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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
1077
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mary Kathryn Nagle, "Sovereignty" (Northwestern...
How can Cherokee people fight for justice under an unjust colonial legal framework?
45 min
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Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cogni...
Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...
52 min
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Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carn...
Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...
60 min
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Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Sur...
Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...
65 min
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C. Jester and C. Svich, "Fifty Playwrights on t...
Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....
46 min
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Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical...
What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?
47 min
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Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Len...
The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.
45 min
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Grace Elizabeth Hale, "Cool Town: How Athens, G...
Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the epic story of the Athens, Georgia music scene...
80 min