University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Committee
A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce—one of the most powerful committees in Congress—Bruce C. Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer’s look at how committees develop and promote legislation. With...
by Osvaldo F. Pardo
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Osvaldo F. Pardo examines the early dissemination of European views on law and justice among Mexico’s native peoples. Newly arrived from Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mendicant friars brought not only their faith in the authority of the Catholic Church but also their reverence...
Hearing Harmony
Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Hearing Harmony offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic...
by Lily E Hirsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Although the use of music for extramusical purposes has been a part of American culture for some time, the phenomenon remained largely unknown to the general public until revelations became widespread of startling military practices during the second Iraq War. In Music in American Crime Prevention...
Krautrock
German Music in the Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Krautrock is a catch-all term for the music of various white German rock groups of the 1970s that blended influences of African American and Anglo-American music with the experimental and electronic music of European composers. Groups such as Can, Popol Vuh, Faust, and Tangerine Dream arose out of...
by Christopher Coady
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
For critics and listeners, the reception of the 1950s jazz-classical hybrid Third Stream music has long been fraught. In John Lewis and the Challenge of “Real” Black Music, Christopher Coady explores the work of one of the form’s most vital practitioners, following Lewis from his role as an...
I Hear a Symphony
Motown and Crossover R&B
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues...
Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish...
by Joanna Mansbridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Paula Vogel’s plays, including the Pulitzer–prizewinning How I Learned to Drive, initiate a conversation with contemporary culture, staging vexed issues like domestic violence, pornography, and AIDS. She does not write "about" these concerns, but instead examines how they have become...
Long Suffering
American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Long Suffering productively links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano,...
Great Lengths
Seven Works of Marathon Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
We know that size matters in many areas of human endeavor, but what about works of the imagination? Why do some dramatic creations extend to five hours or more, and how does their extreme length help them accomplish extraordinarily ambitious aims? In Great Lengths, theater critic and scholar Jonathan...
Preaching to Convert
Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Preaching to Convert offers an intriguing new perspective on the outreach strategies of U.S. evangelicals, framing them as examples of activist performance, broadly defined as acts performed before an audience in the hopes of changing hearts and minds. Most writing about activist performance has focused...
Ten Thousand Nights
Highlights from 50 Years of Theatre-Going
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960...
Other Germans
Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.
Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely...