A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music critic From the age of song sheets in the late ninet

The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shif

“[An] enlightening and entertaining . . . survey of the world’s oldest profession” from the Whore of Babylon to the modern sex-worker movement (Kirkus Rev

Love for Sale is the first study to examine the ubiquity of commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the nineteenth century through the f

Kruger's practice reflects the discovery, evident throughout contemporary art, of the formative power of images, the capacity of signs to affect deep structures