Topless Cellist: The Improbable Life of Charlotte Moorman
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The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed...
The Pathetick Musician: Moving an Audience in the Age of Eloquence
Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes
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What is rhetorical music? In The Pathetick Musician, Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess illustrate...
Glorious Exploits
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It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian...
Historical fiction Greece Syracuse
B Jenkins
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The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named...
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers: 2017
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This collection is the first to focus on the iconoclastic and transformative power of American...
Jonas Carpignano recommended Mamma Roma (1962) in Movies (curated)
Medea
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Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea...
Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago
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This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the...
Telling Tales
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This book was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize 2015. Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet...
Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why...