New Books in Performing Arts
Interviews with scholars of the performing arts about their new books
1
Christa Anne Bentley et al, eds., "Taylor Swift...
67 min
2
Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Maki...
29 min
3
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Wo...
An interview with Mary Beth Willard
65 min
4
Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in ...
55 min
5
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodi...
52 min
6
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" ...
An interview with Diana Souhami
35 min
7
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Pr...
26 min
8
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: ...
51 min
9
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Mu...
An interview with Christopher M. Reali
36 min
10
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
42 min
11
"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
67 min
12
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
13
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Di...
31 min
14
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (...
39 min
15
Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Buskin...
31 min
16
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
17
Charlotte Bentley, "New Orleans and the Creatio...
44 min
18
Lost Women of Disco
48 min
19
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
58 min
20
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotifie...
46 min
21
Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germ...
28 min
22
Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club ...
57 min
23
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (...
37 min
24
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
25
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atla...
70 min