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Lisa B. Thompson, “Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays” (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Lisa B. Thompson
Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues
Three Plays
Northwestern University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing Arts October 23, 2020 Andy Boyd

Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright. Her latest book Underground, Monroe, and the Mamalogues: Three Plays (Northwestern University Press 2020) collects plays from throughout her two decades as a playwright. “Underground” is a tense two-hander exploring themes of... Read More
Robert Bartlett, “Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy” (U California Press, 2020)
Robert Bartlett
Against Demagogues
What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 21, 2020 Andy Boyd

With Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy (University of California Press, 2020) Robert Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,... Read More
Eric San Juan, “The Films of Martin Scorsese: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
Eric San Juan
The Films of Martin Scorsese
Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt
Rowman and Littlefield, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books Network October 20, 2020 Joel Tscherne

Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese. His inventiveness displays a reaction against the “right” way to make a movie, frequently eschewing traditional cinematic language in favor of something flashy, unexpected and contrary to the way “proper” films are done.... Read More
Chinua Thelwell, “Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond” (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Chinua Thelwell
Exporting Jim Crow
Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 20, 2020 Amanda Joyce Hall

Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) by Dr. Chinua Thelwell is a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.” In tracing minstrel globalization across the Anglo-colonial and British imperial worlds beginning... Read More
Ahalya Satkunaratnam, “Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharatanatyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka” (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict
Practicing Bharatanatyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Wesleyan University Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 15, 2020 Preethi Ramaprasad

“How can dance be sustained by its practitioners in the unstable political and geographical landscape of war?” Satkunaratnam asks this through her text, Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharatanatyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Wesleyan UP, 2020), a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil... Read More
Yvonne Rainer, “Revisions: Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others” (No Place Press, 2020)
Yvonne Rainer
Revisions
Essays by Apollo Musagète, Yvonne Rainer, and Others
No Place Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books Network October 14, 2020 Andy Boyd

Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers. After studying with Merce Cunningham she co-founded the Judson Dance Theater, a center of post-modern dance whose influence far outlasted its three years of existence. In the 1970s Rainer transitioned into film directing. She released seven feature films between 1972... Read More
Joel Miller, “Memoir of a Roadie: Axl Said I made a Great Cup of Tea…” (2020)
Joel Miller
Memoir of a Roadie
Axl said I made a great Cup of Tea…Scott Weiland liked The Carpenters…and Ozzy Drinks Rosé
Joel Miller, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MusicNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Popular Culture October 13, 2020 Rebekah Buchanan

In his new book, Memoir of a Roadie: Axl said I made a great Cup of Tea…Scott Weiland liked The Carpenters…and Ozzy Drinks Rosé (2020) Joel Miller recounts his time in the early 2000s as a road for Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, Poison, and The Cranberries. Using his journal... Read More
Dave O’Brien, “Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries” (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dave O’Brien
Culture is Bad for You
Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Manchester University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the DayNBN Special SeriesNew Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in Sociology October 12, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

It would be hard to overstate the importance of culture. It teaches us, heals us, rips us apart and puts us back together in new and surprising ways. Given its fundamental importance to the human experience, it would make sense that looking at the sort of people who produce it... Read More
William P. Seeley, “Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts” (Oxford UP, 2020)
William P. Seeley
Attentional Engines
A Perceptual Theory of the Arts
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MusicNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology October 12, 2020 Carrie Figdor

How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it? In Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts (Oxford University Press, 2020), William Seeley offers a cognitive science-based account of how we engage with art, what it is that artworks do,... Read More
Jill Richards, “The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes” (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jill Richards
The Fury Archives
Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes
Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Politics & Society October 8, 2020 Andy Boyd

In The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Columbia UP 2020), Jill Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism, Dada, and futurism. Using case studies including the movement for a proletarian birth strike, the anti-Nazi... Read More

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