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Interviews with scholars of the performing arts about their new books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

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Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
Dec 24, 2024
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024
Toby Manning, "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" (Repeater, 2024)
Dec 13, 2024
Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
Dec 12, 2024
Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Dec 11, 2024
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dec 06, 2024
Biopic
Dec 01, 2024
Chris Berry et al., "Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024
Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024
Margaret Mehl, "Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert" (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 23, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Nov 21, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
Nov 18, 2024
Risk
Nov 16, 2024
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 16, 2024
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 14, 2024
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Nov 12, 2024
Daniela Berghahn, "Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Nov 09, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
Nov 07, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Nov 02, 2024
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
Nov 01, 2024
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Oct 30, 2024
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2024
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Oct 25, 2024
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 20, 2024
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 19, 2024
Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
Oct 18, 2024
Ora Horn Prouser et al., "Under One Tent: Circus, Judaism, and Bible" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2023)
Oct 14, 2024
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Oct 10, 2024
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
Oct 08, 2024
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
Oct 07, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Oct 05, 2024
Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Oct 05, 2024
Lynne B. Sagalyn, "Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change" (MIT Press, 2023)
Sep 30, 2024
Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Sep 28, 2024
Francesco Lotoro, "The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the Music of the Camps to the Ears of the World at Last" (Headline, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024
Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
Sep 23, 2024
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024
Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Sep 18, 2024
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 14, 2024
Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Sep 13, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
Sep 13, 2024
Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Sep 10, 2024
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 08, 2024
Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Sep 07, 2024
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
Sep 07, 2024
Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Sep 06, 2024
John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Sep 02, 2024
Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Aug 31, 2024
Tarryn Li-Min Chun, "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024), "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Aug 30, 2024
Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 28, 2024
Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024)
Aug 27, 2024
Christopher Brown, "Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Aug 27, 2024
Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2024
Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 19, 2024
The Sounds of Silents
Aug 19, 2024
Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
Aug 14, 2024
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
Aug 11, 2024
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 11, 2024
George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Aug 10, 2024
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)
Aug 07, 2024
Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024)
Aug 06, 2024
Franz Nicolay, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Aug 06, 2024
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
Aug 04, 2024
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
Aug 04, 2024
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Aug 03, 2024
Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
Jul 30, 2024
Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
Jul 27, 2024
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 26, 2024
Miguel Escobar Varela, "Theater as Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Jul 24, 2024
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 23, 2024
Patrick McKelvey, "Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jul 23, 2024
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 22, 2024
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024
Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard, "The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain" (Vernon Press, 2022)
Jul 16, 2024
Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2024
Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 16, 2024
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2024
Pamela Hutchinson, "The Red Shoes" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 14, 2024
AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")
Jul 13, 2024
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
Jul 12, 2024
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, "Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism" (Lexington, 2023)
Jul 12, 2024
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
Jul 10, 2024
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
Jul 09, 2024
Breathing Together
Jul 08, 2024
Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Jul 07, 2024
Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 2024
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 27, 2024
Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024
Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Jun 23, 2024
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 23, 2024
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2024
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
Jun 14, 2024
Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)
Jun 11, 2024
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Jun 09, 2024
Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
Jun 05, 2024
Tara López, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jun 04, 2024
Ramón Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)
Jun 02, 2024
Robert Phillip Kolker and Marsha Gordon, "Film, Form, and Culture" (Routledge, 2024)
May 30, 2024
Bodie A. Ashton, "The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 28, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 28, 2024
Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)
May 24, 2024
Nicholas Underwood, "Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France" (Indiana UP, 2022)
May 21, 2024
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 20, 2024
James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024)
May 19, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
May 17, 2024
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024
Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
May 14, 2024
Alyxandra Vesey, "Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 11, 2024
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
May 08, 2024
Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022)
May 07, 2024
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
May 05, 2024
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
May 04, 2024
Kristi Irene McKim, "Rushmore" (British Film Institute, 2023)
May 03, 2024
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
May 02, 2024
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Apr 30, 2024
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Apr 26, 2024
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Apr 17, 2024
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
Apr 14, 2024
Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 06, 2024
Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Apr 05, 2024
Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
Apr 05, 2024
Edward Dusinberre, "Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 04, 2024
Richard Beaudoin, "Sounds As They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 02, 2024
Sam McPheeters, "Mutations: Twenty Years Embedded in Hardcore Punk" (Barnacle Book, 2020)
Mar 28, 2024
Melodrama
Mar 25, 2024
Caste, Music, and Microinequities with Supriya Subramani
Mar 23, 2024
Radha Kapuria, "Music in Colonial Punjab" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 21, 2024
Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Mar 16, 2024
Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Jonas Tinius, "State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
Gavin Butt, "No Machos Or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk" (Duke UP, 2022)
Mar 13, 2024
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
Mar 11, 2024
Xin Gu, "Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 11, 2024
David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 11, 2024
Priyanka Basu, "The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 06, 2024
Anna Dako, "Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the HumanNature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing" (Intellect Books, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 03, 2024
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Mar 03, 2024
Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)
Mar 02, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2024
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama, "The Play of the Feminine" (HASP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 27, 2024
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 26, 2024
Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Feb 23, 2024
Kareem Khubchandani, "Decolonize Drag" (OR Books, 2023)
Feb 14, 2024
Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 07, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Feb 06, 2024
Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 05, 2024
Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)
Feb 04, 2024
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Feb 04, 2024
Michael O'Malley, "The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Feb 03, 2024
Merin Shobhana Xavier, "The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Sheila Marie Bock, "Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jan 30, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Jan 25, 2024
Aaron Carnes, "In Defense of Ska: The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition" (Clash Books, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Aniefiok Ekpoudom, "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Jan 19, 2024
Adriana Helbig, "ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
Jan 13, 2024
Selby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 11, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2024
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jan 07, 2024
Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 06, 2024
Plot
Jan 04, 2024
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jan 01, 2024
Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Dec 30, 2023
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
Dec 26, 2023
Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023
Nate Patrin, "The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 23, 2023
Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 16, 2023
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
Dec 15, 2023
Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
Dec 09, 2023
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Dec 05, 2023
Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 02, 2023
Jackie Lubeck, "To The Good People of Gaza: Theatre for Young People by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
Dec 02, 2023
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 30, 2023
Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023
Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Nov 25, 2023
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Nov 24, 2023
Ina Rupprecht, ed., "Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45)" (Waxmann Verlag, 2020)
Nov 21, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Nov 15, 2023
Brigid Cohen, "Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
What Reality TV Says About Us
Nov 08, 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Nov 08, 2023
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
Nov 07, 2023
Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Nov 05, 2023
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Nov 02, 2023
Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)
Nov 02, 2023
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 02, 2023
Jennifer Saltzstein, "Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 01, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 3: The Language
Oct 30, 2023
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Oct 29, 2023
Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 27, 2023
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Oct 23, 2023
Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
Oct 21, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 1: The Story
Oct 16, 2023
Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Oct 11, 2023
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 3: The Language
Oct 09, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Oct 07, 2023
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 06, 2023
Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 04, 2023
Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
Oct 04, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Oct 02, 2023
Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Oct 01, 2023
Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 28, 2023
Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023
Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story
Sep 25, 2023
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2023
Kimberly Mack, "Living Colour's Time's Up" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023
Hongwei Bao, "Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 18, 2023
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
Sep 18, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 3: The Language
Sep 18, 2023
Bryan Rennie, "An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 16, 2023
Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Sep 11, 2023
Josephine Lee, "Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater" (UNC Press, 2022)
Sep 11, 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 09, 2023
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Sep 08, 2023
Caveh Zahedi, "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi" (Factory 25, 2015)
Sep 06, 2023
James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 06, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 1: The Story
Sep 04, 2023
John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
Sep 03, 2023
Elise Herrala, "Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 03, 2023
Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 02, 2023
Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton, "Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages" (Brill, 2022)
Sep 01, 2023
Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 31, 2023
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023
Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
John Brackett, "Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness" (Duke UP, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
Chuyun Oh, "K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 28, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 3: The Language
Aug 28, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Aug 27, 2023
Polyphony
Aug 24, 2023
PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event
Aug 23, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Aug 21, 2023
Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023
Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 18, 2023
David Humphrey, "The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023
Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 15, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 1: The Story
Aug 14, 2023
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 14, 2023
William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 3: The Language
Aug 07, 2023
Tony McCaffrey, "Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre" (Routledge, 2023)
Aug 05, 2023
What Was Contemporary Art?
Aug 04, 2023
Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Aug 03, 2023
Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Jul 31, 2023
Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
Jul 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 1: The Story
Jul 24, 2023
Rich Deakin, "Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead" (Headpress, 2021)
Jul 23, 2023
Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse" (Dutton, 2023)
Jul 22, 2023
Bombay Talkies
Jul 20, 2023
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
Jul 20, 2023
Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Jul 19, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 3: The Language
Jul 17, 2023
Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
Jul 11, 2023
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jul 10, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Jul 10, 2023
William Perrine, "Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego" (Billingsgate Media, 2023)
Jul 09, 2023
Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 08, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
Jul 06, 2023
Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)
Jul 04, 2023
Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 1: The Story
Jul 03, 2023
Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
Jul 02, 2023
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
Jul 01, 2023
Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)
Jun 30, 2023
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
Jun 29, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 3: The Language
Jun 26, 2023
Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 2: Context and Questions
Jun 19, 2023
Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jun 12, 2023
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 1: The Story
Jun 12, 2023
Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Alvaro Santana-Acuña, "Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023
Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
Jun 10, 2023
Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jun 07, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 05, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language
Jun 05, 2023
Lance Esplund, "The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art" (Basic, 2018)
Jun 04, 2023
Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Jun 04, 2023
A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia
May 29, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions
May 29, 2023
Lisa McCormick, "The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
May 28, 2023
Black Film, British Cinema II
May 25, 2023
Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)
May 25, 2023
The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain
May 24, 2023
Brad Krumholz, "Why Do Actors Train?: Embodiment for Theatre Makers and Thinkers" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 24, 2023
Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
May 22, 2023
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 1: The Story
May 22, 2023
Mark LeVine, "We'll Play Till We Die: Journeys Across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World" (U California Press, 2022)
May 19, 2023
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
May 17, 2023
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 3: The Language
May 15, 2023
Sebanti Chatterjee, "Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
May 14, 2023
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
May 12, 2023
Mark Goodall, "Gathering of the Tribe: A Companion to Occult Music on Vinyl" (Headpress, 2022)
May 12, 2023
Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value
May 10, 2023
Fiona Gregory, "Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines" (Routledge, 2018)
May 09, 2023
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 2: Characters and Questions
May 08, 2023
Brian Valente-Quinn, "Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
May 06, 2023
Philip Ewell, "On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
May 03, 2023
James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
May 02, 2023
Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 1: The Story
May 01, 2023
Katherine Gillen et al., "The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera" (ACMRS, 2023)
Apr 30, 2023
Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2023
David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Apr 27, 2023
Will York, "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" (Headpress, 2023)
Apr 25, 2023
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 3: the Language
Apr 24, 2023
Catherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 22, 2023
Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 22, 2023
Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 20, 2023
Dwayne Epstein, "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WW II Movie of All Time" (Citadel Press, 2023)
Apr 18, 2023
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Apr 17, 2023
Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
Apr 13, 2023
Natasha Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023
Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
Apr 12, 2023
Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Apr 11, 2023
Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
Apr 10, 2023
Celeste Day Moore, "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 10, 2023
Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Apr 08, 2023
Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)
Apr 08, 2023
The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
Apr 06, 2023
Natilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Apr 05, 2023
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Apr 04, 2023
Frenchy Lunning, "Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Apr 04, 2023
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 3: the Language
Apr 03, 2023
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2023
Suzanne Ferriss, "Lost in Translation" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023
Ethan Warren, "The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Mar 29, 2023
Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Mar 28, 2023
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Mar 27, 2023
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Mar 27, 2023
Sarah L. Kaufman, "The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life" (Norton, 2015)
Mar 23, 2023
Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 20, 2023
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 1: the Story
Mar 20, 2023
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
Mar 19, 2023
The Sharing of Sound Art
Mar 18, 2023
Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2023
Hugh Hodges, "The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes" (PM Press, 2023)
Mar 16, 2023
Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 14, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
Mar 13, 2023
Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 12, 2023
Joey Merlo, "On Set with Theda Bara" (1080 Press, 2023)
Mar 11, 2023
Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 11, 2023
Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
Mar 07, 2023
Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
Mar 06, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies
Mar 05, 2023
Error, Ego, Humility and Music: A Discussion with Tony Monaco
Mar 05, 2023
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
Mar 04, 2023
Margaret Hall, "Gemignani: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond" (Applause Books, 2022)
Mar 01, 2023
Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Dan DiPiero, "Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Frances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
Feb 27, 2023
Jen B. Larson, "Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983" (Feral House, 2022)
Feb 26, 2023
Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 3: the Language
Feb 20, 2023
Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Feb 20, 2023
Ying Zhu, "Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market" (New Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023
Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)
Feb 14, 2023
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
Feb 13, 2023
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
Feb 06, 2023
Steven Hyden, "Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Feb 06, 2023
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 1: the Story
Feb 06, 2023
Deep Cuts: Classic Rock and Hair Metal with Professor and Guitarist Jesse Kavadlo
Feb 05, 2023
Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Feb 05, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 5: How to Read Shakespeare
Jan 30, 2023
Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 28, 2023
Maria Sonevytsky, "Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine" (Wesleyan UP, 2019)
Jan 28, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 28, 2023
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2023
Stealing the Canon: Who Should Be In and Who Should Be Out?
Jan 24, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 4: Shakespeare’s Work
Jan 23, 2023
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jan 23, 2023
Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Jan 22, 2023
Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023
Richard Aquila, "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 3: Shakespeare’s Life
Jan 16, 2023
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2023
Dana Mills, "Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Jan 14, 2023
Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Jan 12, 2023
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
Jan 09, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 2: Shakespeare’s World
Jan 09, 2023
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Jan 07, 2023
Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 07, 2023
Siv B. Lie, "Django Generations: Hearing Ethnorace, Citizenship, and Jazz Manouche in France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jan 04, 2023
Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jan 02, 2023
Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 1: Why Read Shakespeare
Jan 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
Jan 01, 2023
Aaron Moulton, "The Influencing Machine" (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022)
Dec 31, 2022
Catholic Movies, Part 1: "Silence" and "The Scarlet and the Black"
Dec 30, 2022
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec 28, 2022
Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
Dec 25, 2022
What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
Dec 23, 2022
Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2022
Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
Dec 21, 2022
Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Dec 21, 2022
On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot
Dec 20, 2022
Fearghus Roulston, "Belfast Punk and the Troubles: an Oral History" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Dec 19, 2022
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries
Dec 19, 2022
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Dec 19, 2022
Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2022
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022
Mrinal Pande, "Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances: The Voice of Morari Bapu in Multiple Media" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 11, 2022
Daniel Immerwahr, "The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas’s Star Wars" (2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Jake S. Friedman, "The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Mary Channen Caldwell, "Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 07, 2022
Madeline Lane-McKinley, "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times" (Common Notions, 2022)
Dec 04, 2022
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Kathryn Dickason, "Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 25, 2022
Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2022
Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Jon Lewis, "The Godfather, Part II" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Elliott H. Powell, "Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Nov 21, 2022
Gregor Gall, "The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022
Bradley Morgan, "U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America" (Backbeat Books, 2021)
Nov 17, 2022
Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
Meredith Schweig, "Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Rustom Bharucha, "The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance, and Public Culture" (Seagull Books, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
Andrew Fiss, "Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Nov 09, 2022
Natasha Lance Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Nov 09, 2022
Bruce Davis, "The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
Guthrie P. Ramsey, "Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Laura A. Frahm, "Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the Bauhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Shaken and Stirred
Nov 02, 2022
Ross Cole, "The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2022
Joseph McBride, "The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers" (Anthem Press, 2022)
Oct 28, 2022
Shall We Play A Game?
Oct 26, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Kyle Stevens, "The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Proust Questionnaire 37: Dame Zandra Rhodes, Fashion Designer
Oct 24, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Wolverines!
Oct 19, 2022
Diane Negra, "Shadow of a Doubt" (Auteur, 2021)
Oct 18, 2022
John F. Lyons, "Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s" (Permuted Press, 2020)
Oct 18, 2022
Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
Alexander Sergeant, "Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Oct 14, 2022
Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 13, 2022
Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Oct 11, 2022
On Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
Oct 10, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 06, 2022
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 06, 2022
The Two Russias
Oct 05, 2022
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 04, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
Oct 04, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Cold War Homefront
Sep 28, 2022
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Sep 27, 2022
Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 26, 2022
Annie-B Parson, "The Choreography of Everyday Life" (Verso, 2022)
Sep 23, 2022
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022
Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Sep 21, 2022
Stevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Christin Essin, "Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022
A MAD, MAD, World
Sep 14, 2022
Pamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Danielle J. Lindemann, "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" (FSG, 2022)
Sep 12, 2022
Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
Sep 09, 2022
Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
Sep 07, 2022
Who Can You Trust?
Sep 07, 2022
Adam Abraham, "Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
Karinne Keithley Syers, "Astrs" (53rd State Press, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
Sep 01, 2022
Aniket De, "The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
He May Be a Communist!
Aug 31, 2022
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022
Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022
Brahma Prakash, "Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the 'Folk Performance' in India" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 26, 2022
Julie A. Turnock, "The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
Aug 25, 2022
Karen Archey, "After Institutions" (Les presses du réel, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022
Antonio C. Cuyler, "Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US" (Routledge, 2020)
Aug 18, 2022
87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
Aug 18, 2022
Julius B. Fleming Jr., "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" (NYU Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022
Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022
Sara Farrington, "The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde" (53rd State Press, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022
M. I. Franklin, "Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 09, 2022
Grant Wiedenfeld, "Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
Aug 04, 2022
Alan John Ainsworth, "Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960" (Intellect, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
John M. Shaw, "Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
Jeff Hayton, "Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
Ryan Uytdewilligen, "Killing John Wayne: The Making of the Conqueror" (Lyons Press, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 20, 2022
Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022
Melanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Day Street, 2022)
Jul 18, 2022
Tony Perman, "Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Jul 15, 2022
Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Jul 15, 2022
Jennifer Lin, "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China" (Temple UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 11, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Ben Davis, "Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
Jul 06, 2022
Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
Jul 06, 2022
Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)
Jul 05, 2022
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 04, 2022
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
Jul 04, 2022
Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2022
G. Ronald Murphy, "Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jun 30, 2022
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
Jun 30, 2022
José Rivera, "Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
Jun 27, 2022
Alan Lane, "The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir" (Salamander Street, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
John Luther Adams, "Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska" (FSG, 2020)
Jun 22, 2022
Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 21, 2022
Kira Thurman, "Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jun 21, 2022
Brian Kulick, "The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation" (Routledge, 2019)
Jun 20, 2022
Çigdem Çidam, "In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 16, 2022
Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Stan Lai, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022
Trina Nileena Banerjee, "Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 09, 2022
Melissa Vosen Callens, "Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in 'Stranger Things' and 1980s Film" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jun 09, 2022
Hentyle Yapp, "Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 09, 2022
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 08, 2022
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jun 08, 2022
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau et al., "Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations Between Worlds" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 08, 2022
Stephen Deusner, "Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Jun 08, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
Jun 07, 2022
Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Jun 07, 2022
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 06, 2022
Daniel Fairfax, "The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Jun 03, 2022
Mickle Maher, "Six Plays" (Agate Press, 2022)
Jun 03, 2022
James S. Bielo, "Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 02, 2022
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)
Jun 01, 2022
Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
Jun 01, 2022
Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Mike Errico, "Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter" (Backbeat Book, 2022)
May 26, 2022
Jami Rogers, "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans, 1966-2018: Integrating Shakespeare" (Arden Shakespeare, 2022)
May 25, 2022
Alejandro Nava, "Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 25, 2022
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
May 24, 2022
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
May 20, 2022
Alvin Eng, "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond" (Fordham UP, 2022)
May 16, 2022
Sandra Johnston, et al., "Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020" (Intellect, 2022)
May 16, 2022
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
May 13, 2022
Christopher Donoghue, "The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents" (NYU Press, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, "From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
May 09, 2022
J. Lorenzo Perillo, "Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 06, 2022
Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
May 06, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
May 04, 2022
Paul Geary, "Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants" (Intellect Books, 2022)
May 02, 2022
Nancy Barile, "I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion" (Bazillion Points, 2021)
Apr 28, 2022
Andy Bragen, "This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline: Two Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Apr 27, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
Apr 27, 2022
Rania Karoula, "The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Apr 22, 2022
Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, "Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022
Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Apr 19, 2022
Kenneth Partridge, "Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022
Yana Stainova, "Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Apr 13, 2022
Meredith Heller, "Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Apr 13, 2022
Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Apr 12, 2022
David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
Apr 11, 2022
Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 08, 2022
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 06, 2022
Louis K. Epstein, "The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France" (Boydell, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
Chelsea Phillips, "Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800" (U of Delaware Press, 2022)
Apr 04, 2022
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 01, 2022
Michael Spitzer, "The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 30, 2022
Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Mar 30, 2022
Kate Guthrie, "The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain" (U California Press, 2021)
Mar 29, 2022
Liora Sarfati, "Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022
Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022
Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, "Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Mar 18, 2022
Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Mar 17, 2022
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 16, 2022
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 16, 2022
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Mar 14, 2022
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 11, 2022
Uwe Schütte, "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany" (Penguin, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022
Larissa FastHorse, "The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?" (Theatre Communications Group, 2021)
Mar 09, 2022
Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Mar 09, 2022
Vicki L. Brennan, "Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Mar 08, 2022
Lynn Garafola, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 08, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2022
James Lapine, "Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'" (FSG, 2021)
Mar 04, 2022
William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Feb 14, 2022
Katie Rios, "This Is America: Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Abby S. Waysdorf, "Fan Sites: Film Tourism and Contemporary Fandom" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Feb 08, 2022
Peilin Liang, "Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater" (Routledge, 2021)
Feb 07, 2022
Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
Feb 07, 2022
I'm Possible: A Conversation with Tuba Professor Dr. Richard White
Feb 03, 2022
Karen Jaime, "The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida" (NYU Press, 2021)
Feb 03, 2022
Michael Stewart Foley, "Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash" (Basic Books, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 01, 2022
Baker A. Rogers, "King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Jan 31, 2022
The 15 Best Films about the Holocaust
Jan 27, 2022
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022
Henry K. Miller, "The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 25, 2022
Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Dana Polan, "Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
Jan 21, 2022
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
Jan 18, 2022
Amy Holdsworth, "On Living with Television" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 18, 2022
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey, "Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jan 17, 2022
Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022
Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
Jan 13, 2022
Jake Johnson, "Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jan 13, 2022
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jan 12, 2022
Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)
Jan 11, 2022
Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jan 07, 2022
Carol J. Oja and Charles Garrett, "Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U. S. Music in the 21st Century" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Jan 07, 2022
Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 06, 2022
Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman, "Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jan 05, 2022
Stephanie M. Pridgeon, "Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jan 05, 2022
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jan 04, 2022
Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
Dec 30, 2021
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Dec 30, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
Dec 30, 2021
Jennifer Fay, "Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 27, 2021
David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
Carolyn Eastman, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity" (UNC Press, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore
Dec 23, 2021
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 22, 2021
David Clare et al., "The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Mary Talusan, "Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Matthew H. Brown, "Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address" (Duke UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
Kate Fortmueller, "Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Alisa Freedman, "Japan on American TV: Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost" (Association for Asian Studies, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Caetlin Benson-Allott, "The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall, "Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Nov 30, 2021
Sunhee Koo, "Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Gretchen E. Minton, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
Nov 24, 2021
Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
Nov 24, 2021
Daniel Alexander Jones, "Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts" (53rd State Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021
Kate Fortmueller, "Below the Stars: How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)
Nov 12, 2021
Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Hiromu Nagahara, "Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 11, 2021
Andrea Warner, "Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography" (Graystone Books, 2018)
Nov 05, 2021
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Nov 03, 2021
Raphael Cormack, "Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s" (Norton, 2021)
Nov 02, 2021
Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
Nov 02, 2021
David Pearson, "Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2021
Caroline A. Kita, "Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna: Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Oct 26, 2021
Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)
Oct 25, 2021
Gary Bettinson, "The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance" (Hong Kong UP, 2014)
Oct 22, 2021
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Oct 22, 2021
Adesola Akinleye, "(Re:) Claiming Ballet" (Intellect Books, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021
Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 20, 2021
Joseph L. Clarke, "Echo's Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Gregory Vargo, "Chartist Drama" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Alana Jelinek, "Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 13, 2021
Luci Marzola, "Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021
Mike Dines et al., "The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global" (Intellect, 2019)
Oct 12, 2021
Phil Rosenzweig, "Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
Oct 07, 2021
Anne Bogart, "The Art of Resonance" (Methuen Drama, 2021)
Oct 06, 2021
Panayotis F. League, "Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Oct 04, 2021
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 01, 2021
Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (New Star Books, 2021)
Sep 29, 2021
Shayna Maskell, "Politics as Sound: The Washington, DC, Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)
Sep 27, 2021
M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 22, 2021
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021
Mathias Clasen, "A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021
Danish Sheikh, "Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India" (Seagull Books, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021
Kristian Petersen, "Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology" (Ilex Foundation, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, "Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
J. P. M. Drury and S. A. M. Drury, "Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical" (Peter Lang, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
Franz Nicolay, "Someone Should Pay for Your Pain" (Gibson House Press, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Martin Harris, "Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire" (Headpress, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Bernard F. Dick, "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood" (U Kentucky Press, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Sara E. Lampert, "Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Sep 10, 2021
Mary Gauthier, "Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2021)
Sep 10, 2021
Jan Bardsley, "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
Cameron Crookston, "The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging?" (Intellect, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 03, 2021
Robin Wallace: Inspired By Beethoven
Sep 01, 2021
Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
Caseen Gaines, "Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way" (Sourcebooks, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 25, 2021
Janaki Bakhle, "Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2005)
Aug 25, 2021
Robert Lashley, "Green River Valley" (Blue Cactus Press, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, "Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, "Disharmony and Other Plays" (CIUS Press, 2020)
Aug 13, 2021
Julia Jarcho, "Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 11, 2021
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
Aug 11, 2021
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
Aug 06, 2021
Angela Williams, "Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Aug 06, 2021
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Aug 06, 2021
Mark A. Johnson, "Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
Aug 04, 2021
Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Aug 04, 2021
Elizabeth B. Schwall, "Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2021)
Aug 03, 2021
Diana Deutsch, “Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 02, 2021
Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Joseph Curtin, “The Science of Siren Songs: Stradivari Unveiled” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 28, 2021
Pablo Palomino, "The Invention of Latin American Music" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
Andrew F. Jones, "Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Jul 16, 2021
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Jul 16, 2021
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, "Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jul 15, 2021
Paola Hernández, "Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Candace Bailey, "Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, "Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jul 12, 2021
Ellen Seiter and Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
Benjamin Steege, "An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 07, 2021
Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jul 06, 2021
Jeanne Pitre Soileau, "Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
Jul 06, 2021
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
Jul 05, 2021
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021
Carey Purcell, "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 25, 2021
Katherine K. Preston, "George Frederick Bristow" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Jun 24, 2021
Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021
Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021
Richard Thompson, "Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
Jun 21, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2021
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jun 17, 2021
David Arditi, "Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Jun 16, 2021
Claudrena N. Harold, "When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Jun 16, 2021
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
Jun 16, 2021
Constance Congdon, "2 Washington Square" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2020)
Jun 15, 2021
Douglas W. Shadle, "Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 11, 2021
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 10, 2021
Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jun 09, 2021
Cécile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)
Jun 09, 2021
W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
Jun 09, 2021
Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
Jun 07, 2021
Axel Englund, "Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 07, 2021
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Erin Courtney, "Ann, Fran, and Mary Ann" (53rd State Press, 2020)
Jun 01, 2021
Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)
May 31, 2021
Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)
May 28, 2021
K. E. Goldschmitt, "Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 28, 2021
Benjamin Piekut, "Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem" (Duke UP, 2019)
May 28, 2021
Katrina Phillips, "Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
May 21, 2021
David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
May 14, 2021
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
May 13, 2021
Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
May 13, 2021
Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
May 11, 2021
Kate Dossett, "Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal" (UNC Press, 2020)
May 10, 2021
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
May 06, 2021
Amit Chaudhuri, "Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music" (NYRB, 2021)
May 06, 2021
Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)
May 04, 2021
Philip Auslander, "In Concert: Performing Musical Persona" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Apr 30, 2021
Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
Apr 30, 2021
E. Patrick Johnson, "Sweet Tea: A Play" (Northwestern UP, 2011)
Apr 30, 2021
Jack Black, "Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021
Carrie Noland, "Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2021
Bill Nowlin, "Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records" (Equinox, 2021)
Apr 20, 2021
Felicia Rose Chavez, "The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom" (Breakbeat Poets, 2020)
Apr 20, 2021
R. Armstrong and R. Hughes "The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 19, 2021
Joshua Bennett, "Owed" (Penguin, 2020)
Apr 19, 2021
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021
Anne Searcy, "Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 09, 2021
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 06, 2021
Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Apr 06, 2021
Amanda Ann Klein, "Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 05, 2021
D. A. Miller, "Hidden Hitchcock" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Mar 31, 2021
Jane Alison, "Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative" (Catapult, 2019)
Mar 31, 2021
Nate Chinen, "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" (Vintage, 2019)
Mar 26, 2021
Rebecca Hope Dirksen, "After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 17, 2021
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2021
Richard Maxwell, "Evening Plays" (Theatre Communications Group, 2020)
Mar 16, 2021
J. DeLapp-Birkett and Aaron Sherber, "Appalachian Spring: Original Ballet Version" (A-R Edtions, 2019)
Mar 15, 2021
Peter Langland-Hassan, "Explaining Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021
Xiaomei Chen, "Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda" (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 10, 2021
Frances Galt, "Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries" (Bristol UP, 2020)
Mar 05, 2021
Luc Sante, "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" (Verse Chorus Press, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film" (Routledge, 2020)
Feb 24, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks, "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2021
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
Feb 18, 2021
Howard Sherman, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021
Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema" (Palgrave, 2019)
Feb 05, 2021
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
Feb 05, 2021
Kimberly Mack, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White" (U Mass Press, 2020)
Feb 05, 2021
M. C. Riggio et al, "Festive Devils of the Americas" (Seagull Books, 2015)
Feb 04, 2021
Diana Taylor, "¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 29, 2021
Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder, "Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond" (Faber and Faber, 2021)
Jan 29, 2021
Andrea Bohlman, "Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 26, 2021
Maya Stovall, "Liquor Store Theatre" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 25, 2021
Mario Telò, "Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 2021
André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
Jan 20, 2021
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou" (Abbreviated Press, 2019)
Jan 14, 2021
Guojun Wang, "Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 14, 2021
Bringing the Story to the Streets: If God is Dead, How Does the Passion Survive?
Jan 13, 2021
Mike Anthony, "Life at Hamilton: Sometimes You Throw Away Your Shot, Only to Find Your Story" (Waterside, 2020)
Jan 13, 2021
Andy Boyd, "The Trade Federation or Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels" (NoPassport, 2020)
Jan 12, 2021
Gerry Smyth, "Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 12, 2021
Mark Nowak, "Social Poetics" (Coffee House Press, 2020)
Dec 30, 2020
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom" (Routledge, 2018)
Dec 28, 2020
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir" (Tin House Books, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
Dec 23, 2020
Edwin Wilson, "Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on Theatre & Other Entertainment" (Smith & Kraus, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Laurent Fintoni, "Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century" (Velocity Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 18, 2020
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation" (Syracuse UP, 2020)
Dec 15, 2020
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Springer, 2019)
Dec 15, 2020
Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work" (Zone Books, 2020)
Dec 11, 2020
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 08, 2020
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dec 04, 2020
Harmony Bench, "Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Dec 02, 2020
David Adjmi, "Lot Six" (Harper, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 24, 2020
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020
George Musgrave, "Can Music Make You Sick?: Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition" (U Westminster Press, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Nov 16, 2020
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
Terry Baum, "One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays 1975-2014" (Exit Press, 2019)
Nov 16, 2020
Arlene Davila, "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity and China’s Soft Power: A Discussion with Dr Josh Stenberg
Nov 12, 2020
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020
Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution" (NYU Press, 2016)
Nov 10, 2020
Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing" (UNC Press, 2020)
Nov 09, 2020
Megan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theater of Optimism and Honesty" (3rd Thing Press, 2020)
Nov 06, 2020
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical", 2nd edition (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
Neil Shister, "Radical Ritual: How Burning Man Changed the World" (Counterpoint, 2019)
Oct 26, 2020
Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020
Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Oct 23, 2020
Robert Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020
Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Oct 20, 2020
Ahalya Satkunaratnam, "Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharatanatyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020
Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others" (No Place Press, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020
Joel Miller, "Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I made a Great Cup of Tea…" (2020)
Oct 13, 2020
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2020
Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life" (NYU Press, 2018)
Oct 02, 2020
Fabian Holt, "Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Sep 29, 2020
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcock and His Imitators" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 28, 2020
Karen Quigley, "Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure" (Methuen Drama, 2020)
Sep 28, 2020
Silviana Wood, "Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays" (U Arizona Press, 2016)
Sep 22, 2020
Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce and Popular Music" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020
Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque" (UP Colorado, 2017)
Sep 17, 2020
Anne García-Romero, "The Fornes Frame" (U Arizona Press, 2016)
Sep 15, 2020
Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Sep 10, 2020
Co-Authored: A Discussion of "The Party Decides"
Sep 09, 2020
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War"(Duke UP, 2019)
Sep 03, 2020
Chantal Bilodeau, "Forward" (Tanlonbooks 2018)
Sep 03, 2020
Annie-B Parson, "Drawing the Surface of Dance: A Biography in Charts" (Wesleyan UP. 2019)
Aug 31, 2020
Adam Broinowski, "Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War" (Bloomsbury 2016)
Aug 25, 2020
Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife" (Michigan UP, 2020)
Aug 24, 2020
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 21, 2020
F. Henry and D. Plaza, "Carnival Is Woman: Feminism and Performance in Caribbean Mas. (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
Aug 21, 2020
L. D'Amour and K. Pearl, "Milton: A Performance and Community Engagement Experiment" (53rd State Press, 2019)
Aug 20, 2020
Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation" (Beacon, 2019)
Aug 19, 2020
Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South" (History Press, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2020
Karen Patel, "The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Aug 12, 2020
Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting: The Labor Plays of Manny Fried" (SIU Press 2020)
Aug 11, 2020
Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920" (LSU Press, 2017)
Aug 10, 2020
Caridad Svich, "Mitchell and Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (Routledge, 2019
Aug 03, 2020
Sunny Stalter-Pace, "Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffman’s Life in Vaudeville and Dance" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020
Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jul 30, 2020
Kevin J. Byrne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020
Mary Kathryn Nagle, "Sovereignty" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
Jul 24, 2020
Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Survival as an Artist in Iran" (New Village Press, 2020)
Jul 14, 2020
C. Jester and C. Svich, "Fifty Playwrights on their Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Jul 09, 2020
Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jul 08, 2020
Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Lens: Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Jul 06, 2020
Grace Elizabeth Hale, "Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jul 03, 2020
François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2020)
Jun 26, 2020
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020
Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Ian Burrows, "Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy" (Zero Books, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Steve Zeitlin, "The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness" (Cornell UP, 2016)
May 25, 2020
Caridad Svich, "The Hour of All Things and Other Plays" (Intellect Books, 2018)
May 20, 2020
Stacy Wolf, "Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 18, 2020
Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 12, 2020
Lana Lesley, "Rude Mechs’ Lipstick Traces" (53rd State, 2019)
May 11, 2020
Sean F. Edgecomb, "Charles Ludlam Lives!" (U Michigan, 2017)
May 08, 2020
Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness" (Routledge, 2019)
May 01, 2020
Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Apr 29, 2020
James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided America" (Penguin, 2020)
Apr 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Apr 24, 2020
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling" (Thick Press, 2020)
Apr 23, 2020
Jacki Apple, "Performance / Media / Art / Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018" (Intellect Books, 2019)
Apr 23, 2020
Christopher Bayes, "Discovering the Clown, or The Funny Book of Good Acting" (TCG, 2019)
Apr 17, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce" (Routledge, 2020)
Mar 27, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
Aug 29, 2019
Shelby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Aug 16, 2019
Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance" (U California Press, 2019)
Aug 08, 2019
Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (U California Press, 2018)
Jun 18, 2019
David V. Mason, "The Performative Ground of Religion and Theatre" (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 17, 2019
Jules Evans, "The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience" (Canongate Books, 2017)
Mar 28, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Bernadete Barton, "Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers" (NYU Press, 2017)
Feb 28, 2019
Victoria Fortuna, "Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Dec 28, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Halifu Osumare, “Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir” (UP of Florida, 2018)
Jun 04, 2018
Marc Hertzman, “Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil” (Duke UP, 2013)
Apr 19, 2018
miriam cooke, “Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution” (Routledge, 2017)
Jan 02, 2018
Edward Ross Dickinson, “Dancing in the Blood” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Dec 29, 2017
Mark Fleischman, “Inside Studio 54” (Rare Bird Books, 2017)
Dec 08, 2017
Julia Fawcett, “Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
Oct 09, 2017
Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 07, 2017
Dana Mills, “Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries” (Manchester University Press, 2017)
Jul 10, 2017
Carrie J. Preston, “Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Mar 29, 2017
Anthea Kraut, “Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jun 23, 2016
James Nott, “Going to the Palais: A Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918-1960” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Mar 02, 2016
Clare Croft, “Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015
Bill T. Jones, “Story/Time: The Life of An Idea” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Mar 17, 2015
Wendy Oliver and Lindsay Guarino, eds., “Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches” (University Press of Florida, 2014)
Mar 10, 2015
Sherrie Tucker, “Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen” (Duke UP, 2014)
Jan 19, 2015
Rebecca Rossen, “Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Sep 13, 2014
Caitlin McDonald and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds., “Belly Dance Around the World” (McFarland, 2013)
Mar 19, 2014
Joshua Legg, “Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques” (Princeton Book Company, 2011)
Aug 27, 2013
Alexis Wilson, “Not So Black and White” (Tree Spirit Publishing, 2012)
Jun 03, 2013
Yael Tamar Lewin, “Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins” (Wesleyan UP, 2011)
Jan 11, 2013
Peggy Schwartz and Murray Schwartz, “The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus” (Yale UP, 2012)
Nov 02, 2012
Brenda Dixon Gottschild, “Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)
Aug 29, 2012
Andrew Field, “Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954” (The Chinese University Press, 2010)
Mar 07, 2012
Peter Filichia, “Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season 1959-2009” (Applause, 2010)
May 27, 2011
George Hunka, “Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros, and Contemporary Tragic Drama” (Eyecorner Press, 2011)
May 01, 2011
Martin Denton, “Plays and Playwrights 2011” (NYTE, 2011)
Apr 20, 2011
Pamela Cobrin, “From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage” (Delaware, 2009)
Apr 06, 2011