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Pain in Relation

On Causality, Chronicity, and (Crip) Evidence

By Alyson Patsavas
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Exposes the dominant narratives of pain

Black Song

A Manifesto for Music and Justice

By Singing Justice Collective, Louise Toppin, Naomi Andre, Stephen A. Berrey, Tyrese Byrd, Mark Allan Clague, Caroline Helton, Traci L. Lombré, Samantha Williams, Cody Jones, Christie Finn, and Thomas Hampson
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Connecting music and history to engage more deeply and respectfully with Black musical traditions

Feeling Yellow

Asian Americans and Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre

By Donatella Galella
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A contemporary history of the usage of yellowface in musical theatre

Gender Is a Weapon

Liberalism, Difference, and US Counterinsurgency

By Elizabeth Mesok
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Critical Militarization Studies
Series: Critical Militarization Studies

A sobering account of the strategic leveraging of women for counterinsurgency and impossible promises of inclusion

Lavender Sounds

From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork

By Stacey Copeland
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

An exploration of queer feminist soundwork, connecting historical lesbian radio with modern podcasting

Prison Song

Music and Incarceration in the United States

By David Metzer
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

How musicians across genres have confronted the prison system over the last hundred years

Robert Altman's Nashville

An Archival Exploration

By Justin Wyatt
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, American Studies, History, American History
Series: Out of the Archives

Unraveling what an American slice-of-life film can still tell us after 50 years

Planetarity from Below

Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora

By Emily Yu Zong
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Asian Studies, China, American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics

An Actor's Tale

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

By Amy E. Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

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

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

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, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, African Studies

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

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, Latinx 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

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