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Performing Arts
Interviews with performing artists and scholars of the performing arts about their new books.
November 25, 2024
Instrument of War
In his new book, Instrument of War: Music and the Making of the America's Soldiers (University of Chicago Press, 2024), David Suisman shows that the U…
November 25, 2024
From Broadway to the Bronx
From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song (Intellect, 2024) tells the history of New York City in song across a variety of dif…
November 23, 2024
Music and the Making of Modern Japan
Margaret Mehl’s Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert (Open Book 2024) examines the ways in which Western classical (or “ar…
November 21, 2024
Devotional Fanscapes
Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) examines how fans…
November 19, 2024
Complicit Participation
In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complic…
November 19, 2024
Brassroots Democracy
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Wesleyan UP, 2024) recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orlean…
November 18, 2024
The Image Maker
In The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass Ceiling (2023), Connie DeNave shares her experiences in the public relations world during the Bri…
November 16, 2024
Historical Turns
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in …
November 15, 2024
Risk
In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in economics, athletics, sociology, or healthcare, risk …
November 14, 2024
Life 24x a Second
Life 24x a Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023) highlights the life-sustaining and life-affirming power of cinema. Author Elsie Wal…
November 14, 2024
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
For fans of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim is one of the true titans – the genius who brought us Sweeney Todd and West Side Story, Into the Woods, …
November 12, 2024
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expres…
November 9, 2024
Exotic Cinema
Daniela Berghahn's award-winning monograph Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film (Edinburgh UP, 2023) …
November 7, 2024
Backstage in Hong Kong
Today, the Hong Kong Philharmonic is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. But when John Duffus landed in Hong Kong in 1979 as the Philharmoni…
November 7, 2024
The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre
The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater (Open Book, 2024) presents a sophisticated and intricate examination …
November 2, 2024
The Sound of Difference
What happens when the elitist space of 'Western' classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity d…
October 30, 2024
Classical Sanskrit Tragedy
It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in Classical Sanskr…
October 26, 2024
Rock Star/Movie Star
During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studi…
October 25, 2024
Opera for Everyone
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a p…
October 20, 2024
Mobile Hollywood
What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production (U California Press, 2024), Kevin Sanson, Professor…