New Books in Performing Arts
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Christopher Bayes, "Discovering the Clown, or T...
55 min
1077
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in th...
Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...
30 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tas...
Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...
33 min
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Shelby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Dr...
Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...
52 min
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Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Ma...
This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...
47 min
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Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Da...
What is “Chinese dance,” how did it take shape in during China’s socialist period, and how has this socialist form continued to influence Post-Mao expressive cultures in the People’s Republic of China?
64 min
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David V. Mason, "The Performative Ground of Rel...
To what extent may we say that religion is a theatrical phenomenon, and that theatre is a religious experience?
51 min
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Jules Evans, "The Art of Losing Control: A Phil...
Evans sets out to discover how people find ecstasy in a post-religious culture, how it can be good for us, and also harmful...
71 min
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Bernadete Barton, "Stripped: More Stories from ...
Women get into stripping for money, writes Dr. Bernadete Barton, and the experience the girls have throughout their career in exotic dancing varies...
56 min
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Victoria Fortuna, "Moving Otherwise: Dance, Vio...
Victoria Fortuna's new book Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires (Oxford University Press, 2018) examines the different ways in which contemporary dance practices have engaged in resistance...
36 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Halifu Osumare, “Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir...
Combining memoir with auto-ethnography, historical study and sociocultural analysis, Halifu Osumare draws on her decades of experience to explore the complexities of black dance in the United States. Starting in San Francisco during the rise of the Bla...
30 min
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Marc Hertzman, “Making Samba: A New History of ...
In Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013), Marc Hertzman revisits the history of Brazil’s quintessential music and dance genre to explore the links between popular music, intellectual property, law,
46 min
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miriam cooke, “Dancing in Damascus: Creativity,...
The Syrian Revolution, which began in March 2011, has since resulted in what can be described as a civil war, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and the forced migrations of millions of Syrians.
61 min
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Edward Ross Dickinson, “Dancing in the Blood” (...
In his new book, Dancing in the Blood: Modern Dance and European Culture on the Eve of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Edward Ross Dickinson charts the development of modern dance in the turbulent decades of the early twentieth ...
30 min
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Mark Fleischman, “Inside Studio 54” (Rare Bird ...
Studio 54 opened its doors 40 years ago and since that time it has held a place in American popular culture. Studio 54 was the place to go dancing to great music, mingle with celebrities and beautiful people, and do drugs night after night.
51 min
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Julia Fawcett, “Spectacular Disappearances: Cel...
“How can the modern individual maintain control over his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching?” This is the question that prompts Julia Fawcett‘s new book, Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy,
33 min
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Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and th...
By drawing on a vast, never-utilized trove of archival materials along with oral histories, choreographic analysis, and embodied research, Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford University Press,
46 min