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.
Rethinks choreography as dance on paper. Parson draws her dances into new graphic structures calling attention to the visual facts of the materiality of each dance work she has made.
Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, Facing the Past uncovers a hidden past.
A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century
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
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
First book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword
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
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.
Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems.
The first full-length feminist analysis of Frida Kahlo and the myths surrounding her.
A new paperback edition of Kent's first book, often referred to as "Alaska's Walden."
The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available-includes online teacher's guide
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