New Books in Performing Arts

Interviews with scholars of the performing arts about their new books

Arts
Performing Arts
1
Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in ...
55 min
2
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodi...
52 min
3
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" ...
An interview with Diana Souhami
35 min
4
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Pr...
26 min
5
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: ...
51 min
6
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Mu...
An interview with Christopher M. Reali
36 min
7
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
42 min
8
"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
67 min
9
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Ro...
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend....
68 min
10
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Di...
31 min
11
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (...
39 min
12
Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Buskin...
31 min
13
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcoc...
Isaacs offers the first book-length study to examine the historical foundations and stylistic mechanics of pure cinema...
66 min
14
Charlotte Bentley, "New Orleans and the Creatio...
44 min
15
Lost Women of Disco
48 min
16
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
58 min
17
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotifie...
46 min
18
Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germ...
28 min
19
Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club ...
57 min
20
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (...
37 min
21
S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)
In the second episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with Tony Zanetta. In the late 1960s, Zanetta worked in Off-Off-Broadway theater and ultimately landed a role playing the Andy Warhol character in Pork, an absurdist play based on Warhol’s phone recordings. Zanetta followed the cast to London where he befriended David Bowie who subsequently appointed him president of his management company, Main Man, and Bowie’s direct point of contact in America for the Ziggy Stardust tour ...
49 min
22
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atla...
70 min
23
John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-...
47 min
24
Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Em...
50 min
25
Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The ...
80 min