Like biological species and languages, many musical and other cultural practices around the world are at risk. In some cases, the threat to their future is due to social inequalities or injustices that impinge upon people's capacity to engage in vibrant cultural lives of their choosing, such as assimilation policies, systemic land dispossession, forced displacement, or erasure of certain cultures in education. In Sounding Good, author Catherine Grant joins artist-researcher collab...

In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by artists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of f...

Since the 1990s, women artists have led the contemporary art world in the creation of art depicting female adolescence, producing challenging, critically debated and avidly collected artworks that are driving the current and momentous shift in the perception of women in art. Girls! Girls! Girls! presents essays from established and up-and-coming scholars who address a variety of themes, including narcissism, nostalgia, post-feminism and fantasy with the goal of approaching the ove...

The sustainability of music and other intangible expressions of culture has been high on the agenda of scholars, governments and NGOs in recent years. However, there is a striking lack of systematic research into what exactly affects sustainability across music cultures. By analyzing case studies of nine highly diverse music cultures against a single framework that identifies key factors in music sustainability, Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures offers an understanding of bot...

KL Pereira is our featured writer. She brings TWO stories to read. We talk to her about the creative process, influences and her collection *A Dream Between Two Rivers*.Fiona Maeve Geist talks Women's Utopia Fiction as a precursor to modern speculative fiction.Fiction from:* Haleh Agar* Morgan Crooks* Noelle Henneman* Sarah Read

Gemma Files is our featured writer. We talk with her about 'monster pride' and what she's working on next. Fiona Maeve Geist returns with an article on Hope Mirrlees and Margaret St Clair.Fiction from:* Becca De La Rosa* Irene García Cabello* Pierce Skinner* DC Mallery

Twas the fright before ChristmasAnd all through the townNot a soul stirredNo one dared make a sound...Welcome to Deathlehem, where......Krampus, not Santa, brings the holiday cheer......the lights on the tree, so festive and bright, skitter and crawl and possess a lethal bite......malicious little elves, not a jolly fat one, know if you've been naughty--or nice...and...family gatherings and office parties often turn deadly.

Linda Nochlins seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no great women artists on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she dismantled the very concept of greatness, unravelling the basic assumptions that had centred a male-coded genius in the study of art. With unparalleled insight and startling wit, Nochlin laid bare the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in a...

Come see what's new with Alice Cooper. This book is your ultimate resource for Alice Cooper. Here you will find the most up-to-date 126 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Alice Cooper's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: The Alice Cooper Show - Personnel, The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper - Track listing, Poison (Alice Cooper...

In the quaint town of Haverhill, where secrets whisper through the cobblestone streets, a chilling mystery unfolds. A young woman, Ruth, vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions. As the community grapples with fear and uncertainty, a renowned detective, Mr. Smith, arrives to unravel the enigmatic disappearance. With his keen eye for detail and relentless pursuit of the truth, Smith delves into a labyrinth of hidden motives, cryptic clues, and long-buried sec...

When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out," they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one on the U.S. and U.K. charts with Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. As teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway and lead singer Vince Furnier, who would later change his name to Alice Cooper, formed a hard-knuckles band that playe...

After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone apps meant to spread hygiene practices in Africa fail to improve health. Executives in...