New Books in Performing Arts
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Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in ...
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Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodi...
52 min
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Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" ...
An interview with Diana Souhami
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Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: ...
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Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Pr...
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Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Mu...
An interview with Christopher M. Reali
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Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
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"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
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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....
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Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Di...
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Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (...
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Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Buskin...
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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...
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Charlotte Bentley, "New Orleans and the Creatio...
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Lost Women of Disco
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Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
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Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotifie...
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Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germ...
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Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (...
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Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club ...
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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 ...
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Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atla...
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John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-...
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Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Em...
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Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The ...
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