“This is an immensely useable book, smartly concise. It offers a bird’s eye view that also reveals the divergences, gray areas, and overlaps so critical to understanding the history of rock. ” —Benjamin Harbert, associate professor of music, Georgetown University Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry’s innovative and road-tested textbook is an introduction to Rock and R&B suitable…
“It is beautiful and amazing to have access to the vast range of invention, intensity, and surprise that Lorenzo Thomas’s poetry offers. His contribution is indispensable, immeasurable and—even now, even here—unbound. ” —Fred Moten, author of The Little Edges “This generous tome of too-hidden genius griot-bodhisattva Lorenzo Thomas shimmers with an alert curiosity and humanity’s…
“Beautifully written, this vital and sensitive ethnography documents the social, affective, and discursive energies that flow within contemporary Ukrainian music. Sonevytsky highlights the possibilities for imaginative agency that “wild musics” provide, without ignoring the very real constraints that hem in the Ukrainian subjects whose complex personhood is the real focus of this remarkable book.” —J.…
“From a forgotten box of letters Eve Kahn meticulously stitches together the life, travels, work, opinions, humor and travails of Mary Rogers Williams. Kahn’s zealous detective work begs the question, how many other women, erased to history, await discovery?” — Marcia Ely, Executive Vice President, Brooklyn Historical Society “Eve Kahn evocatively reconstructs Impressionist painter Mary…
“Yonatan Berg’s poetry is fervent and relentless in its language, each poem moving forward in a series of proclamations that are as absolute as they are heartbreaking, ‘We told ourselves it would pass./We put everything in place, near/the couches, the armchairs. On the balcony, flowers/spiraled towards the sun.’ In the midst of this book’s almost unbearable traumas,…
“Choreography—especially experimental choreography—is nearly impossible to describe before it happens or to capture once it’s over. In this book, through drawings and charts and personalized text, Annie-B Parson somehow manages to do both. ” —David Lang, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion Soloing on the page, choreographer Annie-B Parson…
“A striking achievement, Celluloid Classicism deepens and broadens conventional histories of South Indian performance. Meticulously researched and conceptually rich, Krishnan’s work illustrates the aesthetic debt modern bharata natyam owes to South Indian cinema while also demonstrating cinema’s reliance on local dance and theatre traditions.” —Janet O’Shea, author of At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global…
“The tambura bands that play dangerously across the pages of Ian MacMillen’s compelling book rechart the discursive landscapes of race and nationalism today, opening spaces for witnessing music’s intimate affect in critical new ways. ” —Philip V. Bohlman, author of Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe Tambura is a genre-crossing performance practice…
Beginning this fall, David Byrne is bringing his latest tour, American Utopia, to Broadway in a limited engagement, from October 4th to January 19th. Annie-B Parson did the staging and choreography for the show and Alex Timbers, who also collaborated with Byrne and Parson on Here Lies Love, is the production consultant. Annie-B Parson, author…
Joanna Chen, the translator of Yonathan Berg’s Frayed Light, recently penned an essay detailing her experiences working on the book and what brought her to the project in the first place. Listening to the Voice: Translation of Frayed Light An essay by the translator Joanna Chen Frayed Light began four years ago, when poet Rachel…
