Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.