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Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)

Tracy Fessenden
Religion Around Billie Holiday

Penn State University Press, 2018

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network November 14, 2018 Kristian Petersen

Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic jazz performers of all time. Her voice is certainly unmistakable but for many her religious sensibilities may be invisible. In Religion Around Billie Holiday (Penn State University Press, 2018), Tracy Fessenden, Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at... Read More

Robert Grossmark
The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network November 14, 2018 Philip Lance

Can you be a relational analyst who is unobtrusive at the same time? In this book, Robert Grossmark makes a claim that you can and you should! He identifies a vulnerability of the relational style—being that it can place too much emphasis on reflective interactions between patient and therapist, where... Read More

Lee Bidgood, “Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe” (U Illinois Press, 2017)

Lee Bidgood
Czech Bluegrass
Notes from the Heart of Europe
University of Illinois Press, 2017

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Folklore New Books in Music New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society November 14, 2018 Rachel Hopkin

Although bluegrass music is typically associated with the bluegrass state of Kentucky and Appalachia, the genre is actually played in many pockets all around the world. In Czech Bluegrass: Notes from the Heart of Europe (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Lee Bidgood explores the popularity of bluegrass in the Czech Republic. Bidgood... Read More

Alisha Gaines, “Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy” (UNC Press, 2017)

Alisha Gaines
Black for a Day
White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
University of North Carolina Press, 2017

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 14, 2018 Adam McNeil

How does one show empathy towards someone across racial lines? In her new book Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) Dr. Alisha Gaines analyzes the history of sympathetic whites “becoming” temporarily black (often going beyond simple “blackface”) to understand (and explain to their... Read More

Mark Polizzotti
Sympathy for the Traitor
A Translation Manifesto
MIT Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Language New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 14, 2018 Nathan Bierma

The success of a translator may seem to lie in going unnoticed: the translator ducks out of the spotlight so that the original author may shine. Mark Polizzotti challenges that idea in a provocative treatise on his craft, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (MIT Press, 2018). “A good translation, created by... Read More