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An Actor's Tale

Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States

By Amy Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

The nineteenth-century US entertainment industry through the perspective of an ordinary actor

Teamsters Metropolis

By Ryan Patrick Murphy
Subjects: History, Labor History, American History, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

How an unruly union culture helped workers establish comfortable, suburban living

Enveloping Worlds

Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance

Edited by E.B. Hunter & Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

A collection analyzing immersive, participatory performances as it has developed in the U.S.

Shipping Out

Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Notes on Vermin

By Caroline Hovanec
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

How and why modern literature came to love its pests

Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Owning My Masters (Mastered)

The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions

By A.D. Carson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Music, Musicology
Series: Tracking Pop

Using hip hop to create new theory

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

The Bastard Instrument

A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

By Brian F. Wright
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Music Theory, Music Composition, Jazz
Series: Tracking Pop

Centering the electric bass in popular music history

Disorienting Politics

Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

By Fan Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, American Studies

Understanding Chimerican entanglements through 21st-century media

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

By Jon D. Rossini
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Diaspora Studies, American Studies

Explores drama’s powerful capacity to model nuanced political action

Incarceration Games

A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance

By Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Psychology, American Studies

Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Stephanie Dinkins

On Love & Data

By Srimoyee Mitra
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, American Studies, Class Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture

Art’s power to challenge inequities and build inclusive dialogues

Tracks on the Trail

Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency

By Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, American Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Tracking Pop

How music defines US presidential campaigns
 

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance

By Monique Mojica & Brenda Farnell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Native American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

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