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Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 22, 2025
M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
58 mins; May 20, 2025
Matthew Restall, "On Elton John: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2025)
80 hours 3 mins; May 16, 2025
Mayukh Sen, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star" (Norton, 2025)
57 mins; May 15, 2025
Annie Zaleski, "I Got You Babe: A Celebration of Cher" (Running Press Adult, 2025)
54 mins; May 14, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of Andraé Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
50 mins; May 13, 2025
The Fisher King
27 mins; May 12, 2025
Ariel Nereson, "Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
32 mins; May 11, 2025
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
65 hours 20 mins; May 08, 2025
John Lee Hooker Jr., "From the Shadow of the Blues: My Story of Music, Addiction, and Redemption" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
56 mins; May 07, 2025
Robin Miles: Talking Books
74 hours 29 mins; May 06, 2025
Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)
89 hours 18 mins; May 05, 2025
Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison, "Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music" (Reaktion Books, 2025)
41 mins; May 04, 2025
Yuma Hampejs and Marcel Schulze, "Electronic Body Music" (Mionaetti, 2024)
45 mins; April 30, 2025
Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)
72 hours 55 mins; April 25, 2025
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
60 hours 48 mins; April 21, 2025
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
76 hours 38 mins; April 19, 2025
Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)
70 hours 32 mins; April 15, 2025
David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
71 hours 24 mins; April 12, 2025
Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
61 hours 31 mins; April 08, 2025
Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 4 mins; April 07, 2025
Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
58 mins; April 02, 2025
Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)
40 mins; March 29, 2025
Koen Galle, "Fuse, Thirty Years of Making Noise" (AfterClub, 2024)
34 mins; March 28, 2025
Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
64 hours 50 mins; March 25, 2025
Simon Morrison, "Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer" (Yale UP, 2024)
37 mins; March 25, 2025
Holly Grout, "Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France" (LSU Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 19, 2025
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
68 hours 0 mins; March 14, 2025
Ariane Sherine, "The Real Sinéad O'Connor" (White Owl, 2024)
51 mins; March 08, 2025
Richard Heppner, "Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars" (SUNY Press, 2024)
26 mins; March 07, 2025
Georgia Finnegan, "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota" (Afton Historical Society, 2024)
52 mins; March 06, 2025
Chris Alexander, "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema" (Headpress, 2025)
57 mins; March 06, 2025
Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)
60 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2025
Elizabeth T. Craft, "Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage" (Oxford UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 05, 2025
Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 59 mins; March 05, 2025
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, "Bong Joon Ho" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
46 mins; March 04, 2025
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
56 mins; March 04, 2025
William Burns, "Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror, and the Spectre of Nostalgia" (Headpress, 2025)
46 mins; February 25, 2025
Joseph Straus, "Cultural Narratives of Old Age in the Lives, Work, and Reception of Old Musicians" (Routledge, 2024)
43 mins; February 15, 2025
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 19 mins; February 14, 2025
Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
34 mins; February 10, 2025
Katie Beisel Hollenbach, "The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 09, 2025
RĂ©jane Dreifuss et al., "Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers" (Transcript Publishing, 2024)
32 mins; February 08, 2025
Samantha Ege, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
63 hours 31 mins; February 07, 2025
Robert Dayton, "Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam" (Feral House, 2024)
79 hours 7 mins; February 03, 2025
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
67 hours 1 min; January 20, 2025
Lily E. Hirsch, "Taking Funny Music Seriously" (Indiana UP, 2024)
60 hours 45 mins; January 17, 2025
Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 15, 2025
In One Ear, Out The Other
46 mins; January 06, 2025
Adam Zucker, "Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 2 mins; January 03, 2025
Randy Fertel, "Winging It: Improv’s Power & Peril in the Time of AI & Trump" (Spring, 2024)
44 mins; December 24, 2024
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
116 hours 31 mins; December 21, 2024
Toby Manning, "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" (Repeater, 2024)
21 mins; December 13, 2024
Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
69 hours 6 mins; December 12, 2024
Leah Kardos, "Kate Bush's Hounds of Love" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
62 hours 10 mins; December 11, 2024
Eric Drott, "Streaming Music, Streaming Capital" (Duke UP, 2024)
94 hours 12 mins; December 06, 2024
Biopic
18 mins; December 01, 2024
Chris Berry et al., "Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
45 mins; November 27, 2024
David Suisman, "Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
56 mins; November 25, 2024
Margaret Mehl, "Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert" (Open Book, 2024)
58 mins; November 23, 2024
Shalini Kakar, "Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
46 mins; November 21, 2024
Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
67 hours 44 mins; November 19, 2024
Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
53 mins; November 19, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
54 mins; November 18, 2024
Risk
20 mins; November 16, 2024
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
38 mins; November 16, 2024
Elsie Walker, "Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 43 mins; November 14, 2024
Lisa Nielson, "Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
114 hours 16 mins; November 12, 2024
Daniela Berghahn, "Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
40 mins; November 09, 2024
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
63 hours 50 mins; November 07, 2024
Roberto Morales-Harley, "The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater” (Open Book, 2024)
38 mins; November 07, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
52 mins; November 02, 2024
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
59 mins; November 01, 2024
Bihani Sarkar, "Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
84 hours 55 mins; October 30, 2024
Landon Palmer, "Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 37 mins; October 26, 2024
Megan Steigerwald Ille, "Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
51 mins; October 25, 2024
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
39 mins; October 20, 2024
Peter C. Kunze, "Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
68 hours 52 mins; October 19, 2024
Ashawnta Jackson, "Soul-Folk" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
70 hours 55 mins; October 19, 2024
Brad Balukjian, "The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania" (Hachette, 2024)
61 hours 45 mins; October 18, 2024
Ora Horn Prouser et al., "Under One Tent: Circus, Judaism, and Bible" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2023)
63 hours 48 mins; October 14, 2024
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; October 10, 2024
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
60 hours 1 min; October 08, 2024
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
58 mins; October 07, 2024
Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
47 mins; October 05, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
42 mins; October 05, 2024
Lynne B. Sagalyn, "Times Square Remade: The Dynamics of Urban Change" (MIT Press, 2023)
61 hours 7 mins; September 30, 2024
Konrad Bercovici, "The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch" (SUNY Press, 2024)
45 mins; September 28, 2024
Francesco Lotoro, "The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the Music of the Camps to the Ears of the World at Last" (Headline, 2024)
91 hours 55 mins; September 24, 2024
Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
39 mins; September 24, 2024
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
75 hours 8 mins; September 22, 2024
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)
40 mins; September 21, 2024
Sheri Chinen Biesen, "Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style" (Columbia UP, 2024)
66 hours 25 mins; September 18, 2024
Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 15 mins; September 14, 2024
Jennifer L. Lambe, "The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2024)
60 hours 44 mins; September 13, 2024
Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
98 hours 18 mins; September 13, 2024
Steve Jones, "The Metamodern Slasher Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
64 hours 28 mins; September 10, 2024
Trevor Boffone, "TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age" (Oxford UP, 2024)
62 hours 6 mins; September 08, 2024
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
72 hours 6 mins; September 07, 2024
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