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Ethnographically-grounded studies of technology in global music.

An essential collection of a highly original American poet

Rich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time.

Award-winning choreographer shares insights and methods for making real art in the real world

A cultural and social study of the origins and evolution of "rocknroll".

An essential guide to embodied awareness. Helps each reader understand their dancing body through somatic work.

A new collection of essays and poetry from the poet Library Journal called "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Examining fantasy literature

The first inside story of this Jamaican reggae style

The larger-than-life story of an American dance icon.

Critical writings by the "father of Harlem radicalism".

Sacred and secular poems of the Creek Tribe.

The lifework of a preeminent New York School poet

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.

For more than a century, Friedrich Hoelderlin has been considered one of the key figures in modern European literature. The translations in Odes and Elegies, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep longing and heartbreak of Hoelderlin's poetic world.

Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds.

In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions.

This poetic collection is an honest and deeply reflective look at life overshadowed by disputed settlements and political upheaval in the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

In this micro-book, acclaimed "Poetry-Witch" Annie Finch harvests her Spells, spun at the intersection of magic, word, and world. Celebrated for her extraordinary love and knowledge of poetic craft and commitment to female, earth-centered spirituality, Finch has created a haunting innovative voice and radically traditional aesthetic.

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.

The first comprehensive illustrated history of Connecticut architecture

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

A darkly humorous look at etiquette

New vocabulary for a world on the brink

Poems about birth, death, and ecosystems of nature and power

An examination of popular Ethiopian music styles in Tel Aviv

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets