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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

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

An alternative history of popular music that centers the electric bass

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

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

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 and Data

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

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

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

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

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

By David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Music, Popular Music
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

Living Labor

Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work

By Joseph B. Entin
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor

In the Lurch

Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation

By Ryan Claycomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

A spirited examination of the changing cultural climate for a once-lauded theatrical form

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance

By Lauron J. Kehrer
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Positions queer and trans hip hop artists within a longer tradition of Black queer music

Empire and Environment

Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific

Edited by Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Xiaojing Zhou
Subjects: American Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia

Explores environmental violence and recovery in Indigenous Pacific Islander, Asian North American, and Asian diasporic cultural expressions

Staged Readings

Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75

By Michael D'Alessandro
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

Contingent Encounters

Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life

By Dan DiPiero
Subjects: Music, Musicology, American Studies

Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life

Marginal People in Deviant Places

Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism

By Janice M. Irvine
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Gender Studies

How twentieth-century ethnographers captured the diverse social worlds of outsiders

Made-Up Asians

Yellowface During the Exclusion Era

By Esther Kim Lee
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Why and how Asian characters have been represented by non-Asian actors on stage and screen

Winged Words

The Life and Work of Poet H.D.

By Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies

A fresh look at the life and work of modernist poet H.D.

Winged Words

The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.

By Donna Krolik Hollenberg
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Gender Studies

A fresh look at the life and work of modernist poet H.D.

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