New Books in World Music

Holly Hurlburt, “Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance” (Yale UP, 2015)

Caterina Corner lived a life that was composed of a mixture of adventure, power, and tragedy. The...

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Ruth Beckford and Careth Reid, “The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E. F. Joseph” (Arca...

From 1927 until his death in 1979, E.F. Joseph documented the daily lives of African Americans in...

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Mia Mask, “Divas on the Screen: Black Women in American Film” (U. of Illinois Press, 2009)

Five charismatic women navigate uneven terrain of racial gender and class stereotypes: Dorothy...

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Carrie J. Preston, “Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Carrie J. Preston‘s new book tells the story of the global circulation of noh-inspired...

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Colleen Derkatch, “Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine” (U of ...

What makes for new science? What happens to the evidentiary basis of the medical profession when...

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Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McF...

Who’s the black private dick That’s a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft) Ya damn right   Who...

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Raz Chen-Morris,” Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility” (Penn State UP, 2016)

Raz Chen-Morris‘s new book traces a significant and surprising notion through the work of...

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Brandon D. Crowe, “The Last Adam: A Theology of the Obedient Life of Jesus in the Gospels” (Baker Academic, 2017).

One scholar famously referred to the Gospels of the New Testament as passion narratives with long...

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Susan E. Cayleff, “Nature’s Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)

Susan Cayleff’s Nature’s Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America (Johns Hopkins...

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Anuradha Chakravarty, “Investing in Authoritarian Rule: Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts for Ge...

In my time doing this podcast, I’ve written a number of books about transitional justice. All...

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Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers, “Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible” (Fordh...

One of the most interesting, but largely overlooked silent films, is Haxan, written and directed...

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Marie Hicks, “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” (M...

How did gender relations change in the computing industry? And how did the UK go from leading the...

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Serhat Unaldi, “Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016)

In Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok (University of Hawaii...

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Edward J. Balleisen, “Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff” (Princeton UP, 2017)

This week’s podcast is a fraud or at least about a fraud. Edward J. Balleisen has written Fraud:...

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Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)

Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press, 2017) opens new vistas...

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Andrew Causey, “Drawn to See: Drawing as Ethnographic Method” (U. Toronto Press, 2016)

In his new book Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method (University of Toronto Press,...

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Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco, “The Age of Perversion: Desire and Technology in Psychoanalysis and Culture” (...

The wish to transcend ones mortality, and the anxiety associated with being unable to do so, are...

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Melissa Chakars, “The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia” (Central European UP, 2014)

In The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia (Central European University...

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Karl Baden, “The Americans by Car” (Retroactive Press, 2016)

The Americans by Car is Karl Badens latest book. An homage to Robert Frank’s The Americans and...

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Quincy T. Mills, “Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America” (UPenn Press, 2013)

Business. Community. Politics. That’s the making of a barbershop. In Cutting Along the Color...

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