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Danielle Bainbridge, "Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive" (NYU Press, 2026)
59 mins; April 03, 2026
John Kuhn, "Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
38 mins; March 27, 2026
Jewface: “Yiddish” Dialect Songs of Tin Pan Alley
78 hours 46 mins; March 16, 2026
Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
49 mins; March 13, 2026
Karen Schupp and Sherrie Barr eds., "Stories We Dance / Stories We Tell: Essays on Dance in Higher Education" (McFarland, 2025)
40 mins; February 15, 2026
Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
43 mins; February 14, 2026
Sourit Bhattacharya, "Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising" (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)
58 mins; February 13, 2026
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
63 hours 4 mins; February 09, 2026
Isaac Butler, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
91 hours 52 mins; February 08, 2026
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
42 mins; February 07, 2026
Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)
62 hours 35 mins; February 06, 2026
Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025)
63 hours 48 mins; February 05, 2026
Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)
46 mins; January 30, 2026
Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)
46 mins; January 30, 2026
Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)
70 hours 34 mins; January 30, 2026
163* The Drama of Celebrity with Sharon Marcus (JP)
32 mins; January 29, 2026
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; January 26, 2026
Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; January 26, 2026
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
57 mins; January 24, 2026
Kellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
44 mins; January 20, 2026
Christopher Lynch, "Formulating Foster: Stephen C. Foster and the Creation of a National Musical Myth" (Oxford UP, 2025)
61 hours 38 mins; January 19, 2026
Leah Lowthorp, "Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India" (Indiana UP, 2025)
57 mins; January 14, 2026
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 28 mins; January 11, 2026
Caitlin Vincent, "Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
40 mins; January 10, 2026
Anita Gonzalez, "Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
25 mins; January 09, 2026
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
47 mins; January 05, 2026
Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
69 hours 36 mins; January 05, 2026
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
60 hours 12 mins; January 05, 2026
Susan McCready, "Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
48 mins; January 02, 2026
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
71 hours 59 mins; December 31, 2025
J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich, "Stanley Kubrick's The Shining" (Taschen, 2023)
56 mins; December 31, 2025
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; December 30, 2025
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
46 mins; December 29, 2025
Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025)
38 mins; December 27, 2025
Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore
56 mins; December 23, 2025
Max Brzezinski, "Under Pressure: A Song by David Bowie and Queen" (Duke UP, 2025)
59 mins; December 19, 2025
Mark Deuze, "Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick" (Intellect Books, 2025)
66 hours 1 min; December 14, 2025
Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery, "Fela: Music Is the Weapon" (Amistad Press, 2025)
85 hours 0 mins; December 09, 2025
Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)
44 mins; December 05, 2025
Elliott Kalan, "Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
52 mins; December 04, 2025
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 9 mins; December 01, 2025
Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
84 hours 28 mins; November 30, 2025
Chris Yogerst, "The Warner Brothers" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
67 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2025
Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
64 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2025
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
48 mins; November 17, 2025
PĂĄraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 37 mins; November 16, 2025
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
61 hours 36 mins; November 16, 2025
Lucy Caplan, "Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera" (Harvard UP, 2025)
59 mins; November 15, 2025
Strings of Identity: The Horse-Head Fiddle and Mongolian Identity in China (with Ying Song)
37 mins; November 05, 2025
Jessica Doyle and Jordan Ferguson, "Dance Dance Revolution" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
36 mins; November 03, 2025
Janice Ross "The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design" (Oxford UP, 2025)
56 mins; October 28, 2025
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia
63 hours 34 mins; October 27, 2025
Julia Fawcett, "Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
44 mins; October 25, 2025
Julia Fawcett, "Movable Londons: Performance and the Modern City" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
44 mins; October 25, 2025
Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound" (U California Press, 2024)
100 hours 44 mins; October 21, 2025
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
56 mins; October 20, 2025
Bradley Morgan, "U2: Until the End of the World" (Weldon Owen, 2025)
34 mins; October 19, 2025
Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern
61 hours 42 mins; October 13, 2025
Christa Anne Bentley et al, eds., "Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans" (Routledge, 2025)
71 hours 42 mins; September 27, 2025
Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater" (Stanford UP, 2025)
32 mins; September 24, 2025
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
68 hours 14 mins; September 22, 2025
Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music" (Jawbone Press, 2025)
59 mins; September 05, 2025
Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
56 mins; September 02, 2025
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
38 mins; August 31, 2025
Nan Z. Da, The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (Princeton UP, 2025)
29 mins; August 21, 2025
Kathleen Wilson, "Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 21, 2025
Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
39 mins; August 17, 2025
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2025
"Swiz" (Akashic Books, 2025)
71 hours 30 mins; August 11, 2025
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
74 hours 5 mins; August 03, 2025
Sarah E. K. Smith, "Trading on Art: Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America" (UBC Press, 2025)
35 mins; August 02, 2025
Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)
44 mins; August 01, 2025
Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities" (Intellect, 2025)
35 mins; July 29, 2025
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcock and His Imitators" (Oxford UP, 2020)
72 hours 41 mins; July 27, 2025
Charlotte Bentley, "New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859" (U of Chicago Press, 2022)
49 mins; July 25, 2025
Lost Women of Disco
49 mins; July 22, 2025
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
63 hours 3 mins; July 20, 2025
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)
50 mins; July 18, 2025
Neil Gregor, "The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
32 mins; July 12, 2025
Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club Scene
59 mins; July 08, 2025
Nan Z. Da, "The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; July 08, 2025
S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)
51 mins; July 02, 2025
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1895" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
78 hours 32 mins; July 01, 2025
John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway" (Applause, 2024)
55 mins; June 28, 2025
Shayna M. Silverstein, "Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
58 mins; June 27, 2025
Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)
91 hours 12 mins; June 25, 2025
Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; June 21, 2025
Leah Lax, "Not From Here: the Song of America" (Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie, 2024)
27 mins; June 17, 2025
Frederick Reece, "Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon" (Oxford University Press, 2025)
64 hours 7 mins; June 17, 2025
Pamela Karimi, "Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran" (Leuven University Press, 2024)
61 hours 8 mins; June 14, 2025
John Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 11, 2025
antonio c. cuyler, "Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector" (Routledge, 2025)
42 mins; June 10, 2025
Gwynne Kuhner Brown, "William L. Dawson" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
68 hours 56 mins; June 08, 2025
Donall Mac Cathmhaoill, "Theatres of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Winning the Peace" (University of Exeter Press, 2024)
97 hours 30 mins; June 07, 2025
Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
58 mins; June 07, 2025
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
43 mins; May 31, 2025
Adi Nester, "Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish Identity" (Cornell UP, 2025)
71 hours 50 mins; May 30, 2025
Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)
91 hours 12 mins; May 29, 2025
Heist
22 mins; May 28, 2025
Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)
86 hours 23 mins; May 23, 2025
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