Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggar

Reed explores the impact of early American theatre's portrayals of outlaw characters and the troubling force of the low in theatrical imagination.

The banjo has been called by many names over its history, but they all refer to the same sound—strings humming over skin—that has eased souls and electrifie

An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” di

Rowdy Carousals makes important interventions in nineteenth-century theatre history with regard to the Bowery Boy, a raucous, white, urban character most famous