New Books in Performing Arts

Marshall Poe

Francis O'neill

Margherita Costa

Allegorical Drama

Irish Music

Drag

Shakespeare

Baroque Italy

Chicago

Baroque Period

Ska

Venice

Pedagogical Practices

Italian Studies

Eugenio Refini

Female-Driven Films

Hip Hop

Decolonization

Rupaul's Drag Race

Performative Arts

Translation Studies

Interviews with scholars of the performing arts about their new books Support our show by becoming a premium member! newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

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Ben Arogundade, "Hollywood Blackout: The Battle for Recognition in a White Hollywood" (Cassell, 2025)

On February 29, 1940, African American actor Hattie McDaniel became the first person of color, and the first Black woman, to win an Academy Award. The moment marked the beginning of Hollywood's reluctant move toward diversity and inclusion. Since the... more

25 Apr 2025 • 1 hr 12 min

Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)

In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute. The photo’s caption, referencing the couple’s trip to Rome the previous year, informs fans that th... more

21 Apr 2025 • 1 hr

Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)

Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU Press, 2025) breaks from our focus on white fandom to center Black fandoms. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., engages these fandom... more

19 Apr 2025 • 1 hr 16 min

Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)

How do corporations use theater to reconcile the crises of late capitalism? In our latest interview on Ethnographic Marginalia, we speak with Dr. Sarah Saddler about her new book Performing Corporate Bodies (Routledge, 2024), where she describes how ... more

15 Apr 2025 • 1 hr 10 min

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Sarah Saddler

Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College, CUNY

Baruch College, CUNY

Episode: Sarah Saddler, "Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India" (Routledge, 2025)

David Wiles

Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

Episode: David Wiles, "Democracy, Theatre and Performance: From the Greeks to Gandhi" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mark Doyle

Professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University and author of several books including works on The Kinks and violence in the British Empire.

Middle Tennessee State University

Episode: Mark Doyle, "John Cale's Paris 1919" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Henry Spiller

Professor of Music, Emeritus at the University of California Davis

University of California, Davis

Episode: Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)

Anna Maria Busse Berger

Distinguished Professor of Music, Emerita at the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

Episode: Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)

Miriam Haughton

Associate professor in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway

University of Galway

Episode: Miriam Haughton, "The Theatre of Louise Lowe" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Dr Liz Williams

A science fiction and fantasy writer, and an academic with a doctorate from Cambridge.

Reaktion

Episode: Liz William, "Rough Music: Folk Customs, Transgression and Alternative Britain" (Reaktion, 2025)

Paul R. Laird

University of Kansas scholar and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story

University of Kansas

Episode: Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Elizabeth A. Wells

Mount Allison University scholar and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story

Mount Allison University

Episode: Paul R. Laird and Elizabeth A. Wells, "The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher

One of the hosts of New Books Network.

Simon Taylor

Host of New Books Network.

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Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)

Q: What was your 'aha moment' regarding the connection between Mussolini and Valentino?

Bertellini reveals discovering a photo of Pickford and Fairbanks performing the fascist salute, which led him to further investigate the intersections of cinema and politics.

Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)

Q: How do you compare Valentino and Mussolini in your study?

Bertellini discusses how both figures, representing chauvinist masculinity, became successful in America but approached from different contexts - cinema for Valentino and politics for Mussolini.

Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: Can you tell us a bit about your methodology and process of kind of creating a separate way into this topic?

I utilized interviews as a method to understand Black fandom, emphasizing the joy and pain in fandom experiences, and acknowledging my own positionality as a Black person.

Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)

Q: Dr. Spiller, why Indonesia? What makes Indonesia such a compelling and important case study for a project such as this?

Indonesia was already a crossroads of different political powers and cultures even before Europeans arrived, making it a rich area for studies on musical and cultural interactions during and after colonization.

Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)

Q: Dr. Busse Berger, could you speak to some of the different methodological approaches that are incorporated across the chapters?

The archives are a gold mine, with various well-run collections containing letters, recordings, and documents that have yet to be thoroughly explored, offering invaluable insights into the interactions between missionaries and local music.

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