “” was published in Science on May 1.

“A hallmark of science is the open exchange of knowledge, the cosigners wrote. “We strongly urge all scientists modeling the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and its consequences for health and society to rapidly and openly publish their code 鈥� so that it is accessible to all scientists around the world.”

Seattle Channel meets Indigo Mist: The Seattle Channel recently filmed a visit with the UW School of Music faculty members who comprise the improvisational music group : professors , , and , the school’s director 鈥� , artist in residence (and longtime bassist). The school took note in its April newsletter.

“You just let go and let your creativity do its thing,” Vu said in the video, describing the group’s creative approach. Whatever art comes out of that, he said, is “going to make sense 鈥� and it’s going to be uniquely your expression.”

Watch the Youtube video:

, assistant professor of drums in the UW School of Music, has a new album out. “You Already Know” was released Feb. 28 on , his debut on that jazz label.

Poor is a Seattle-based drummer who has played with well-known artists such as fellow UW faculty members and as well as , , , and . He plays with the band of Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter , who also performs on the album. He the UW faculty in 2013.

A single from the album, “,” is out. Poor will have an at 8 p.m. March 7 at Seattle鈥檚 Columbia City Theater, where he will be joined by faculty colleague Vu on trumpet.

The New York Times has called Poor “a trustworthy engine in countless modern-jazz settings.” magazine called his drumming “extremely thoughtful,” adding: “He knows how to craft a part, and play for the song 鈥� the way Ted flows in and out of cohesive ideas when he鈥檚 playing improv is a sight and sound to behold, if you’re not already familiar.”

UW Notebook caught up with Poor with a few questions about his work and the new album.

How would you describe the music on “You Already Know”?

Ted Poor: The music is a celebration of space 鈥� space for the drums to resonate and convey a feeling, and for the melody to dance around and push against that feeling.听It is primarily a collection of duets with saxophonist聽 and the sound of the record is focused on drums and sax throughout. At first there’s a simplicity to that combination, but out of that sonic world emerges tremendous depth and subtlety.听I’m thrilled to feature the drum set in this way.

What鈥檚 the process for creating an album like this? How long does it take and what are the challenges?

T.P.: After recording the core duet tracks at Brooklyn Recording with Andrew, I went to LA and worked with producer to add some subtle orchestrations (piano, strings, percussion, harmonium etc.) to further illuminate elements of the compositions, but without taking up too much space or overstating our ideas.

We spent about 10 days in the studio spread out over a period of two years to get all the tracking done.听Mixing and mastering took a few more weeks after that.听The biggest challenge was staying true to the main sound of the band.听 At times I had to fight the temptation to add more and more. In the end, I think we achieved聽our goal of balance and space.

Of the work on this album, of what are you most proud?

T.P.: I suppose I’m most proud of the clarity of the compositions and the clarity and direct nature of the drumming.听The music has complexity but it is also very approachable: oftentimes nothing more than a nice drum beat and melody just coexisting. I think I was able to strip away all but the essentials in the drum parts and writing. All this leads to a sense of purpose and a specificity of emotion.

What will folks see and hear at the March 7 album release show? 聽

T.P.: The album release show is very exciting for me.听I have been working for months now to work up this music with my dear friend Cuong Vu.听We’ve been playing music together for 17 years now and it’s exciting to draw on the long history while we develop this fresh duet approach.

We’ll play many songs from the record along with a slew of new material.听Also joining us is world-renowned visual artist and lighting designer .听Abby and I will be working the week prior to develop a video projection piece that will accompany the music and serve as the light show.听Knowing Abigail’s work, I can assure you it will be stunning!

How does it work, being both a touring professional musician and a teaching faculty member in the School of Music?

T.P.: It is certainly a juggling act! Above all I try to remain in control of my own schedule and commitments.听Honest, clear communication is the key.听In the end I love how I can share openly with my students the challenges I face as a touring professional and draw on my experiences to help them tackle the issues relevant to them.听If I weren’t out in the world making music, I would have a hard time standing in front of the students.听My teaching is completely informed by who I am as a working musician and human.

Finally, we’ve been talking jazz drumming 鈥� care to suggest three jazz albums that you think feature great drumming?

T.P.: “” by (who is also the drummer).

“” by featuring on drums.

“” by featuring on drums.

For more information on the album, contact Poor at tedpoor@uw.edu or visit his personal .

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A teacher discusses respectful world travel, a historian explores Silicon Valley鈥檚 evolution, a professor and violist plays the music of Robert Schumann and a late English faculty member’s meditation on Seattle returns 鈥�

Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW faculty in the last year 鈥� and a reminder of some recent favorites.

O’Mara’s ‘Code’: History professor Margaret O’Mara provides a sweeping history of California’s computer industry titans in her book 鈥�,鈥� published by Penguin Press. Publishers Weekly wrote: “O’Mara’s extraordinarily comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in how a one-horse town birthed a revolution that has shifted the course of modern civilization.” The New York Times called it an “accessible yet sophisticated chronicle.” 聽 for a 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Seattle stories: 天美影视传媒 Press is republishing UW English professor 鈥榮 well-loved 1976 reflections on his city, its history and its possible futures, 鈥�.鈥� Pacific Northwest Quarterly called the book 鈥渁n exhilarating critique of Seattle鈥檚 birth, growth, sickness, health, promise and fulfillment. Any serious student of Seattle or of recent urban history will now read Roger Sale, and with good reason.鈥� Sale, who taught at the UW for decades, died in 2017. The new edition has an introduction by Seattle writer Knute Berger.

Mindful travel: How can travelers respectfully explore cultures with lower incomes, different cultural patterns and far fewer luxuries? Anu Taranath, lecturer in English and the Comparative History of Ideas program, explores such questions in “,” published by Between the Lines. Taranath has led student trip to India, Mexico and other locations. “Mindful travel in an unequal world,” she says, is about “paying attention, and noticing positionality in relation to each other. It鈥檚 about understanding that we are all living in a much longer history that has put us in different positions of advantage and disadvantage, and equipped us with very few tools to talk about it.鈥�

Salish Sea fishes: , curator emeritus of fishes at the Burke Museum and a professor emeritus of aquatic and fishery sciences, teamed with James Orr of the Alaska Fisheries Center for “,” the first-ever documenting of all the known species of fishes that live in the Salish Sea. Published by UW Press, this three-volume set represents the culmination of 40 years of work and features striking illustrations by and details about 260 species of fish, complete with the ecology and life history of each species.

Watras plays Schumann: , professor of viola, offers new music and a masterwork by composer in “Schumann Resonances,” a CD released on Seattle’s Planet M Records. Schumann’s is the centerpiece and artistic jumping-off point for the CD, which is inspired by fairy tales and folklore, and features UW faculty colleagues and . The music and culture blog An Earful wrote: “Besides having a burnished tone and monster technique, violist Watras has a gift for contextualizing the music of the past 鈥� with ‘Schumann Resonances,’ Watras continues to prove herself a curator, performer and composer of unique abilities.”

Solo cello, Icelandic composers: Assistant professor of music and cellist has a new release on the Sono Luminus label titled “,” which features music for solo cello by several Icelandic composers and a return to an earlier composition, “Solitaire.” In liner notes, writes: “This project is a compilation of pieces by composers that not only share my mother-tongue and culture, in language and music, but also bring their unique perspective and expression in their compositions 鈥� I couldn’t have asked for more generous artists to come into my life and allow me to explore my voice through their music.”

Fanfiction examined: Fan fiction has exploded in popularity in recent years. In their book, 鈥�,鈥� and examine fanfiction writers and repositories and the novel ways young people support and learn from each other through participation in online fanfiction communities. Davis is an associate professor in the UW ; Aragon is a professor in the . Published by MIT Press.

Here are a few other notable 2019 titles from UW Press.

Seawomen, Icelandic waters: “ by Margaret Willson, affiliate professor of anthropology and a faculty member in the Canadian Studies Center has been released in a paperback edition. The book, first published in 2016, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award.

Asian American voices: A new, third edition of “,” published in 1974 and co-edited by , UW professor of English. The New York Times Book Review : 鈥淭he stories are 鈥� strewn with new insights buried in the flesh of the narrative; they illuminate areas of darkness in the hidden experiences of a people who had been little more than exotic figments of someone else鈥檚 imagination.鈥�

Haag remembered: A paperback edition of 鈥�,鈥� which explores the career of the founder of the UW Department of Landscape Architecture, best known in Seattle for his . Written by UW architecture professor , who said Haag鈥檚 legacy is found in the places he designed, which 鈥渋nspire students to think beyond what they know 鈥� they ignite civic engagement and public service, for Rich鈥檚 most important work was in the public realm.”

Staff discounts: UW Press is offering a 40% discount on all titles during the holidays. Staff and faculty get a 10% discount year-round when ordering through their website using the code WUWE.

• Joanne De Pue, School of Music communications director, assisted with this story.

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An architect argues to stay the wrecking ball and reuse older buildings, a historian recalls Martin Luther King Jr.’s timeless economic message, a master storyteller brings a new set of tales, an engineer conjures a children’s book with a robot’s-eye view of the deep ocean 鈥�

But hark! 鈥� yet more. Personal essays on nature spanning a biologist’s career, a best-selling author’s take on America’s unprecedented president, and a thoughtful book about books themselves, their past and their unwritten future. Plus jazz and classical recordings from faculty in the UW School of Music.

As the year comes to a close and festivities abound, some 天美影视传媒 faculty creations can make great gifts for the thinking Dawg on your giving list. Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW talents in the last year or so.

Michael Honey, 鈥�To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.鈥�

Fifty years have passed since King’s 1968 assassination. In a new book, Honey, a UW Tacoma historian, notes that economic justice and labor rights were always part of King鈥檚 progressive message. 鈥淗e said in Memphis, 鈥業t鈥檚 a crime in a rich nation for people to receive starvation wages,鈥欌�� Honey says. 鈥淭hat remains a basic issue right now across the country, where it seems like the economy is doing really well but there are millions of people in poverty.鈥� Published by .

Dana Manalang, “.”

After years working on a cabled observatory that monitors the Pacific Northwest seafloor and water above, Manalang, an engineer with the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory, decided to share the wonder of the deep sea with younger audiences. The result is this new children’s book published by Virginia-based , which combines images of the deep ocean captured during UW School of Oceanography research cruises with rhyming couplets and a cartoon robot illustrated by UW designer .

Charles Johnson, 鈥�.鈥�

A prolific author and UW professor emeritus of English, Johnson spins a dozen yarns in this new story collection, from realism to light science fiction and beyond, laced gently with humor and philosophy. Calling him a 鈥渕odern master,鈥� Kirkus Reviews said his stories 鈥渃an be as morally instructive as fables, as fancifully ingenious as Twilight Zone scripts, and as elegantly inscrutable as Zen riddles.鈥� Asked how he knows when a story is done, Johnson said: 鈥淲hen I can鈥檛 add another line (or word) to it without disturbing the delicate balance of music and meaning, sound and sense that comes from relentless revisions.鈥� Published by

Kathryn Rogers Merlino, 鈥�Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design鈥�

Tearing down buildings and discarding the energy and materials embodied in them is contrary to the values of sustainability, writes Merlino, an associate professor of architecture in the UW College of Built Environments. We avidly recycle and compost, but have no cultural ethic about reusing our largest manufactured goods 鈥� our buildings. 鈥淲e quickly demolish buildings in the name of new, 鈥榞reen鈥� structures, rather than looking for the possibilities of how we can work with what exists,鈥� Merlino says. To me there is an inherent conflict in there, and I think we can do better.鈥� Published by .

David Shields, 鈥�No One Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention.鈥�

In his latest release, Shields, a UW professor of English and New York Times best-selling author, deconstructs the mind of the current president of the United States. The book, is 鈥渁t once a psychological investigation of Trump, a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power,鈥� publisher鈥檚 notes say, 鈥渁nd above all a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse 鈥� a dissection of the politesse that gave rise to and sustains Trump.鈥� He calls it 鈥渁 manual for beating bullies.鈥� Published by .

Kenneth Pyle: 鈥溾��

After the United States ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it then conducted 鈥渢he most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history,鈥� writes Pyle, a UW professor emeritus of international studies. Only now, amid geopolitical changes of the 21st century, is Japan pulling free from American dominance and constraints placed on it after the war. The book, distilling a lifetime of research, examines how Japan, with its conservative heritage, responded to the imposition of a new liberal order and tracks the now-changing relationship between the two nations. Published by .

Amaranth Borsuk, 鈥� 鈥�

Borsuk, a UW Bothell assistant professor as well as a poet and book artist, explores the book, its past and possible futures in this compact volume. 鈥淩ather than bemoaning the death of books or creating a dichotomy between print and digital media,鈥� she writes, 鈥渢his guide points to continuities, positioning the book as a changing technology and highlighting the way artists in the 20th and 21st centuries have pushed us to rethink and redefine the term.鈥� Published by

Jim Kenagy, 鈥�鈥�

Kenagy, a professor emeritus of biology, presents a collection of 13 nature essays set in time across his life, from freshman field trips through his 聽dissertation and career at a major university. 鈥淭hese stories are not the scientific reports of a research professor, nor are they an attempt at popular science,鈥� state publisher’s notes. 鈥淭hese are personal essays that spring forth from observation and discovery of what nature has to show anyone who is willing to pay attention.鈥� Published by .

Pimone Triplett, “”

In her new book of poems, Triplett, a UW associate professor of English and creative writing, says she explores “the thinning lines between responsibility and complicity, the tangled 鈥榮upply chain鈥� that unnervingly connects the domestic to the political, personal memory to social practice, and our age-old familial discords to our new place in the anthropocentric world. Published by .

Multiple authors, “”

This reference book was first published in 1973 and became an instant classic for its innovative style and comprehensive illustrations. Now, botanists at the UW Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture have created this updated second edition, which includes the reclassification or renaming of about 40 percent of the taxa covered by the first edition. Published by .

And to accompany your reading, here are some recent recordings from faculty in the UW School of Music:

Cuong Vu 4-Tet, “”

The latest CD by Vu, trumpeter and UW Jazz Studies professor and chair 鈥� created with his “4-tet” 鈥� is landing on critics鈥� best-of lists for 2018. Guitarist Bill Frisell, drummer Ted Poor, bassist Luke Bergman and Vu all contribute new music on this follow-up to the group鈥檚 2017 album. A London Jazz News critic called the results 鈥渦niformly excellent.鈥� Released by RareNoise Records.

Craig Sheppard, “” and “”

Sheppard, UW professor of music, released two CDs this year, documenting live performances at Meany Hall. For one, he presents the revised score of Bach’s master work, left incomplete upon the composer’s death. The other is a deluxe collection of Brahms’s four sets of lyrical piano miniatures,
Opus 116 through 119. Released by Romeo Records.

Michael Partington, “”

An artist in residence at the UW School of Music, Partington returns to the 19^th century repertoire that formed the basis of his early musical development in this collection, performed on a mid-1800s French Romantic guitar. Released by Rosewood Guitar.

A novelist’s thoughts on storytelling, a geologist’s soil restoration strategy, an environmentalist’s memoir, a celebration of Latino music influences, a poet’s meditations on her changing city 鈥�

Yes, and a best-selling author’s latest work, a podcast reborn as a book, a collaboration of world-class violists and even tales of brave Icelandic seawomen 鈥� at this festive time of year, 天美影视传媒 faculty creations can make great gifts for the Dawg on your shopping list.

Here鈥檚 a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW talents in the last year or so 鈥� and a reminder of some perennial favorites.

Charles Johnson, “.” Johnson, National Book Award-winning author of “” and longtime professor of English, discusses his art in a book stemming from a year of interviews. “There is winning sanity here,” the New York Times wrote: “Johnson wants his students to be ‘raconteurs always ready to tell an engaging tale,’ not self-preoccupied neurotics.” Published by .

Marisol Berr铆os-Miranda, Shannon Dudley and Michelle Habell-Pall谩n, ““ An extraordinary exhibit at the Smithsonian and Seattle’s Experience Music Project (now Museum of Pop Culture) comes to life as a book, detailing Latino influence on American popular music from salsa to punk, Chicano rock to the Miami sound. Berrios-Miranda is an affiliate associate professor of ethnomusicology, Dudley an associate professor of music and Habell-Pall谩n an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. It’s a dual-language volume 鈥� English on the right side, Spanish on the left. And as a bonus the authors have created an American Sabor on iTunes and Spotify; the book flags specific songs with a playlist icon. Published by 天美影视传媒 Press.

David R. Montgomery, “.” Montgomery, a professor of Earth and space sciences, won praise for his popular 2007 book “.” Several books later he returned in 2017 with this view of environmental restoration based on three ideas 鈥� “ditch the plow, cover up, grow diversity.” said Montgomery’s well-expressed views “will convince readers that soil health should not remain an under-the-radar issue and that we all benefit from embracing a new philosophy of farming.” Published by .

Margaret Willson, Willson is an affiliate associate professor of anthropology and the Canadian Studies Arctic Program. In her years working as a deckhand she came across historic accounts of a woman sea captain known for reading the weather, hauling in large catches and never losing a crew member in 60 years of fishing. “And yet people in Iceland told me there had been few seawomen in their past, and few in their present,” she said. “I found this strange in a country of such purported gender equality. This curiosity led to the research and all that came from it.” Published by .

Estella Leopold, “.” Leopold is professor emeritus of biology and the youngest daughter of , who wrote the 1949 classic of early environmentalism, “.” She returns to scenes of her Wisconsin childhood in this follow-up, describing her life on the land where her father practiced his revolutionary conservation philosophy. Published by .

David Shields, “.” Shields is a professor of English and the best-selling author of many books, starting with his 1984 novel “.” In 2017 he brought out this collection of essays that the New York Times called “a triumphantly humane book” and him “our elusive, humorous ironist, something like a 21^st century Socrates.” The paper’s praise continued: “He is a master stylist 鈥� and has been for a long time, on the evidence of these pieces from throughout his career. . . All good writers make us feel less alone. But Shields makes us feel better.” Published by .

Joseph Janes, “.” The year 2017 saw Janes’ popular podcast “” become a book under a slightly different title. Janes is an associate professor in the Information School who writes here about the origin and often evolving meaning of historical documents, both famous and less known. Some of his favorite “documents” are Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s fictional list of communists, the Fannie Farmer Cookbook and the backstory to what’s called the Rosie the Riveter poster. Published by .

Frances McCue, Well-known Seattle poet, teacher and self-described “arts instigator,” McCue is a senior lecturer in English. She was a co-founder of Hugo House, a place for writers, and served as its director for 10 years. Those experiences fuel this book of poems about the changing nature of the city. “This is Seattle. A place to love whatever’s left,” she writes. Published by .

Scott L. Montgomery, “.” Scientific research that doesn鈥檛 get communicated effectively to the public may as well not have happened at all, says geoscientist Montgomery in this second volume of a popular 2001 book. A prolific writer, Montgomery is a lecturer in the Jackson School of International Studies. “Communicating is the doing of science,” he adds. “Publication and public speaking are how scientific work gains a presence, a shared reality in the world.鈥澛� Published by .

Odai Johnson, “.” The true cultural tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution, writes Johnson, a professor in the School of Drama, might not have been the Boston Tea Party or even the First Continental Congress. Rather, he suggests, it was Congress’ 1774 decision to close the British American theaters 鈥� a small act but “a hard shot across the bow of British culture.” Published by .

Here are some recordings from 2017 involving faculty in the UW School of Music:

Melia Watras, “.” Music professor Watras offers a collaboration from of world-class violists performing and sharing their own compositions with each other. Her own playing has been described in the press as “staggeringly virtuosic.” Richard Karpen, School of Music director, is among several guests. The title comes from the number of strings on the instruments used: two violas, one violin, and the 14-string viola d’amore. .

Cuong Vu 4-Tet, “.” A live collaboration between Vu, UW Jazz Studies chair, and renowned jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, who is an affiliate professor with the School of Music. Recorded in 2016 at Meany Theater, Vu and Frisell were joined by artists in residence Ted Poor on drums and Luke Bergman on bass. Released on .

Craig Sheppard, “.” Sheppard, longtime professor of music and a world-class pianist, plays sonatas and mazurkas by Frederic Chopin recorded live at Meany Theater in February 2017. The Seattle Times said of an earlier Chopin concert of Sheppard’s that his playing featured “exquisite details 鈥� it was playing that revealed layer after layer of music in each piece, as if one were faceting a gemstone. Released on .

Here are some other notable recent UW-authored books:

• Research on poverty and the American suburbs in “,” by Scott Allard, professor in the Evan School of Public Policy & Governance.
• Literature meets science to contemplate the geologic epoch of humans in “,” co-edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, associate professor of English.
• A popular science exploration of machine learning and the algorithms that help run our lives in “,” by Pedro Domingos, professor of computer science and engineering.
• A close look at four of America’s electoral adventures in “” by Margaret O’Mara, professor of history.
• A fully revised second edition of Earth and space sciences professor Darrel Cowan’s popular 1984 book, “.” This 378-page paperback is filled with details about Washington state geology.
• The story of a city’s transition from the Ottoman Empire to Greece in “” by Devin Naar, professor of history and Jewish studies.
• A city that “thinks like a planet” is one both resilient to and ready for the future that the changing Earth will bring, says Marina Alberti, professor in the College of Built Environments in “.
• Todd London, professor and director of the School of Drama, follows the professional theater experiences of 15 actors from the 1995 class of Harvard’s American Repertory Theater in “.”
• Dr. Stephen Helgerson, a UW School of Public Health alumnus and physician in preventive medicine for four decades, uses the novella form to tell of the influenza epidemic’s arrival in his state in “.”
• On the 500^th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, an exploration of faith that results in the common good in 鈥�,鈥� co-authored by Steve Pfaff, professor of sociology.
• Calm down from holiday 鈥� and tech-induced stresses 鈥� by thinking mindfully with “” by communication professor David Levy.

Finally, still-popular and pertinent books from a few years back include the second edition of “” by Jeffrey Ochsner, professor of architecture; “” by Randlett with Frances McCue; “” by Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences; and the ever-popular “” by Bill Holm, professor emeritus of art history. All of these were published by , which has many other great titles.