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Arts
Performing Arts
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Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reaso...
95 min
52
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting ...
An interview with Peter C. Zimmerman
53 min
53
Bradley Morgan, "U2: Until the End of the World...
32 min
54
Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern
59 min
55
Christa Anne Bentley et al, eds., "Taylor Swift...
67 min
56
Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Maki...
29 min
57
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Wo...
An interview with Mary Beth Willard
65 min
58
Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in ...
55 min
59
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodi...
52 min
60
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" ...
An interview with Diana Souhami
35 min
61
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: ...
51 min
62
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Pr...
26 min
63
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Mu...
An interview with Christopher M. Reali
36 min
64
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
42 min
65
"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
67 min
66
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
67
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Di...
31 min
68
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (...
39 min
69
Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Buskin...
31 min
70
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
71
Charlotte Bentley, "New Orleans and the Creatio...
44 min
72
Lost Women of Disco
48 min
73
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popu...
An interview with Kelefa Sanneh
58 min
74
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotifie...
46 min
75
Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germ...
28 min