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East Asian Studies July 28, 2021

Cinema Off Screen

Moviegoing in Socialist China

Chenshu Zhou

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating …

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Latin American Studies July 20, 2021

The Invention of Latin American Music

A Transnational History

Pablo Palomino

Hosted by Patricio Simonetto
Pablo Palomino's The Invention of Latin American Music (Oxford UP, 2020) reconstructs the transnational history of the category of Latin American music during the first half of the twentieth century, from a longer …
East Asian Studies July 16, 2021

Circuit Listening

Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s

Andrew F. Jones

Hosted by Ed Pulford
Music from East Asia has recently been making its way round the world on waves created and mediated by new technologies and global interconnections. This may seem like something very …
Mobilities and Methods July 16, 2021

Blackness in Morocco

Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture

Cynthia J. Becker

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums …
Japanese Studies July 15, 2021

Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki’s Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour, part of the 33 1/3 music history and culture series, is a joyful romp through the career of the internationally successful Japanese trio …
Performing Arts July 14, 2021

Staging Lives in Latin American Theater

Bodies, Objects, Archives

Paola Hernández

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Paola Hernandez's book Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives (Northwestern UP, 2021) looks at a wide range of documentary theatre practices across South and Central America, including the …
Music July 13, 2021

Unbinding Gentility

Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

Candace Bailey

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Dr. Candace Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens …
Popular Culture July 9, 2021

Teen TV

Stefania Marghitu

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Stefania Marghitu's Teen TV (Routledge, 2021)explores the history of television's relationship to teens as a desired, but elusive audience, and the ways in which television has embraced youth subcultures, tracing …
Music July 7, 2021

An Unnatural Attitude

Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought

Benjamin Steege

Hosted by Eamonn Bell
“What are we thinking about when we think about music in non-naturalistic terms?” asks Benjamin Steege—Associate Professor of Music Theory, Columbia University—in his new book An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar …
Italian Studies July 5, 2021

A Companion to Federico Fellini

Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, Marita Gubareva

Hosted by Giancarlo Glombardi
Federico Fellini’s distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned Fellini scholar Frank …
Art June 30, 2021

Creating Spaces of Hope

Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt

Caroline Seymour-Jorn

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
It is now just over a decade since protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square started Egypt's chapter in the events of the Arab Spring. Much has been made in western criticism …
Performing Arts June 25, 2021

From Aphra Behn to Fun Home

A Cultural History of Feminist Theater

Carey Purcell

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Theatre has long been considered a feminine interest for which women consistently purchase the majority of tickets, while the shows they are seeing typically are written and brought to the …
Music June 24, 2021

George Frederick Bristow

Katherine K. Preston

Hosted by Kristen Turner
George Frederick Bristow, born in 1825, was a significant musical figure in the United States from the 1850s until his death in 1898. Now, almost one hundred years after his …
African American Studies June 23, 2021

Afro-Nostalgia

Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

Badia Ahad-Legardy

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Nostalgia has received increasing attention for its role in shaping contemporary social and political life in the United States. Dr. Badia Ahad-Legardy distinguishes Afro-Nostalgia as a framework to think about …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work June 22, 2021

Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies

Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity

Gemma Commane

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe …
Performing Arts June 21, 2021

Beeswing

Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

Richard Thompson

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Richard Thompson's Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 (Algonquin Books, 2021) gives fans of his music a tale as rollicking and entertaining as the reels and ballads he …
Japanese Studies June 18, 2021

Dancing the Dharma

Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater

Susan Blakeley Klein

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater (Harvard UP, 2020) examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh …
Asian Review of Books June 17, 2021

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Isabel Rosario Cooper, if mentioned at all by mainstream history books, is often a salacious footnote: the young Filipino mistress of General Douglas MacArthur, hidden away at the Charleston Hotel …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight June 17, 2021

Face

A Visual Odyssey

Jessica Helfand

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Jessica Helfand about her new book Face: A Visual Odyssey (MIT Press, 2019) Helfand is a designer, artist, and author. She’s taught at Yale University for more …
African American Studies June 16, 2021

When Sunday Comes

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel, When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras …