Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throug…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Suruchi Mazumdar, "Divided Media: Politics and Mediated Movements in India" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 287
Suruchi Mazumdar’s book addresses the complex relationship between India’s evolving, emerging media landscape, the political and economic interests o…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 1595
Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars explores the complex interplay between violence and propaganda during the continent's major civil conf…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 163
With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find opportunities to …
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Nadya Bair, "The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 68
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, ro…
11 months ago
Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-e…
11 months ago
Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Episode 50
The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. …
11 months ago
Kelefa Sanneh, "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" (Penguin, 2021)
Episode 129
Kelefa Sanneh was born in England, and lived in Ghana and Scotland before moving with his parents to the United States in the early 1980s. He was a p…
11 months, 1 week ago
Richard Scheib, "A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic: Depictions of Plague and Pandemic on Film and TV" (Headpress, 2025)
Episode 217
Richard Scheib's A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic (Headpress, 2025) is a film book like no other. It opens with the author's first-hand account of the…
11 months, 1 week ago