Performing Arts
BOLLYWOOD SUPERSTARS: A SHORT STORY OF INDIAN CINEMA
An innovative visual history of Indian cinema's history, actors, directors, influences and graphic style
DEREK JARMAN
Writings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher Turner
THIRD LIFE OF AGNÈS VARDA
On the iconic filmmaker's final phase as an acclaimed creator of genre-bending installations
SIGNALS: HOW VIDEO TRANSFORMED THE WORLD
Video within and beyond art: a survey of the medium's political meanings
ANNA MAY WONG: FROM LAUNDRYMAN'S DAUGHTER TO HOLLYWOOD LEGEND
Written by Hodges, Graham Russell Gao
Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood's best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland.
STRANGE CELESTIAL ROAD: MY TIME IN THE SUN RA ARKESTRA
Written by Abdullah, Ahmed
A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s
RISE AND FALL OF PARAMOUNT RECORDS: A GREAT MIGRATION STORY, 1917-1932
Written by Blackwood, Scott
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme of producing records only to drive sales of the expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing.
WILLIAMSBURG AVANT-GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND SOUND ON THE BROOKLYN WATERFRONT
Written by Bradley, Cisco
In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Drawing on interviews, archival collections, musical recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley explores the scene's social, cultural, and economic dynamics.
DANCING DOWN THE BARRICADES: SAMMY DAVIS JR. AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA (FIRST EDITION, A CULTURAL HISTORY)
Written by Jacobson, Matthew Frye
A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV--Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture.
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