Bøger udgivet af The University of Michigan Press

Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, contributors demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behaviour and fight to change social injustices.

Award-winning author James Tobin considers ideas of place, tradition, legacy, and pride while investigating two centuries of history at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. The book's 24 essays capture a series of moments that have contributed to the ongoing evolution of the University.

Tells the story of how early US commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research.

Includes 65 common academic literacy terms and explores how they relate to genres, writing conventions, and language use. Each entry briefly defines the term, identifies variations and tensions about its use across disciplines, provides examples, and includes reflection questions. An appendix lists further readings for each entry.

Examines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance to the fields of comparative politics, sociology, and feminist and gender studies.

In the spring of 1973, the Baharvand tribe from the Luristan province of central western Iran prepared to migrate from their winter pastures to their summer camp. That year, one migrating family allowed an outsider to make the trip with them. In this volume, Frank Hole describes the journey, the sites along the way, and the people he traveled with.

Frank Murphy was a Michigan man unafraid to speak truth to power. He is best remembered for his immense legal contributions supporting individual liberty and fighting discrimination. Justice and Faith explores Murphy's life and times by incorporating troves of archive materials not available to previous biographers.

The history of archaeological investigation at Killarney Bay stretches across parts of three centuries and involves field schools from universities in two countries. This volume pulls together the results from all prior research at the site and represents the first comprehensive report ever published on the excavations and finds at Killarney Bay.

Traces the main discourses associated with normalcy in world politics. Gezim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert focus on how dominant states and international organisations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states.

Explores this prevalent human desire to envision the End by analysing how various live End-Time performances allow people to live in and through future time. The book's main focus is contemporary Christian End-Time performances and how they theatrically construct encounters with future time.

Almost forty years after it happened, the Sian Incident still absorbs much attention from both Chinese and Western scholars as well as the reading public. The Sian Incident brings together whatever information has been thus far gleaned about the subject, and to cover all aspects and controversies involved in it.

Presents an inquiry into the problem of functions defined by Maclaurin series. Walter Burton Ford introduces his own theorem of asymptotic developments, as well as other mathematical theorems, and applies them to mathematical problems. This book was published with the hope of stimulating further research in the field.

When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst into bold and surprising new forms after the Second World War. Around the Absurd is the first book to examine the history, impact, and legacy of that theatre.

What is Hawthorne's eminent literary reputation - "enduring" or "hypertrophied"? Both views are represented in this collection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century evaluations. Hawthorne's reputation appears secure, yet his work is still the subject of significant critical controversy.

Based on dozens of original interviews and thousands of pages of documents, Discredited demonstrates just how far a university will go to preserve the athletic status quo: tolerating tarnished careers, ruined reputations, and years of scathing media criticism - all for a shot at competitive glory.