New Books in Performing Arts
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1001
André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
An interview with André Gregory
50 min
1002
Guojun Wang, "Staging Personhood: Costuming in ...
An interview with Guojun Wang
62 min
1003
David Chaffetz, "Three Asian Divas: Women, Art ...
An interview with David Chaffetz
38 min
1004
Bringing the Story to the Streets: If God is De...
An interview with Mirella Klomp
16 min
1005
Mike Anthony, "Life at Hamilton: Sometimes You ...
An interview with Mike Anthony
58 min
1006
Gerry Smyth, "Sailor Song: The Shanties and Bal...
An interview with Gerry Smyth
53 min
1007
Andy Boyd, "The Trade Federation or Let's Explo...
Interview with Andy Boyd
54 min
1008
Mark Nowak, "Social Poetics" (Coffee House Pres...
An interview with Mark Nowak
50 min
1009
Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden ...
An interview with Trevor C. Pederson
69 min
1010
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
1011
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis...
Interview with Tom Boniface-Webb
67 min
1012
Edwin Wilson, "Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on T...
An interview with Edwin Wilson
36 min
1013
Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitc...
An interview with Dan Callahan
58 min
1014
Laurent Fintoni, "Bedroom Beats & B-Sides: Inst...
An interview with Laurent Fintoni
53 min
1015
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
1016
Waleed F. Mahdi, "Arab Americans in Film: From ...
How are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves?
64 min
1017
Noel John Pinnington, "A New History of Medieva...
Pinnington traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts...
45 min
1018
Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work...
Hampton offers a fascinating and meticulous study of Bob Dylan's songwriting craft...
58 min
1019
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global...
One place that might surprise a lot of people is the popularity of performances staged by incarcerated persons...
60 min
1020
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embody...
Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...
45 min
1021
Harmony Bench, "Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digita...
Bench traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today.,,
48 min
1022
David Adjmi, "Lot Six" (Harper, 2020)
Adjmi’s memoir also traces his evolving relationship with his family and his community, from whom he desires to escape even as he finds himself drawn continually back to them...
57 min
1023
Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: T...
Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...
49 min
1024
Liza Black, "Picturing Indians: Native American...
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...
36 min
1025
George Musgrave, "Can Music Make You Sick?: Mea...
The authors propose that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic...
50 min