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1. Cover image for 'Tracks on the Trail'
Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency
Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
How music defines US presidential campaigns
 
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Web Open Access Forthcoming
2. Cover image for 'Racing the Great White Way'
Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Katie N. Johnson
How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web Open Access Forthcoming
3. Cover image for 'Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way'
Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance
Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell
A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies
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Ebook Forthcoming View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way"
4. Cover image for 'Living Labor'
Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
Joseph B. Entin
Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labor
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
5. Cover image for 'The Taylor Mac Book'
Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance
David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb, Editors
Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac
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Ebook 2023 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Taylor Mac Book"
6. Cover image for 'In the Lurch'
Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation
Ryan Claycomb
A spirited examination of the changing cultural climate for a once-lauded theatrical form
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Web 2023 Open Access Available Read Online
7. Cover image for 'Queer Voices in Hip Hop'
Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance
Lauron J. Kehrer
Positions queer and trans hip hop artists within a longer tradition of Black queer music
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
8. Cover image for 'Empire and Environment'
Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing, Editors
Explores environmental violence and recovery in Indigenous Pacific Islander, Asian North American, and Asian diasporic cultural expressions
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
9. Cover image for 'Staged Readings'
Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75
Michael D’Alessandro
How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Staged Readings"
10. Cover image for 'Contingent Encounters'
Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life
Dan DiPiero
Investigates the relationship between improvisation in music and in everyday life
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
11. Cover image for 'Marginal People in Deviant Places'
Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism
Janice M. Irvine
How twentieth-century ethnographers captured the diverse social worlds of outsiders
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
12. Cover image for 'Made-Up Asians'
Yellowface During the Exclusion Era
Esther Kim Lee
Why and how Asian characters have been represented by non-Asian actors on stage and screen
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Made-Up Asians"
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The Life and Work of Poet H.D.
Donna Krolik Hollenberg

A fresh look at the life and work of modernist poet H.D.

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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Winged Words"
14. Cover image for 'Collecting Lives'
Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century US Literatures
Elizabeth Rodrigues
How a group of modernist writers used their training as empiricists to create a data-driven aesthetic
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Web 2022 Open Access Available Read Online
15. Cover image for 'Uniform Feelings'
Scenes from the Psychic Life of Policing
Jessi Lee Jackson
Sheds light on the emotional dynamics behind policing with an eye toward its abolition.
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Uniform Feelings"
16. Cover image for 'For the Culture'
Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr., Editors
Examines the relationship between social justice, Hip-Hop culture, and resistance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "For the Culture"
17. Cover image for 'Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances'
Jill Stevenson
How Christian depictions of the End allow spectators to experience—and feel—their place within the future history of humankind
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Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Feeling the Future at Christian End-Time Performances"
18. Cover image for 'Democracy Moving'
Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past
Ariel Nereson

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2022 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Democracy Moving"
19. Cover image for 'Being Human during COVID'
Kristin Ann Hass, Editor
What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2021 Open Access Available Read Online
20. Cover image for 'Listening to the Lomax Archive'
The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s
Jonathan W. Stone
Exploring the rhetoric and cultural significance of African American folk music during the Great Depression
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Web 2021 Open Access Available Read Online
21. Cover image for 'Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance'
Nicole Hodges Persley
Explores expressions of blackness in Hip-hop performance by non-African American artists in the U.S. and Britain ?
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance"
22. Cover image for 'Land of Opportunity'
One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack
William M. Adler
The story of the Chambers brothers’ crack cocaine empire and the city that made them
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Land of Opportunity"
23. Cover image for 'Moving Islands'
Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific
Diana Looser
A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Moving Islands"
24. Cover image for 'Working Backstage'
A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor
Christin Essin
Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Working Backstage"
25. Cover image for 'Fashion Nation'
Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century
Sandra Tomc
The colorful relationship between ethnic nationalism and gaudy dress in the early 19th-century United States
Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2021 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Fashion Nation"
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The University of Michigan Press offers many titles as electronic books in EPUB, PDF, Kindle, and Audiobook formats.

Our EPUB and PDFs may be read using free Adobe Digital Editions software. Digital Editions is available for PC, Mac, major mobile platforms, and many e-reader devices. Visit the Adobe Digital Editions Supported Ebook Devices page for a complete list of e-reader devices that are compatible with the software and their FAQ page for other questions about the software.

Available Ebook reading systems vary widely in their support for accessibility features. For EPUB, visit EPUB Test for accessibility support information for specific platforms. Contact us if you have a question about the best reading system for your needs at umpress.accessibility@umich.edu.

Our Ebooks are currently offered under a single-user license, which means that your Ebook can be accessed by using one Adobe ID. Any computer authorized to this Adobe ID will be able to open the file. Learn more at the Adobe ID and Membership FAQ page.

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