The recent killing of an unarmed Black man has sparked a world-wide social justice movement and has given rise to the Black Lives Matter Movement.As government officials devise plans to overthrow the uprisings, cities all over the country continue to burn in America.National Guards and Federal troops are deployed and given direct orders in assisting the police with crushing all lawlessness. Millions of people continue to pour into the streets demanding justice.White...

As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; ninetee...

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course. Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Dark Victory starring Spencer Tracy & Bette Davies.

Once upon a time, children's music was just Mother Goose, nursery songs, and lullabies. And then came Ella Jenkins.Ella Jenkins is an American folk singer and living legend dubbed The First Lady of Children's Music. For nearly 70 years, she has been writing and performing music that has entertained and engaged generations of young listeners. In Make a Pretty Song, Ella's life and legacy are captured in vibrant sights, sounds, and stories that leap right of...

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the latest research in discourse and content analyses trending in both domestic and international circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media rega...

Tools and strategies to foster transformative change for social justiceMany believe that social justice education is simply the new politically correct term for diversity-focused intervention or multiculturalism. The true definition, however, is more complex, nuanced, and important to understand. Higher education today needs clarity on both the concept of social justice and effective tools to successfully translate theory into practice. In Advancing Social Just...

In a world where fate is a delicate tapestry woven by unseen hands, Lin Wei was a master strategist—ruthless, calculated, and always ten steps ahead. But when a fatal car crash rips her from her high-powered corporate life, she awakens to an entirely different reality—one where she is no longer Lin Wei, but Su Yuyan, a low-ranking concubine in the imperial palace of a treacherous world she once dismissed as fiction. Trapped within the Crimson Chronicles, a world of imperial intrigue, shado...

In a city where shadows whisper and the stars remember, one woman holds the power to unravel destiny.” Lunara never asked for power. Living in the neon-drenched depths of Auroria, she’s spent her life blending into the shadows—until they start following her. When an ancient force awakens within her, Lunara is thrust into a conflict as old as the stars, caught between factions vying for control of the elusive Celestial Shadows. With a staff forged from celestial energy and a gift she barely...

In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be rehearsing nuclear war, she provides a comparative study of the civil defense maneuv...

This ambitious study traces the strategies of human rights activists to show how world-changing reform movements were shaped by women and men from modest backgrounds who were deeply attuned to the power of performance. Tracy C. Davis explores nineteenth-century reform campaigns through the pioneering work of a family of activists – prominent anti-slavery lecturer George Thompson, his daughter Amelia (the first female theatre and music critic for a British daily newspaper) and her husband, ...

Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns - embodiment, ethical research and social change - are held in common with many other fields, however a unique combination of methods and applications is used in exploration of the discipline. Bridging live art practices - theatre, performance art and dance - with technological media, and social sciences with humanities, it is truly hybrid and experimental in its techniques. T...

We often know performance when we see it – but how should we investigate it? And how should we interpret what we find out? This book demonstrates why and how mixed methods research is necessary for investigating and explaining performance and advancing new critical agendas in cultural study. The wide range of aesthetic forms, cultural meanings, and social functions found in theatre and performance globally invites a corresponding variety of research approaches. The essays in this volume mo...