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Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
56 mins; July 19, 2022
Scott Meslow, "From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy" (Day Street, 2022)
66 hours 15 mins; July 18, 2022
Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
71 hours 2 mins; July 15, 2022
Tony Perman, "Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
42 mins; July 15, 2022
Jennifer Lin, "Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China" (Temple UP, 2022)
41 mins; July 14, 2022
Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 10 mins; July 11, 2022
Alison Macor, "Making The Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation" (U Texas Press, 2022)
71 hours 35 mins; July 08, 2022
Ben Davis, "Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
89 hours 29 mins; July 06, 2022
Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
58 mins; July 06, 2022
Mattin, "Social Dissonance" (MIT Press, 2022)
60 hours 44 mins; July 05, 2022
A. S. Hamrah, "The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018" (N+1 Books, 2018)
65 hours 58 mins; July 04, 2022
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
102 hours 46 mins; July 04, 2022
Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
56 mins; July 01, 2022
Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
69 hours 17 mins; July 01, 2022
G. Ronald Murphy, "Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City" (UNC Press, 2020)
44 mins; June 30, 2022
Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
82 hours 24 mins; June 30, 2022
José Rivera, "Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
45 mins; June 27, 2022
Alan Lane, "The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir" (Salamander Street, 2022)
42 mins; June 24, 2022
John Luther Adams, "Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska" (FSG, 2020)
58 mins; June 22, 2022
Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 21, 2022
Kira Thurman, "Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms" (Cornell UP, 2021)
66 hours 21 mins; June 21, 2022
Brian Kulick, "The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation" (Routledge, 2019)
64 hours 58 mins; June 20, 2022
Çigdem Çidam, "In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 15, 2022
Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
73 hours 1 min; June 15, 2022
Stan Lai, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
52 mins; June 14, 2022
Mark Anthony Neal, "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" (NYU Press, 2022)
68 hours 15 mins; June 10, 2022
Melissa Vosen Callens, "Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in 'Stranger Things' and 1980s Film" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
40 mins; June 09, 2022
Hentyle Yapp, "Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic" (Duke UP, 2021)
75 hours 3 mins; June 09, 2022
Trina Nileena Banerjee, "Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal" (Oxford UP, 2021)
51 mins; June 09, 2022
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
69 hours 14 mins; June 08, 2022
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
57 mins; June 08, 2022
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau et al., "Jazz in Socialist HĂ  Nội: Improvisations Between Worlds" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; June 08, 2022
Stephen Deusner, "Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers" (U Texas Press, 2021)
56 mins; June 08, 2022
Dustin Tahmahkera, "Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
65 hours 28 mins; June 07, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana GĂłmez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
67 hours 35 mins; June 07, 2022
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
56 mins; June 06, 2022
Daniel Fairfax, "The Red Years of Cahiers Du Cinéma (1968-1973)" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
79 hours 48 mins; June 03, 2022
Mickle Maher, "Six Plays" (Agate Press, 2022)
58 mins; June 03, 2022
James S. Bielo, "Materializing the Bible: Scripture, Sensation, Place" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
69 hours 20 mins; June 02, 2022
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, "When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today" (Harper, 2021)
61 hours 35 mins; June 01, 2022
Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
56 mins; June 01, 2022
Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
70 hours 49 mins; May 30, 2022
Mike Errico, "Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter" (Backbeat Book, 2022)
34 mins; May 26, 2022
Jami Rogers, "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans, 1966-2018: Integrating Shakespeare" (Arden Shakespeare, 2022)
51 mins; May 25, 2022
Alejandro Nava, "Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
50 mins; May 25, 2022
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
69 hours 7 mins; May 24, 2022
Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
57 mins; May 20, 2022
Sandra Johnston, et al., "Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020" (Intellect, 2022)
59 mins; May 16, 2022
Alvin Eng, "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond" (Fordham UP, 2022)
45 mins; May 16, 2022
Zachary F. Price, "Black Dragon: Afro-Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
199 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
Christopher Donoghue, "The Sociology of Bullying: Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents" (NYU Press, 2022)
30 mins; May 11, 2022
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, "From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 11, 2022
Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
42 mins; May 09, 2022
J. Lorenzo Perillo, "Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
52 mins; May 06, 2022
Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
69 hours 24 mins; May 06, 2022
Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
59 mins; May 04, 2022
Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)
65 hours 49 mins; May 04, 2022
Paul Geary, "Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants" (Intellect Books, 2022)
70 hours 35 mins; May 02, 2022
Nancy Barile, "I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion" (Bazillion Points, 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; April 28, 2022
Amanda D. Lotz, "Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars" (MIT Press, 2021)
75 hours 47 mins; April 27, 2022
Andy Bragen, "This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline: Two Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
48 mins; April 27, 2022
Rania Karoula, "The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
53 mins; April 22, 2022
Jared N. Champion and Peter C. Kunze, "Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians As Public Intellectuals" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
82 hours 7 mins; April 19, 2022
Patricia A. Banks, "Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America" (Stanford UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 19, 2022
Kenneth Partridge, "Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
45 mins; April 15, 2022
Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; April 14, 2022
Meredith Heller, "Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending" (Indiana UP, 2020)
56 mins; April 13, 2022
Yana Stainova, "Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
67 hours 11 mins; April 13, 2022
Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
70 hours 47 mins; April 12, 2022
David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
74 hours 1 min; April 11, 2022
Richard Brent Turner, "Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism" (NYU Press, 2021)
68 hours 8 mins; April 08, 2022
David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
54 mins; April 06, 2022
Louis K. Epstein, "The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France" (Boydell, 2021)
58 mins; April 06, 2022
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
50 mins; April 06, 2022
Chelsea Phillips, "Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800" (U of Delaware Press, 2022)
59 mins; April 04, 2022
Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
51 mins; April 01, 2022
Michael Spitzer, "The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
57 mins; March 30, 2022
Nick Marx, "Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television" (Indiana UP, 2019)
57 mins; March 30, 2022
Kate Guthrie, "The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain" (U California Press, 2021)
73 hours 14 mins; March 29, 2022
Liora Sarfati, "Contemporary Korean Shamanism: From Ritual to Digital" (Indiana UP, 2021)
78 hours 4 mins; March 25, 2022
Robert P. Kolker, "Triumph Over Containment: American Film in the 1950s" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
37 mins; March 25, 2022
Liz Clarke, "The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in US Silent Film" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
74 hours 12 mins; March 23, 2022
Deirdre NĂ­ Chonghaile, "Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: A Century of History and Practice" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
53 mins; March 18, 2022
Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
54 mins; March 17, 2022
René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
88 hours 12 mins; March 16, 2022
Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
53 mins; March 16, 2022
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; March 14, 2022
Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
50 mins; March 11, 2022
Uwe SchĂŒtte, "Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany" (Penguin, 2021)
56 mins; March 10, 2022
Larissa FastHorse, "The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?" (Theatre Communications Group, 2021)
58 mins; March 09, 2022
Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
56 mins; March 09, 2022
Vicki L. Brennan, "Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality" (Indiana UP, 2018)
62 hours 49 mins; March 08, 2022
Lynn Garafola, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 11 mins; March 08, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
82 hours 32 mins; March 08, 2022
James Lapine, "Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'" (FSG, 2021)
56 mins; March 04, 2022
William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
92 hours 48 mins; February 24, 2022
David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
50 mins; February 24, 2022
Rebecca Janzen, "Unholy Trinity: State, Church, and Film in Mexico" (SUNY Press, 2021)
54 mins; February 24, 2022
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; February 23, 2022
Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
70 hours 42 mins; February 14, 2022
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