New Books in Performing Arts
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Sean F. Edgecomb, "Charles Ludlam Lives!" (U Mi...
Playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam (1943-87) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s...
42 min
1102
Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
1103
James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided Americ...
Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...
67 min
1104
Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performativ...
Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..
61 min
1105
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1106
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare...
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?
42 min
1107
Jacki Apple, "Performance / Media / Art / Cultu...
These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...
101 min
1108
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Work...
Can care be enacted through art?
48 min
1109
Christopher Bayes, "Discovering the Clown, or T...
55 min
1110
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1111
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
1112
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1113
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
1114
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
1115
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1116
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1117
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
1118
Shelby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Dr...
Schwartz covers four decades of drag dances, exploring the politics of gender in motion...
52 min
1119
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
1121
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
1122
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
1123
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
1124
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