Behind the braided wigs, buckskins, and excess bronzer that typified the mid-century "filmic Indian" lies a far richer, deeper history of Indigenous labor, survival, and agency...

The authors propose that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic...

Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together divers cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice....

Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....

The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...

Davila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists....

From glove puppets of Chinese origin and Hakka religious processions, to wartime political theatre and contemporary choirs and dance groups, the diverse performance practices of ethnic Chinese communities throughout Southeast Asia highlight the complexity of minority self-representation...

Mattson documents punk rock in the early 1980s through a comprehensive look into the music, zines, films, bands, and punk Do-It-Yourself (DIY) tactics...

What if the Haitian Revolution, perhaps the only “successful” Black revolution in history, weren’t over?

Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world...

Sandberg-Zakian makes a powerful case for “militant optimism” in an age of chaos...

Lordi takes on the challenge of explaining “soul,” through a book that zooms in and out between sweeping ideas about suffering and resilience in Black culture and fine-grained, close readings of individual performances by soul musicians...

Hoffman explores the ways that race and racism have shaped the American musical from Show Boat to Hamilton....

Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal democracy unravels. Burning Man’s contribution to this new order is postmodern, a fusion of sixties humanism with state-of-the-art Silicon Valley wizardry...

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...

Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...

Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...

Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,..

Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”

Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...

How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?

Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...

Joel Miller recounts his time in the early 2000s as a road for Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, Poison, and The Cranberries...

How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?

This book combines quantitative data analysis with personal interviews to weave together the complicated picture of who the people behind some of our most cherished experiences are.