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A leading critic traces three decades of contemporary dance from Balanchine to breakdancing

In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

Critical and performative writings from a well-known dance scholar

Award-winning choreographer shares insights and methods for making real art in the real world

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983-2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of dance in the country's war.

Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds.

Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, Facing the Past uncovers a hidden past.

The first comprehensive illustrated history of Connecticut architecture

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

A darkly humorous look at etiquette

New vocabulary for a world on the brink

An examination of popular Ethiopian music styles in Tel Aviv

Brilliant lectures by the most influential experimental music composers of our time

An intimate portrait of one of the great performing artists of the twentieth century

The first collection of classic and contemporary German-language science fiction in English

Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares.

An annual anthology of the best new experimental writing

An oral history of rock'n'roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama

An annual anthology of the best new experimental writing

A vibrant new translation of a modernist poet

Two Native American brothers serve as soldiers in World War I

Cesaire's masterpiece that reaches the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.

The bird poems of a revered American poet paired with classic bird illustrations

How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.

A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment.

Critics and writers consider nonfiction film both as document and as creative work with strong artistic, political, and moral implications.

Barfield draws on sources from mythology, philosophy, history, literature, theology, and science to chronicle the evolution of human thought from Moses and Aristotle to Galileo and Keats.

The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available-includes online teacher's guide

Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history

A comprehensive and multifaceted anthology of dance history -- ideal for the classroom.