University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry
Poems, Poets, Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's...
Development in Multiple Dimensions
Social Power and Regional Policy in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Why do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimensions, Alexander Lee examines the origins of success and failure in the public services of developing countries. Comparing states within India, this study examines how...
Beyond Berlin
Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
*Beyond Berlin *breaks new ground in the ongoing effort to understand how memorials, buildings, and other spaces have figured in the larger German struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism. The contributors challenge reigning views of how the task of "coming to terms with the Nazi...
Aesthetics of Discomfort
Conversations on Disquieting Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally...
Unsettled History
Making South African Public Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 to South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions...
Rhymin' and Stealin'
Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Rhymin’ and Stealin’ begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material to new ends. Whether it is taking an old dance move for a breakdancing battle, using spray paint to create street art, quoting from a famous speech,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different...
Sounds of the Underground
A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In basements, dingy backrooms, warehouses, and other neglected places around the world music is being made that doesn't fit neatly into popular or classical categories and genres, whose often extreme sounds and tiny concerts hover on the fringes of these commercial and cultural mainstreams.
The...
The Biopolitics of Disability
Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion”...
Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism
Music, "Race," and Intellectuals in France, 1918-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Jeremy F. Lane’s Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane’s book closely examines the reception of jazz among French-speaking intellectuals between 1918 and 1945 and is the first study...
The Madisonian Turn
Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy....
Nothing Happened
Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Charlotte Salomon's (1917-43) fantastical autobiography, Life? or Theater?, consists of 769 sequenced gouache paintings, through which the artist imagined the circumstances of the eight suicides in her family, all but one of them women. But Salomon's focus on suicide was not merely a familial idiosyncrasy....
War on Autism
On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and...
The End of Normal
Identity in a Biocultural Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept...