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Lost Women of Disco
Episode 1417
Women have been central to the evolution of dance music culture since its earliest days, yet their contributions have often been overlooked. From Rég…
1 year, 3 months ago
Katie Mitchell, "Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores" (Random House, 2025)
Episode 1416
Traversing teeming metropolises and tiny towns, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (Random House, 2025) explores these spaces, c…
1 year, 3 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…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jubilee (1978)
Episode 9
In the ninth episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell traces the trans-Atlantic movement of artists associated with punk culture in New York and…
1 year, 3 months ago
Triauna Carey, "The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Episode 288
The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music As a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance (Lexington Books, 2024) investigates the rhetorical strategies present in …
1 year, 3 months ago
Megan Volpert, "Why Alanis Morissette Matters" (University of Texas Press, 2025)
Episode 1410
The first critical biography of iconic musician Alanis Morissette, creator of Jagged Little Pill.
The 1990s hardly saw a bigger hit than Jagged Littl…
1 year, 3 months ago
James O'Connor, "Untitled Goose Game" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
Episode 46
It's a beautiful day in the village, and you are a horrible goose, ready to wreak charming havoc on the weary locals. You'll ruin their gardens, inva…
1 year, 3 months ago
Veronica Litt, "Ugh! As If!: Clueless" (ECW Press, 2025)
Episode 1408
Veronica Litt's Ugh As If!: Clueless (ECW Press, 2025) uncovers the complex layers beneath the glossy surface of the 1995 classic film "Clueless." Li…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 1409
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created …
1 year, 3 months ago