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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
1027
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
1028
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
1029
Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Margin...
Westengard examines the intersection of queerness and the gothic...
60 min
1030
Co-Authored: A Discussion of "The Party Decides"
"The Party Decides" is the most (only?) meme'd book in the history of political science.
34 min
1031
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Securi...
Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....
46 min
1032
Chantal Bilodeau, "Forward" (Tanlonbooks 2018)
Chantal Bilodeau has made a name for herself a playwright singularly dedicated to writing plays about the issue of climate change...
49 min
1033
Annie-B Parson, "Drawing the Surface of Dance: ...
"Drawing the Surface of Dance" collects thirty years of “charts” by renowned choreographer and co-founder of Big Dance Theater Annie-B Parson...
62 min
1034
Adam Broinowski, "Cultural Responses to Occupat...
Broinowski analyzes the emergence of Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) in the context of America’s de jure and then de facto occupation of Japan following the Second World War...
68 min
1035
Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay In...
Khubchandani follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago...
47 min
1036
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epi...
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....
65 min
1037
F. Henry and D. Plaza, "Carnival Is Woman: Femi...
Henry and Plaza examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which they participate in the festivities...
71 min
1038
L. D'Amour and K. Pearl, "Milton: A Performance...
In 2012, Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl--known collectively as PearlDamour--began visiting five small American towns named Milton....
60 min
1039
Lauren Michele Jackson, "White Negroes: When Co...
Jackson demonstrates that cultural appropriation (especially of Black culture by white artists) is prevalent and deeply rooted in America’s history of inequality...
59 min
1040
Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African...
Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.
31 min
1041
Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life an...
In 1933, the Chicago Symphony performed the Symphony in E Minor by Florence B. Price. It was the first time a major American orchestra played a composition by an African American woman...
54 min
1042
Karen Patel, "The Politics of Expertise in Cult...
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...
36 min
1043
Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting...
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...
46 min
1044
Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: T...
Atkins draws back the curtain on the origin of the exclusive Mardi Gras balls, bringing to light unique traditions unseen by outsiders...
63 min
1045
Caridad Svich, "Mitchell and Trask’s Hedwig and...
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...
48 min
1046
Sunny Stalter-Pace, "Imitation Artist: Gertrude...
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.
54 min
1047
Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Fem...
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min
1048
Kevin J. Byrne, "Minstrel Traditions: Mediated ...
Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...
64 min
1049
Mary Kathryn Nagle, "Sovereignty" (Northwestern...
How can Cherokee people fight for justice under an unjust colonial legal framework?
45 min
1050
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cogni...
Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...
52 min