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Contains images of music making during the Depression, captured with precision and purpose.

Demonstrates research on diverse women from the sixteenth century onwards in Spain, Mexico, Tunisia, India, Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the United States. This book addresses gender, race, class, nationalism, trans-nationalism, and migration.

Reflections and predictions of technology's effect on reading and writing

A sampling of "the best of Ronell," focusing on her essays and talks. This work presents an introduction to Ronell's oeuvre. It includes at least one selection from each of her books, two classic selections from a collection of her early essays, interviews, and essays.

A new look at modernism's relationship to human feeling and the public sphere

Presents a feminist analysis of Indian issues that goes past rights to get to justice. This work explores the relationship between law and feminist politics, by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States.

Suddenly Robert Johnson is everywhere. Though the Mississippi bluesman died young and recorded only twenty-nine songs, the legacy, legend, and lore surrounding him continue to grow. This title gives his biography.

The first published collection of the esteemed novelist's prolific political works

Features the biography of Aaron Copland, his life, and his music.

Provides a fresh perspective on twentieth-century struggles for racial justice.

Focusing on interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this title illuminates a complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the well-being of the community and functioned as a counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.

A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words

This biography of Katherine Dunham thoroughly examines her pioneering contributions to dance anthropology and her commitment to humanizing society through the arts. This multifaceted portrait blends personal observations based on author's interactions with Dunham, archival documents, and interviews with Dunham's colleagues and students.

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts. A Guru's Journey provides an ethnographic study of the dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Das. Sarah Morelli, a kathak dancer and one of Das's former students, investigates issues in teaching, learning, and performance that developed around Das during his time in the United States. In modifying kathak's form and teaching for Western students, Das negotiates questions of Indianness and non-Indianness, gender, identity, and race. Morelli lays out these issues for readers with the goal of deepening their knowledge of kathak aesthetics, technique, and theory. She also shares the intricacies of footwork, facial expression in storytelling, and other aspects of kathak while tying them to the cultural issues that inform the dance.

Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with mainstream figures and genre frameworks, Martel works within art cinema, and since her 2001 debut The Swamp she has become one of international film's most acclaimed auteurs.Gerd Gemünden offers a career-spanning analysis of a filmmaker dedicated to revealing the ephemeral, fortuitous, and endless variety of human experience. Martel's focus on sound, touch, taste, and smell challenge film's usual emphasis on what a viewer sees. By merging of these and other experimental techniques with heightened realism, she invites audiences into film narratives at once unresolved, truncated, and elliptical. Gemünden aligns Martel's filmmaking methods with the work of other international directors who criticizeand pointedly circumventthe high-velocity speeds of today's cinematic storytelling. He also explores how Martel's radical political critique forces viewers to rethink entitlement, race, class, and exploitation of indigenous peoples within Argentinian society and beyond.