University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by Steve Swayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
"The research is voluminous, as is the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim's music."
---Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History
"Sondheim's career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined,...
The Black Musician and the White City
Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular...
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."
--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades
"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly...
Deployed
How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
"Deployed is an important and deeply moving book. Here, in this story, the heroic tradition of the American citizen-soldier lives on."
---Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor, Boston University, and author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
"Whatever your...
Deckhand
Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.
With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand...
Gates of Freedom
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now." These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech given a hundred years earlier by Voltairine de Cleyre, a leading anarchist and radical thinker. A contemporary of Emma Goldman---who...
Sails of the Herring Fleet
Essays on Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Sails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his work. In addition to...
Textual Conspiracies
Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which...
Africa's World Cup
Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Spacefocuses on a remarkable month in the modern history of Africa and in the global history of football. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann are well-known experts on South African football, and they have assembled an impressive...
Joyce/Foucault
Sexual Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Sheds new light on James Joyce's use of sexual motifs as cultural raw material for Ulysses and other works
Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions examines instances of sexual confession in works of James Joyce, with a special emphasis on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Using...
Reality Principles
From the Absurd to the Virtual
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“Herbert Blau’s long sustained inquiry into theater’s most provocative questions—presence, liveness, and finitude—are, at their deepest level, queries into life. Reality Principles returns us to Blau’s inspiring provocations and extends them to new subjects—9/11 and Ground Zero, the...
James Baldwin
America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
"This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility,...
Set in Motion
Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Set in Motion collects for the first time the prose writings of A. R. Ammons, one of our most important and enduring contemporary poets. Hailed as a major force in American poetry by such redoubtable critics as Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler, Ammons has reflected upon the influences of luminaries...
Lessons from the Past
The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus...