New Books in Performing Arts

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Theater Of Racial Justice

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Jacob Gordin

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Publishes	Twice weekly	Episodes	1194	Founded	13 years ago
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Musical Pripetshik: Lyrics and Melodies of Traditional Yiddish Folksongs

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Beth Weinstein, "Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time" (Routledge, 2024)

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Caro Pirri

Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

Episode: Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Christopher Campo-Bowen

Author of Visions of the Village, Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera

Oxford University Press

Episode: Christopher Campo-Bowen, "Visions of the Village: Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Michelle Bigenho

Author; Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Colgate University

Episode: Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Henry Stobart

Author; Researcher in ethnomusicology and heritage studies

Royal Holloway, University of London

Episode: Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Ashton Lazarus

Dr. Ashton Lazarus from the University of Utah, author of Performing Transgression, Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

University of Utah

Episode: Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Anja Foerschner

Art historian and curator; author of Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia between 1971 and 2001

ECC Performance Art / Home of Performance Practices, Netherlands

Episode: Anja Foerschner, "Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Josh Kun

Cultural historian, curator, and MacArthur Fellow

University of Southern California

Episode: Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

Ronald Robboy

Musician and independent scholar on Yiddish theater music

San Diego; Ivo Institute project

Episode: Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

Sonia Gollance

Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies

University College London

Episode: Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

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Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Q: What drew you to pattern-recognition as a method, and how did that shape your chapter construction?

I approached chapters as pattern-recognition exercises, reading widely to identify recurring patterns across genres like Hakluyt's navigations, Jonson's city comedies, and Shakespeare, then letting those patterns dictate the selection of case studies and the narrative arc of the book.

Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Q: I guess I want to ask you a little bit more about what it was like to read all of that text. How long did that take you and what were your major takeaways?

It was over 800 pages in the first edition, and the process revealed the maximum inclusion framework Hakluyt uses, showing how even “damning” representations can be folded into an argument for English presence, while also exposing tensions between inclusion, exclusion, and imperial storytelling.

Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)

Q: How do you define 'narrative redemption' beyond religious context?

Narrative redemption is about the portrayal of failure in a way that reveals social costs, avoids smooth telescoping to a future victory, and instead foregrounds how failures can be generative in the present without guaranteeing long-term political outcomes.

Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)

Q: What interventions are you making with this book?

The interventions shake loose the traditional, whitened narrative of musical variety, expanding the field to include four groups often overlooked, examining how space, language, and economic dynamics (like black and non-black management) affected performances, and showing how these circuits reflected and influenced broader social and cultural life in the early 20th century.

Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)

Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

I'm Shane Breaux, a PhD in Theatre and Performance; the book grew from my experiences in Louisiana and my graduate studies, and it aims to broaden the history of musical variety beyond whiteness by including Black, Asian, Mexican American, and white rural performers and managers, arguing for an integrated history that accounts for lived realities and the contributions of under-studied comedians.

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A scholarly interview channel that pairs researchers with peers to discuss recently published work in performance, theatre, music, and related humanities. Across episodes, guests explore topics like national identity in opera, coloniality and dramaturgy, heritage law, Heian Japan performance, Yugoslav art, Yiddish and Latino-Jewish musical exchange, and mid‑century American musical theater, often tying historical inquiry to contemporary contexts. Listeners typically engage with rigorous, cross-disciplinary discussions that blend archival methods, pedagogy, public understanding of culture, and ethical considerations in scholarship. The show is notable for its breadth of international humanities topics, its emphasis on methodological insight,... more

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