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With I AM JUGOSLOVENKA!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester University Press)...
01/07/2022

With I AM JUGOSLOVENKA!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester University Press), Jasmina Tumbas examines forms of feminist political and artistic engagement in Yugoslavia and its successor nations. By bringing together a wide range of materials—from performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, le***an activism, and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars—this study reveals that performative representations of women’s emancipation were crucial for the rise of gender equality in the socialist project. Covering celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, I AM JUGOSLOVENKA! offers a unique insight into the struggles and ambitions of Yugoslav women through the intersection of feminism, socialism, and nationalism in visual culture.

Jasmina Tumbas joins us on the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/i-am-jugoslovenka

SINGING LIKE GERMANS: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman (Cornell University Pre...
21/06/2022

SINGING LIKE GERMANS: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman (Cornell University Press) sits at the intersection of German Studies, History, and Musicology. Beginning in the 1870s with concerts given by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Singing Like Germans covers a century of Black musicians performing classical music in Germany and Austria. This sprawling book takes on how and why Black musicians came to Central Europe to perform classical music from their homes in North America, Africa, or the Caribbean, and what their reception reveals about German ideas of race, nationhood, and musical culture. She traces how the political tumult of one hundred years of war, Na**sm, and the division between East and West Germany contributed to the changing circumstances of Black musicians in the area, but also how ideas of race remained remarkably consistent in all that time. Performers such as Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, and Grace Bumbry, among many others, found opportunities in Central Europe denied them in other places, but audiences and critics understood their musicianship through racialized stereotypes and local political and cultural conditions. Given the book's wide breadth—chronologically and as a work of scholarship—this conversation is in the form a roundtable rather than a traditional interview. Three hosts from the New Books Network have come together to interview Thurman. Listen in ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/singing-like-germans-1

Interest in music sociability during the 18th century, including domestic and semi-domestic music-making, has been stead...
04/04/2022

Interest in music sociability during the 18th century, including domestic and semi-domestic music-making, has been steadily growing. Musical salons were crucial in providing a space where women could perform in public, which was otherwise impossible, for the most part. Rebecca Cypess' new book focuses on the figure of the salonnière, the female host at the center of most musical salons in Europe and America. Through case studies including the salons of Anne-Louise Brillon in Paris, Marianna Martines in Vienna, Sara Levy in Berlin, Elizabeth Graeme in Philadelphia, and the painter Angelika Kauffman in Rome, Cypess addresses several far-reaching issues in Enlightenment musical culture. Learn more about WOMEN and MUSICAL SALONS in the ENLIGHTENMENT (University of Chicago Press) as Cypess joins us on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/women-and-musical-salons-in-the-enlightenment

Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare's local producti...
23/02/2022

Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare's local productions and scholarship. SHAKESPEARE & EAST ASIA (Oxford University Press) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. The book builds on Alexa Alice Joubin’s already extensive publication record regarding the circulation of Shakespeare’s plays in East Asia. PODCAST LINK ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/shakespeare-and-east-asia

Why is the pageant industry growing in popularity across the Global South?BEAUTY DIPLOMACY: Embodying an Emerging Nation...
04/12/2020

Why is the pageant industry growing in popularity across the Global South?

BEAUTY DIPLOMACY: Embodying an Emerging Nation (Stanford University Press ) takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are promote ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on 4 case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria's changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun discusses her work on the podcast ⬇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/beauty-diplomacy

Harmony Bench's PERPETUAL MOTION: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common (University of Minnesota Press) traces the cha...
02/12/2020

Harmony Bench's PERPETUAL MOTION: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common (University of Minnesota Press) traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today. Listen in as Bench discusses how flash mobs reclaimed public space in the aftermath of 9/11, how "hyperdance" promised that every viewer would also be a co-choreographer, and how viral dance crazes unite people across borders in ways that are potentially liberatory but also can erase the specificities of specific dance cultures. 🎧⬇️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/perpetual-motion

Victoria Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer. Her book, MAR...
24/11/2020

Victoria Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer. Her book, MARTHA GRAHAM'S COLD WAR: The Dance of American Diplomacy (Oxford University Press) offers a look at the years that her company toured the world as an example of American democracy and freedom. Listen in as Phillips discusses her book that frames the story of Martha Graham and her brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/martha-grahams-cold-war

It's often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associat...
20/11/2020

It's often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head. CAN MUSIC MAKE YOU SICK? Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition (University of Westminster Press) proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors make their case on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/can-music-make-you-sick-measuring-the-price-of-musical-ambition

What is neorealism in the Italian context?In ITALIAN NEOREALISM: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press), Charl...
16/11/2020

What is neorealism in the Italian context?

In ITALIAN NEOREALISM: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weave together diverse cultural strands (literature, the visual arts, drama, journalism, poetry, essays) into a tapestry of historical practice. Give his conversation with Ellen Nerenberg a listen 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/italian-neorealism

Drawing on interviews with artists, dealers, and curators, LATINX ART: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke University P...
13/11/2020

Drawing on interviews with artists, dealers, and curators, LATINX ART: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke University Press) is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. Author Arlene Dávila sits down with David-James Gonzales to discuss this new book that emphasizes importance of race, class, and nationalism in shaping contemporary art markets while providing a path for scrutinizing art and culture institutions and for diversifying the art world.👂👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/latinx-art

THERE MUST BE HAPPY ENDINGS: On a Theater of Optimism & Honesty (3rd Thing Press) makes a powerful case for “militant op...
10/11/2020

THERE MUST BE HAPPY ENDINGS: On a Theater of Optimism & Honesty (3rd Thing Press) makes a powerful case for “militant optimism” in an age of chaos. Megan Sandberg-Zakian weaves this analysis of theatrical craft with a deeply personal coming of age story, touching on the history of genocide on both sides of her family, her identity as a q***r woman, and the process of finding an artistic voice of her own after growing up in the rehearsal rooms of her director/playwright father. Give her conversation with Andy Boyd a listen 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/megan-sandberg-zakian-there-must-be-happy-endings-on-a-theater-of-optimism-and-honesty-3rd-thing-press-2020

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-...
29/10/2020

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque (University Press of Colorado) offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—the volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power. Editor Jack Santino fills us in ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/jack-santino-public-performances-studies-in-the-carnivalesque-and-ritualesque-up-colorado-2017

Equally valuable to theatre scholars and to fans of the Broadway musical who want to engage more critically with this ri...
28/10/2020

Equally valuable to theatre scholars and to fans of the Broadway musical who want to engage more critically with this rich and multi-faceted art form, Warren Hoffman’s THE GREAT WHITE WAY: Race and the Broadway Musical (Rutgers University Press) explores the ways that race and racism have shaped the American musical from "Show Boat" to "Hamilton." Give Hoffman's conversation with NBN host Andy Boyd a listen ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/warren-hoffman-the-great-white-way-race-and-the-broadway-musical-2nd-edition-rutgers-up-2020

Adaptation doesn't just constitute the afterlife of the adapted work; it forms part of the dynamic process that brings t...
26/10/2020

Adaptation doesn't just constitute the afterlife of the adapted work; it forms part of the dynamic process that brings the work to life.

TRANSMEDIA ADAPTATION in the NINETEENTH CENTURY (The Ohio State University Press) explores a range of works by authors such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, John Keats and many more. Filled with engaging case studies, this book charts the evolution of literary narratives across novels, illustrations, stage plays, chapbooks, commercial merchandise and more. Lisette Lopez Szwydky fills us in👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/lissette-lopez-szwydky-transmedia-adaptation-in-the-nineteenth-century-ohio-state-up-2020/

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and wri...
26/10/2020

Born around 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, music pedagogue, entrepreneur, music critic, and writer. In AUGUSTA BROWNE: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Rochester Press/Boydell Music), author Bonny Miller contextualizes the life and career of this remarkable woman who built a public career that at times seems at odds with her conservative Christian belief system. She discusses the new biography with Kristen Myers Turner ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/bonny-h-miller-augusta-browne-composer-and-woman-of-letters-in-nineteenth-century-america-u-rochester-press-2020/

In a wonderful mix of narrative storytelling and reportage, RADICAL RITUAL: How Burning Man Changed the World (Counterpo...
26/10/2020

In a wonderful mix of narrative storytelling and reportage, RADICAL RITUAL: How Burning Man Changed the World (Counterpoint) explains how Burning Man has impacted the art world, disaster relief, urban renewal, the utilization of renewable energy, and even the corporate governance of Google. Journalist, student of American culture, and 6-time Burning Man participant Neil Shister fills us in on the book 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/neil-shister-radical-ritual-how-burning-man-changed-the-world-counterpoint-2019/

Lisa B. Thompson's latest book, UNDERGROUND, MONROE, and THE MAMALOGUES (Northwestern University Press) collects plays f...
23/10/2020

Lisa B. Thompson's latest book, UNDERGROUND, MONROE, and THE MAMALOGUES (Northwestern University Press) collects plays from the past two decades. “Underground” is a tense two-hander exploring themes of race, class, and masculinity. "Monroe" draws on Thompson’s family’s history as part of the Great Migration of Blacks from the South to the urban north and west. “The Mamalogues” is the funniest and most personal play in this collection: it is a love letter to unpartnered Black mothers and a spiritual sequel to Thompson’s earlier play “Single Black Female.” Thompson joins Andy Boyd 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/lisa-b-thompson-underground-monroe-and-the-mamalogues-three-plays-northwestern-up-2020/

With AGAINST DEMAGOGUES: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy (Universi...
21/10/2020

With AGAINST DEMAGOGUES: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy (University of California Press), Robert Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. Learn more as Bartlett discusses the book with your host Andy Boyd on the podcast👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/robert-bartlett-against-demagogues-what-aristophanes-can-teach-us-about-the-perils-of-populism-and-the-fate-of-democracy-u-california-press-2020/

EXPORTING JIM CROW: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Massachusetts Press) is a rich, well-...
20/10/2020

EXPORTING JIM CROW: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Massachusetts Press) 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 in the 1800s, Chinua Thelwell explores the ways that blackface minstrelsy helped to construct and maintain notions of exclusionary citizenship in racial states throughout the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Ocean worlds. Give the author's discussion with Amanda Joyce Hall a listen ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/chinua-thelwell-exporting-jim-crow-blackface-minstrelsy-in-south-africa-and-beyond-u-massachusetts-press-2020/

🎥Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese. On th...
20/10/2020

🎥Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese. On this episode of the podcast Eric San Juan joins your host Joel Tscherne to give us the rundown on THE FILMS of MARTIN SCORSESE: Gangsters, Greed, and Guilt (Rowman and Littlefield), which guides us through the crooks, mobsters, loners, moguls, and nobodies of Scorsese’s 26-movie filmography. 🎧↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/eric-san-juan-the-films-of-martin-scorsese-gangsters-greed-and-guilt-rowman-and-littlefield-2020/

Sianne Ngai's latest book continues her theoretical work of demystifying the vernacular aesthetic categories encountered...
20/10/2020

Sianne Ngai's latest book continues her theoretical work of demystifying the vernacular aesthetic categories encountered in late capitalist daily life. Drawing upon formalist literary criticism, post-Kantian aesthetic philosophy, and Marxist political economy THEORY of the GIMMICK: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard University Press) illuminates the historical production of an attractive yet unsettling cultural form. Check out the author's interview with NBN host Michael Eby 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/sianne-ngai-theory-of-the-gimmick-aesthetic-judgment-and-capitalist-form-harvard-up-2020/

It's hard to overstate the importance of culture. It teaches us, heals us, rips us apart and puts us back together in ne...
20/10/2020

It's 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. Yet, there is no product without a producer, and cultural products are no different, so understanding cultural products means thinking more critically about who produces them.

Written by Orian Brook, Mark Taylor and, our guest today, Dave O’Brien, CULTURE IS BAD FOR YOU: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries (Manchester University Press) combines quantitative data analysis with personal interviews to weave together the complicated picture of who the people behind some of our most cherished experiences are. Listen in 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/dave-obrien-culture-is-bad-for-you-inequality-in-the-cultural-and-creative-industries-manchester-up-2020/

On this episode Ahalya Satkunaratnam joins us to discuss MOVING BODIES, NAVIGATING CONFLICT: Practicing Bharatanatyam in...
15/10/2020

On this episode Ahalya Satkunaratnam joins us to discuss MOVING BODIES, NAVIGATING CONFLICT: Practicing Bharatanatyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Wesleyan University Press), a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of this dance in the country’s war. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ahalya-satkunaratnam-moving-bodies-navigating-conflict-practicing-bharatanatyam-in-colombo-sri-lanka-wesleyan-up-2020/

Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre. Through her involvement with Teatro Libertad, Teatro Chicano, and El Teatr...
22/09/2020

Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre. Through her involvement with Teatro Libertad, Teatro Chicano, and El Teatro Nacional de Atzlán she has created plays where working class Chicanos are center stage. Despite her insistence that she is “a storyteller, not an activist,” her plays reflect her deep connection to the Movimiento Chicano. They are also funny, imaginative, and heartbreaking, sometimes all in the same scene. Her book BARRIO DREAMS (The University of Arizona Press) collects five of her plays. Wood is our guest on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/silviana-wood-barrio-dreams-selected-plays-u-arizona-press-2016/

In CULTURAL RESPONSES to OCCUPATION in JAPAN: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War (Bloomsbury Academic), A...
29/08/2020

In CULTURAL RESPONSES to OCCUPATION in JAPAN: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War (Bloomsbury Academic), Adam Broinowski analyzes the emergence of Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) in the context of America’s de jure and then de facto occupation of Japan following the Second World War. Learn more as Broinowski joins the NBN's Andy Boyd on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/adam-broinowski-cultural-responses-to-occupation-in-japan-the-performing-body-during-and-after-the-cold-war-bloomsbury-2016/

ISHTYLE: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press) follows q***r South Asian men across borders into...
24/08/2020

ISHTYLE: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press) follows q***r South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing the cultural practices they are most familiar with into these spaces, these men accent the aesthetics of nightlife cultures through performance. Author Kareem Khubchandani joins us on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/kareem-khubchandani-ishtyle-accenting-gay-indian-nightlife-michigan-up-2020/

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