By analyzing the impact and importance of social media, the book offers an important insight into how inequality functions even where technology seems to offer an end to cultural hierarchy...

Witham traces Fried’s long career as a labor organizer and Communist Party militant, as well as the obsessive lengths the FBI went to in order to suppress his activism...

Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of the exclusive Mardi Gras balls, bringing to light unique traditions unseen by outsiders...

This book is Caridad Svich’s love letter to the 1998 musical that introduced the world to its favorite East German ex-pat genderqueer rock star, Hedwig...

Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and film after the Great War.

Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.

Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...

How can Cherokee people fight for justice under an unjust colonial legal framework?

Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...

Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...

Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...

Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....

What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?

The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.

Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the epic story of the Athens, Georgia music scene...

Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...

Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Zeitlin taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love,,,

Svich remains one of America’s most exciting playwrights, and this book collects some of her most invigorating work yet.

From backstage moms to tiny divas to dinner theatres, Wolf demonstrates that this charming pastime of American culture that is anything but past...

For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.