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Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Per...
Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world...
47 min
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Megan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy End...
Sandberg-Zakian makes a powerful case for “militant optimism” in an age of chaos...
67 min
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Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Mus...
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...
51 min
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Warren Hoffman, "The Great White Way: Race and ...
Hoffman explores the ways that race and racism have shaped the American musical from Show Boat to Hamilton....
53 min
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Neil Shister, "Radical Ritual: How Burning Man ...
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...
58 min
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation ...
Szwydky explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more...
60 min
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Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and ...
Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer...
53 min
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Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the...
Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...
57 min
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Robert Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aris...
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,..
47 min
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Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface...
Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”
74 min
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Eric San Juan, "The Films of Martin Scorsese: G...
Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...
58 min
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Ahalya Satkunaratnam, "Moving Bodies, Navigatin...
How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?
42 min
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Yvonne Rainer, "Revisions: Essays by Apollo Mus...
Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...
43 min
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Joel Miller, "Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I ma...
Joel Miller recounts his time in the early 2000s as a road for Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, Poison, and The Cranberries...
59 min
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Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequali...
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.
54 min
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William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perc...
How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?
62 min
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Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citiz...
Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..
49 min
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Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Man...
Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...
58 min
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Fabian Holt, "Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theo...
Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades...
57 min
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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...
66 min
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Karen Quigley, "Performing the Unstageable: Suc...
From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas...
40 min
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Silviana Wood, "Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays" ...
Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre...
42 min
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Bethany Klein, "Selling Out: Culture, Commerce ...
Klein explores the relationship between music and money, from the early years of the pop industry to contemporary society’s ‘promotional culture’...
40 min
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Jack Santino, "Public Performances: Studies in ...
Santino offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share...
65 min
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Anne García-Romero, "The Fornes Frame" (U Arizo...
Playwright and theatre scholar Anne García-Romero traces the career and legacy of Maria Irene Fornes.
51 min