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

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

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

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.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

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