New Books in Performing Arts

Marshall Poe

Francis O'neill

Margherita Costa

Allegorical Drama

Irish Music

Drag

Shakespeare

Baroque Italy

Chicago

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Ska

Venice

Eugenio Refini

Italian Studies

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Female-Driven Films

Decolonization

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Race and Gender In the Western Music History Survey

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Christa Bentley

Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Arkansas, focusing on singer-songwriters and popular music.

University of Arkansas

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Cary Baker

A music industry professional with over forty years of experience, author of 'Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music'.

Jawbone Press

Episode: Cary Baker, "Down On The Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music" (Jawbone Press, 2025)

Leon J. Hilton

Author of Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance, and teacher in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University

Brown University

Episode: Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Diana Souhami

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Head of Zeus Books

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Dr. Kathleen Wilson

Cultural historian of 18th century Britain and its empire.

Cambridge University Press

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Nan Z. Da

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Johns Hopkins University

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Christopher M. Reali

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Ramapo College of New Jersey

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Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Q: How do you feel that the movement has an impact on today's Palestinian theater?

The influence is absolutely huge, as the infrastructure built during the theater movement in the 70s and 80s laid the groundwork for the powerful theater movement we see today.

Samer Al-Saber, "A Movement's Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater" (Stanford UP, 2025)

Q: Can you remember when you knew that you wanted to write A Movement's Promise?

The research in this book began as my dissertation project, initially called Permission to Perform, focusing on the relationship between theater artists and Israeli authorities.

Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)

Q: What does it mean to enjoy the work of immoral artists?

It could mean engagement, contemplation, or participation in communal experiences around the artwork.

Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)

Q: Do you really think it's OK to enjoy the work of immoral artists?

Most of the time, in most contexts, yes.

Christa Anne Bentley et al, eds., "Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans" (Routledge, 2025)

Q: Can you talk a little bit about what your authors and you see as the effect of misogyny and the fact that she is a woman on her career?

Misogyny influenced the critical focus on her work, making it difficult for her to receive the same level of scholarly attention as contemporaries like Beyoncé.

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