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March 1, 2021
Damaged
Musicality and Race in Early American Punk
Evan Rapport
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed …
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Biography
March 1, 2021
The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn
Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen
Stephanie Russo
Hosted by Mark Klobas
In the centuries since her execution in 1536, Anne Boleyn’s presence in Western culture has grown to extraordinary proportions. In The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 25, 2021
Overground Railroad
The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Candacy Taylor about her book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Press, 2020) Taylor is an award-winning author …
Law
February 25, 2021
Protecting Art in the Street
A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti
Enrico Bonadio
Hosted by Nick Pozek
There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists’ …
National Security
February 23, 2021
Strategic Instincts
The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
Dominic D. P. Johnson
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
In Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2020), Dominic Johnson challenges the assumption that cognitive biases led to policy failures, disasters …
Popular Culture
February 23, 2021
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!
Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
Robert L. Stone
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended …
Italian Studies
February 19, 2021
The Photoromance
A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture
Paola Bonifazio
Hosted by Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Paola Bonifazio’s The Photoromance. A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture (MIT Press, 2020) is the first feminist reading of photoromances that examines both its industry and its fandom, arguing for …
Animal Studies
February 17, 2021
Phallacy
Life Lessons from the Animal Penis
Emily Willingham
Hosted by Emily Anthes
The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature did not shape the …
Gender Studies
February 15, 2021
MeToo
How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Hosted by Jana Byars
We are joined today by Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in the writers’ heaven that is Iowa City …
Performing Arts
February 15, 2021
Another Day's Begun
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century
Howard Sherman
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Howard Sherman's Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2021) provides a fascinating tour of contemporary productions of Wilder's great play. Why does this play from …
History
February 12, 2021
A History of the 20th Century
Conflict, Technology & Rock'n'roll
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black – professor of history at Exeter University, and one of the world’s most prolific writers – has just published an outstanding illustrated history of the twentieth century, in A …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 11, 2021
Bluegrass Ambassadors
The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World
Paul O. Jenkins
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Paul O. Jenkins about his book Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World (West Virginia UP, 2020). This episode covers a band that defies …
History
February 9, 2021
War Fever
Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante investigators aggressively sought to discredit anyone who …
Performing Arts
February 5, 2021
Fictional Blues
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Kimberly Mack
Hosted by Andy Boyd
The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity, and the violent stereotypes evoked …
History
February 2, 2021
Hotel London
How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black
Hosted by Mark Klobas
During the nineteenth century, the grand hotel emerged as a vital part of London life. Originally catering to elite visitors needing a place to stay in the short term, they …
Critical Theory
January 29, 2021
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
Middle Class Kingdoms
Sabrina Mittermeier
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How should we understand the theme park in our globalised world? In A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks: Middle Class Kingdoms (Intellect, 2020), Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier, a postdoctoral researcher and …
Mathematics
January 25, 2021
Games for Your Mind
The History and Future of Logic Puzzles
Jason Rosenhouse
Hosted by Jim Stein
Jason Rosenhouse's Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles (Princeton UP, 2020) is about a panoply of logic puzzles. You’ll find Mastermind and sudoku discussed early on, and …
Sociology
January 19, 2021
Other End of the Needle
Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers
David C. Lane
Hosted by Michael Johnston
In The Other End of the Needle (Rutgers University Press, 2020), David C. Lane, Ph.D. investigates the intricacies of the tattoo industry. Particularly, Lane found that tattooing is more complex …
Performing Arts
January 12, 2021
Sailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Gerry Smyth
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas (University of Washington Press, 2020) by performer and scholar Gerry Smyth includes lyrics and commentary for dozens of sea shanties, as well …
Film
January 11, 2021
Little Lindy Is Kidnapped
How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century
Thomas Doherty
Hosted by Joel Tscherne
In Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century (Columbia University Press, 2020), Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the …
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