University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Dameronia
The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Dameronia is the first authoritative biography of Tadd Dameron, an important and widely influential figure in jazz history as one of the most significant composers and arrangers of jazz, swing, bebop, and big band. He arranged for names like Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Dizzy Gillespie...
Chamber Music
An Essential History
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Intended for the music student, the professional musician, and the music lover, Chamber Music: An Essential History covers repertoire from the Renaissance to the present, crossing genres to include string quartets, piano trios, clarinet quintets, and other groupings. Mark A. Radice gives a thorough...
Beyond Notation
The Music of Earle Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Earle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown’s work by exploring...
Detroit Country Music
Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The richness of Detroit’s music history has by now been well established. We know all about Motown, the MC5, and Iggy and the Stooges. We also know about the important part the Motor City has played in the history of jazz. But there are stories about the music of Detroit that remain untold. One...
The Aesthetics of Survival
A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays
"Rochberg presents the rare spectacle of a composer who has made his peace with tradition while maintaining a strikingly individual profile. . . . [H]e succeeds in transforming the sublime concepts of traditional...
Good Vibrations
Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Good Vibrations brings together scholars with a variety of expertise, from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the contributions to popular culture and popular music of one the most successful and influential pop bands of the twentieth century. The book covers the...
by Kimberly Jannarone
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Artaud and His Doublesis a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of...
Spectacles of Reform
Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with “sensation scenes” of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of...
The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China
Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China explores how an important group of Chinese performing artists invested in politics and the pursuit of the avant-garde came to terms with different ways of being “popular” in modern times. In particular, playwright and activist Tian Han (1898-1968)...
Salome's Modernity
Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomé has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present....
Becoming a Nazi Town
Culture and Politics in Göttingen between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Becoming a Nazi Townreveals the ways in which ordinary Germans changed their cultural lives and their politics from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. Casting the origins of Nazism in a new light, David Imhoof charts the process by which Weimar and Nazi culture flowed into each other. He analyzes this...
Immersions in Cultural Difference
Tourism, War, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock...
Publishing Blackness
Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for...
The Isthmus of Corinth
Crossroads of the Mediterranean World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The narrow neck of land that joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland was central to the fortunes of the city of Corinth and the history of Greece from the classical Greek period to the end of the ancient world. Corinth was perfectly situated for monitoring land traffic between Athens and...