Coming Soon

CHANGING CITIES, SHIFTING STAGES

by Blair Ruble

This book is built on stories about how the performing arts reveal urban transformation, and is shaped around case studies. Four (dance in Montreal, theater in Washington, Toronto, and Kyiv) illustrate how the emergence of new performance cultures reflect deeper changes in their cities.  The fifth case study (commercial music in Nashville) reverses the causal arrows to illustrate how the arts transform the city.

This is the third book in a trilogy, following The Muse of Urban Delirium and Performing Presence.

Coming in October