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Naphtaly Shem-Tov, "Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation" (Routledge, 2021)
80 hours 39 mins; August 25, 2021
Janaki Bakhle, "Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2005)
51 mins; August 25, 2021
Robert Lashley, "Green River Valley" (Blue Cactus Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 20, 2021
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, "Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
56 mins; August 16, 2021
Volodymyr Vynnychenko, "Disharmony and Other Plays" (CIUS Press, 2020)
55 mins; August 13, 2021
Julia Jarcho, "Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
51 mins; August 11, 2021
PĂĄraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 24 mins; August 11, 2021
Angela Williams, "Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East" (Peter Lang, 2020)
53 mins; August 06, 2021
Jill P. Ingram, "Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
64 hours 24 mins; August 06, 2021
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
66 hours 33 mins; August 06, 2021
Mark A. Johnson, "Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
59 mins; August 05, 2021
Malcolm James, "Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
38 mins; August 04, 2021
Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
73 hours 25 mins; August 04, 2021
Elizabeth B. Schwall, "Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2021)
54 mins; August 03, 2021
Diana Deutsch, “Believing Your Ears: Examining Auditory Illusions” (Open Agenda, 2021)
151 hours 7 mins; August 02, 2021
Joseph Curtin, “The Science of Siren Songs: Stradivari Unveiled” (Open Agenda, 2021)
101 hours 31 mins; July 30, 2021
Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)
57 mins; July 30, 2021
Chenshu Zhou, "Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China" (U California Press, 2021)
86 hours 20 mins; July 28, 2021
Pablo Palomino, "The Invention of Latin American Music" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; July 20, 2021
Andrew F. Jones, "Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
68 hours 9 mins; July 16, 2021
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
51 mins; July 16, 2021
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki, "Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
74 hours 26 mins; July 15, 2021
Paola HernĂĄndez, "Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
44 mins; July 14, 2021
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
67 hours 45 mins; July 14, 2021
Candace Bailey, "Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
60 hours 36 mins; July 13, 2021
Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, "Punks in Peoria: Making a Scene in the American Heartland" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
61 hours 37 mins; July 12, 2021
Ellen Seiter and Stefania Marghitu, "Teen TV" (Routledge, 2021)
84 hours 43 mins; July 09, 2021
Benjamin Steege, "An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
67 hours 46 mins; July 07, 2021
Jeanne Pitre Soileau, "Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
53 mins; July 06, 2021
Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
81 hours 2 mins; July 06, 2021
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
45 mins; July 05, 2021
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
61 hours 29 mins; June 29, 2021
Carey Purcell, "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
55 mins; June 25, 2021
Katherine K. Preston, "George Frederick Bristow" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
71 hours 16 mins; June 24, 2021
Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
52 mins; June 23, 2021
Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
58 mins; June 22, 2021
Richard Thompson, "Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
47 mins; June 21, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
65 hours 38 mins; June 18, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
42 mins; June 17, 2021
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
35 mins; June 17, 2021
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
65 hours 19 mins; June 16, 2021
Claudrena N. Harold, "When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
149 hours 10 mins; June 16, 2021
David Arditi, "Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
44 mins; June 16, 2021
Constance Congdon, "2 Washington Square" (ï»żBroadway Play Publishing, 2020)
51 mins; June 14, 2021
Douglas W. Shadle, "Antonín Dvoƙák's New World Symphony" (Oxford UP, 2021)
70 hours 0 mins; June 11, 2021
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
42 mins; June 10, 2021
W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
59 mins; June 09, 2021
CĂ©cile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)
52 mins; June 09, 2021
Jennifer Ponce de LeĂłn, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
65 hours 52 mins; June 09, 2021
Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
88 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2021
Axel Englund, "Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage" (U California Press, 2020)
43 mins; June 07, 2021
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
72 hours 19 mins; June 03, 2021
Erin Courtney, "Ann, Fran, and Mary Ann" (53rd State Press, 2020)
51 mins; June 01, 2021
Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualitĂ  nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)
62 hours 59 mins; May 31, 2021
K. E. Goldschmitt, "Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries" (Oxford UP, 2019)
61 hours 56 mins; May 28, 2021
Benjamin Piekut, "Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem" (Duke UP, 2019)
49 mins; May 28, 2021
Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)
33 mins; May 28, 2021
Katrina Phillips, "Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
57 mins; May 21, 2021
David Monod, "Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925" (UNC Press, 2020)
60 hours 11 mins; May 19, 2021
Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
55 mins; May 14, 2021
Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
54 mins; May 13, 2021
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
39 mins; May 13, 2021
Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 5 mins; May 11, 2021
Kate Dossett, "Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal" (UNC Press, 2020)
54 mins; May 10, 2021
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
47 mins; May 06, 2021
Amit Chaudhuri, "Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music" (NYRB, 2021)
44 mins; May 06, 2021
Maureen Mahon, "Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll" (Duke UP, 2020)
60 hours 1 min; May 04, 2021
Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
59 mins; April 30, 2021
Philip Auslander, "In Concert: Performing Musical Persona" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
54 mins; April 30, 2021
E. Patrick Johnson, "Sweet Tea: A Play" (Northwestern UP, 2011)
54 mins; April 29, 2021
Jack Black, "Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A Psychoanalytic Exploration" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 46 mins; April 28, 2021
Carrie Noland, "Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
49 mins; April 22, 2021
Bill Nowlin, "Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records" (Equinox, 2021)
45 mins; April 20, 2021
Felicia Rose Chavez, "The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom" (Breakbeat Poets, 2020)
60 hours 6 mins; April 20, 2021
R. Armstrong and R. Hughes "The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2020)
76 hours 8 mins; April 19, 2021
Joshua Bennett, "Owed" (Penguin, 2020)
68 hours 9 mins; April 19, 2021
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
72 hours 5 mins; April 13, 2021
Anne Searcy, "Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 57 mins; April 09, 2021
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 48 mins; April 06, 2021
Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
81 hours 32 mins; April 06, 2021
Amanda Ann Klein, "Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV's Transition to Reality Programming" (Duke UP, 2021)
55 mins; April 05, 2021
D. A. Miller, "Hidden Hitchcock" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
62 hours 3 mins; March 31, 2021
Jane Alison, "Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative" (Catapult, 2019)
43 mins; March 31, 2021
Nate Chinen, "Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century" (Vintage, 2019)
61 hours 20 mins; March 26, 2021
Rebecca Hope Dirksen, "After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
89 hours 53 mins; March 17, 2021
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
88 hours 8 mins; March 17, 2021
Richard Maxwell, "Evening Plays" (Theatre Communications Group, 2020)
44 mins; March 16, 2021
J. DeLapp-Birkett and Aaron Sherber, "Appalachian Spring: Original Ballet Version" (A-R Edtions, 2019)
60 hours 38 mins; March 15, 2021
Peter Langland-Hassan, "Explaining Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2020)
73 hours 4 mins; March 10, 2021
Xiaomei Chen, "Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda" (Columbia UP, 2016)
54 mins; March 10, 2021
Frances Galt, "Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries" (Bristol UP, 2020)
43 mins; March 05, 2021
Luc Sante, "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" (Verse Chorus Press, 2020)
47 mins; February 25, 2021
J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film" (Routledge, 2020)
49 mins; February 24, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks, "Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound" (Harvard UP, 2021)
85 hours 31 mins; February 23, 2021
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
46 mins; February 22, 2021
Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
44 mins; February 18, 2021
Howard Sherman, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
47 mins; February 14, 2021
Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema" (Palgrave, 2019)
66 hours 21 mins; February 05, 2021
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
53 mins; February 05, 2021
Kimberly Mack, "Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White" (U Mass Press, 2020)
47 mins; February 04, 2021
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