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Justin Owen Rawlins, "Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; March 03, 2024
Joseph Cone, "Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective" (Routledge, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; March 03, 2024
Jesse David Fox, "Comedy Book:: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work" (FSG, 2023)
91 hours 52 mins; March 02, 2024
Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
89 hours 1 min; March 01, 2024
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama, "The Play of the Feminine" (HASP, 2023)
42 mins; February 29, 2024
Horace J. Maxile, Jr. and Kristen M. Turner, "Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's Guide" (Routledge, 2022)
33 mins; February 27, 2024
Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
35 mins; February 26, 2024
Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 20 mins; February 23, 2024
Kareem Khubchandani, "Decolonize Drag" (OR Books, 2023)
37 mins; February 14, 2024
Bryce Henson, "Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil" (U Texas Press, 2023)
71 hours 46 mins; February 07, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
57 mins; February 06, 2024
Mark Guarino, "Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
71 hours 6 mins; February 05, 2024
Murray Forman and Mark V. Campbell, "Hip Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production" (Intellect, 2023)
59 mins; February 04, 2024
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)
56 mins; February 04, 2024
Michael O'Malley, "The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; February 03, 2024
Sheila Marie Bock, "Claiming Space: Performing the Personal Through Decorated Mortarboards" (Utah State UP, 2023)
47 mins; February 02, 2024
Merin Shobhana Xavier, "The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
62 hours 0 mins; February 02, 2024
Andrew David Jackson, "The Late and Post-Dictatorship Cinephilia Boom and Art Houses in South Korea" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
66 hours 2 mins; January 30, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
53 mins; January 25, 2024
Aaron Carnes, "In Defense of Ska: The Ska Now More Than Ever Edition" (Clash Books, 2023)
69 hours 30 mins; January 21, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
64 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2024
Adriana Helbig, "ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; January 19, 2024
Aniefiok Ekpoudom, "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
38 mins; January 19, 2024
Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
82 hours 5 mins; January 15, 2024
Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
59 mins; January 13, 2024
Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
54 mins; January 13, 2024
Selby Wynn Schwartz, "The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their Afterlives" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
56 mins; January 11, 2024
Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
67 hours 28 mins; January 10, 2024
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" (U Texas Press, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; January 07, 2024
Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
38 mins; January 06, 2024
Plot
18 mins; January 04, 2024
W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
58 mins; January 03, 2024
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
75 hours 32 mins; January 01, 2024
Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
45 mins; December 30, 2023
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
62 hours 50 mins; December 26, 2023
Walter Greason and Tim Fielder, "The Graphic History of Hip Hop" (NYC Department of Education, 2023)
66 hours 34 mins; December 25, 2023
Nate Patrin, "The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
52 mins; December 23, 2023
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
90 hours 41 mins; December 23, 2023
Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
58 mins; December 18, 2023
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
42 mins; December 16, 2023
Between Jesus and Krishna: Christian Encounters with South Indian Temple Dance
32 mins; December 15, 2023
Rob Harvilla, "60 Songs That Explain The 90s" (Twelve, 2023)
53 mins; December 12, 2023
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
37 mins; December 11, 2023
Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
50 mins; December 09, 2023
Hilary French, "Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
42 mins; December 05, 2023
Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
49 mins; December 04, 2023
Daniel Herbert, "Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film" (U California Press, 2023)
80 hours 59 mins; December 02, 2023
Jackie Lubeck, "To The Good People of Gaza: Theatre for Young People by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
49 mins; December 02, 2023
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Witchcraft: France, 1790–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 8 mins; November 30, 2023
Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
59 mins; November 29, 2023
Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
58 mins; November 29, 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
45 mins; November 25, 2023
Mia Mask, "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
56 mins; November 24, 2023
Ina Rupprecht, ed., "Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45)" (Waxmann Verlag, 2020)
74 hours 51 mins; November 21, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
58 mins; November 17, 2023
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
57 mins; November 15, 2023
Brigid Cohen, "Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
63 hours 14 mins; November 15, 2023
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
81 hours 31 mins; November 11, 2023
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
81 hours 7 mins; November 10, 2023
What Reality TV Says About Us
44 mins; November 08, 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; November 08, 2023
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
77 hours 31 mins; November 07, 2023
Michael Kaler, "Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead" (Duke UP, 2023)
62 hours 57 mins; November 06, 2023
Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
70 hours 51 mins; November 05, 2023
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
52 mins; November 02, 2023
Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)
85 hours 16 mins; November 02, 2023
Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; November 02, 2023
Jennifer Saltzstein, "Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
63 hours 2 mins; November 01, 2023
Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
55 mins; October 31, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 3: The Language
27 mins; October 30, 2023
Henrik FĂźrst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
38 mins; October 30, 2023
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
45 mins; October 29, 2023
Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023)
45 mins; October 28, 2023
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023
Eric G. Wilson, "Point Blank" (British Film Institute, 2023)
46 mins; October 24, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 2: Characters and Questions
22 mins; October 23, 2023
Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
55 mins; October 21, 2023
Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
77 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2023
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 1: The Story
22 mins; October 16, 2023
Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023)
97 hours 44 mins; October 15, 2023
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
42 mins; October 11, 2023
Marlena Williams, "Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist" (Mad Creek Books, 2023)
59 mins; October 10, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 3: The Language
30 mins; October 09, 2023
Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
52 mins; October 07, 2023
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
64 hours 33 mins; October 06, 2023
Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023
Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
138 hours 3 mins; October 04, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
21 mins; October 02, 2023
Melanie Williams, "A Taste of Honey" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38 mins; October 01, 2023
Kiana Fitzgerald, "Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
45 mins; September 30, 2023
Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
72 hours 45 mins; September 28, 2023
Hieyoon Kim, "Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea" (U California Press, 2023)
59 mins; September 27, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
54 mins; September 26, 2023
Jonathan Mael, "Harlem World: How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 34 mins; September 26, 2023
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story
23 mins; September 25, 2023
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
54 mins; September 23, 2023
Kimberly Mack, "Living Colour's Time's Up" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
59 mins; September 19, 2023
Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
56 mins; September 18, 2023
Hongwei Bao, "Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2022)
38 mins; September 18, 2023
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 3: The Language
34 mins; September 18, 2023
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