New Books in Performing Arts

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  • Gwynne Kuhner Brown, "William L. Dawson" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
    Jun 8, 2025 – 01:08:56
  • Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 58:26
  • Donall Mac Cathmhaoill, "Theatres of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Winning the Peace" (University of Exeter Press, 2024)
    Jun 7, 2025 – 01:37:30
  • Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
    May 31, 2025 – 43:20
  • Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:11:50
  • Heist
    May 28, 2025 – 22:43
  • Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    May 23, 2025 – 01:26:23
  • Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 22, 2025 – 51:39
  • M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
    May 20, 2025 – 58:47
  • Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 16, 2025 – 01:20:03
  • Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
    May 15, 2025 – 57:15
  • Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
    May 14, 2025 – 54:31
  • Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    May 13, 2025 – 50:11
  • The Fisher King
    May 12, 2025 – 27:01
  • Ariel Nereson, "Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
    May 11, 2025 – 32:04
  • Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
    May 8, 2025 – 01:05:20
  • John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
    May 7, 2025 – 56:12
  • Robin Miles: Talking Books
    May 6, 2025 – 01:14:29
  • Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)
    May 5, 2025 – 01:29:18
  • Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison, "Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
    May 4, 2025 – 41:06
  • Yuma Hampejs and Marcel Schulze, "Electronic Body Music" (Mionaetti, 2024)
    Apr 30, 2025 – 45:29
  • Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
    Apr 25, 2025 – 01:12:55
  • Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
    Apr 21, 2025 – 01:00:48
  • Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 01:16:38
  • Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)
    Apr 15, 2025 – 01:10:32
  • David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Apr 12, 2025 – 01:11:24
  • Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    Apr 8, 2025 – 01:01:31
  • Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:04
  • Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
    Apr 2, 2025 – 58:46
  • Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
    Mar 29, 2025 – 40:28
  • Koen Galle, "Fuse, Thirty Years of Making Noise" (AfterClub, 2024)
    Mar 28, 2025 – 34:41
  • Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Mar 25, 2025 – 01:04:50
  • Simon Morrison, "Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer" (Yale UP, 2024)
    Mar 25, 2025 – 37:10
  • Holly Grout, "Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France" (LSU Press, 2024)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 48:59
  • Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
    Mar 14, 2025 – 01:08:00
  • Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
    Mar 8, 2025 – 51:14
  • Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
    Mar 7, 2025 – 26:41
  • Georgia Finnegan, "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" (Afton Historical Society, 2024)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 52:15
  • Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
    Mar 6, 2025 – 57:27
  • Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Mar 5, 2025 – 50:15
  • Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
    Mar 5, 2025 – 01:11:59
  • Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)
    Mar 5, 2025 – 01:00:19
  • Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
    Mar 4, 2025 – 46:24
  • Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
    Mar 4, 2025 – 56:34
  • William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
    Feb 25, 2025 – 46:55
  • Joseph Straus, "Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians" (Routledge, 2024)
    Feb 15, 2025 – 43:50
  • Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
    Feb 14, 2025 – 01:01:19
  • Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
    Feb 10, 2025 – 34:17
  • Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Feb 9, 2025 – 49:29
  • Réjane Dreifuss et al., "Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers" (Transcript Publishing, 2024)
    Feb 8, 2025 – 32:33
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