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Yiu Fai Chow et al., "It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
62 hours 5 mins; September 07, 2024
Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
54 mins; September 06, 2024
John S. Garrison, "Red Hot + Blue" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
46 mins; September 02, 2024
Steven Watts, "Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
36 mins; August 31, 2024
Tarryn Li-Min Chun, "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024), "Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
68 hours 22 mins; August 30, 2024
Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
57 mins; August 28, 2024
Christopher Brown, "Mapping Taiwanese Cinema, 2008-2020: Environments, Poetics, Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
81 hours 47 mins; August 27, 2024
Sara Farrington, "A Trojan Woman Adapted from Euripides" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2024)
26 mins; August 27, 2024
Jennifer Ponce de LeĂłn, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
65 hours 52 mins; August 23, 2024
Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 36 mins; August 19, 2024
The Sounds of Silents
47 mins; August 19, 2024
Alonso Duralde, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film" (Running Press Adult, 2024)
59 mins; August 14, 2024
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
39 mins; August 11, 2024
Marissa Nicosia, "Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660" (Oxford UP, 2023)
46 mins; August 11, 2024
George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
90 hours 12 mins; August 10, 2024
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, "What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service" (Dutton, 2024)
63 hours 30 mins; August 07, 2024
Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024)
67 hours 43 mins; August 06, 2024
Franz Nicolay, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music" (U Texas Press, 2024)
41 mins; August 06, 2024
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
60 hours 16 mins; August 04, 2024
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
77 hours 16 mins; August 04, 2024
Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; August 03, 2024
Jim Higgins, "Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground" (Trouser Press, 2024)
50 mins; July 30, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left" (Akashic Books, 2024)
52 mins; July 27, 2024
Kathleen Loock, "Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 10 mins; July 27, 2024
Lindsay Goss, "F*ck The Army!: How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War" (NYU Press, 2024)
40 mins; July 27, 2024
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
58 mins; July 26, 2024
Miguel Escobar Varela, "Theater as Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
36 mins; July 24, 2024
Patrick McKelvey, "Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation" (NYU Press, 2024)
62 hours 23 mins; July 23, 2024
Charles Barr, "British Cinema: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 0 mins; July 23, 2024
Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
69 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2024
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
53 mins; July 17, 2024
Melissa E. Anderson, "Inland Empire" (Fireflies Press, 2021)
57 mins; July 16, 2024
Helen Freear-Papio and Candyce Crew Leonard, "The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain" (Vernon Press, 2022)
54 mins; July 16, 2024
Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 6 mins; July 16, 2024
Emily J. Lordi, "The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s" (Duke UP, 2020)
57 mins; July 15, 2024
Pamela Hutchinson, "The Red Shoes" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
51 mins; July 14, 2024
AI and Music: The Future is Here (featuring "There I Ruined It")
60 hours 34 mins; July 13, 2024
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, "Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism" (Lexington, 2023)
53 mins; July 12, 2024
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
49 mins; July 12, 2024
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
99 hours 3 mins; July 10, 2024
Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024)
50 mins; July 09, 2024
Breathing Together
44 mins; July 08, 2024
Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
57 mins; July 07, 2024
Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Barbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 53 mins; June 27, 2024
Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
51 mins; June 24, 2024
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
90 hours 26 mins; June 23, 2024
Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
54 mins; June 23, 2024
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
48 mins; June 21, 2024
Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; June 17, 2024
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
64 hours 58 mins; June 14, 2024
Laura Davis-Chanin and Liz Lamere, "Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega" (Backbeat Books, 2024)
59 mins; June 11, 2024
Timothy P. Storhoff, "Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
59 mins; June 09, 2024
Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
77 hours 56 mins; June 05, 2024
Tara LĂłpez, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)
51 mins; June 04, 2024
RamĂłn Espejo, "The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues" (Legenda, 2024)
31 mins; June 02, 2024
Robert Phillip Kolker and Marsha Gordon, "Film, Form, and Culture" (Routledge, 2024)
58 mins; May 30, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 18 mins; May 28, 2024
Bodie A. Ashton, "The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
59 mins; May 28, 2024
Nicholas Taylor-Collins, "Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature" (Manchester UP, 2022)
61 hours 15 mins; May 24, 2024
Nicholas Underwood, "Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France" (Indiana UP, 2022)
64 hours 6 mins; May 21, 2024
Rob Drew, "Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable" (Duke UP, 2023)
44 mins; May 20, 2024
James A. Cosby, "Rock Music, Authority and Western Culture, 1964-1980" (McFarland, 2024)
42 mins; May 19, 2024
Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2024
Douglas L. Reside, "Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory" (Oxford UP, 2023)
56 mins; May 15, 2024
Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
49 mins; May 14, 2024
Alyxandra Vesey, "Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century" (Oxford UP, 2023)
85 hours 9 mins; May 11, 2024
Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
73 hours 21 mins; May 08, 2024
Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022)
44 mins; May 07, 2024
Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
74 hours 59 mins; May 05, 2024
Patrick Humphries, "Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios" (History Press, 2023)
53 mins; May 04, 2024
Kristi Irene McKim, "Rushmore" (British Film Institute, 2023)
83 hours 56 mins; May 03, 2024
Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
46 mins; May 02, 2024
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 01, 2024
Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 30, 2024
Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
61 hours 36 mins; April 27, 2024
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, "Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
50 mins; April 26, 2024
Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
48 mins; April 24, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
35 mins; April 17, 2024
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
77 hours 57 mins; April 15, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
30 mins; April 14, 2024
Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38 mins; April 06, 2024
Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
57 mins; April 05, 2024
Jane M. Ferguson, "Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
48 mins; April 05, 2024
Daniel de Visé, "The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic" (Grove Atlantic, 2024)
58 mins; April 04, 2024
Edward Dusinberre, "Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
56 mins; April 04, 2024
Richard Beaudoin, "Sounds As They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings" (Oxford UP, 2024)
84 hours 42 mins; April 02, 2024
Sam McPheeters, "Mutations: Twenty Years Embedded in Hardcore Punk" (Barnacle Book, 2020)
49 mins; March 28, 2024
Melodrama
22 mins; March 24, 2024
Caste, Music, and Microinequities with Supriya Subramani
32 mins; March 23, 2024
Radha Kapuria, "Music in Colonial Punjab" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 24 mins; March 21, 2024
Ellen E. Jones, "Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
48 mins; March 16, 2024
Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
54 mins; March 15, 2024
Jonas Tinius, "State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
53 mins; March 15, 2024
Gavin Butt, "No Machos Or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk" (Duke UP, 2022)
48 mins; March 13, 2024
David Savran, "Tell It to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; March 11, 2024
Reading Taylor Swift as a Cultural and Political Text
64 hours 56 mins; March 11, 2024
Xin Gu, "Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries" (Routledge, 2023)
49 mins; March 11, 2024
Priyanka Basu, "The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia" (Routledge, 2023)
37 mins; March 06, 2024
Anna Dako, "Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the HumanNature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing" (Intellect Books, 2023)
58 mins; March 03, 2024
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