University Of Rochester Press imprint: 79 books
Burma's Pop Music Industry
Creators, Distributors, Censors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within...
by Dennis A. Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred....
by Rebecca Shumway
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya...
by Solimar Otero
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once...
Performative Analysis
Reimagining Music Theory for Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book proposes a model for understanding the musical work in which both analysis-based and performance-based modes of interpretation are integral to the work. Jeffrey Swinkin explores the important role that performance plays in elucidating a work and argues for the performative nature of music...
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial...
by P. J. Brendese
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
George Orwell famously argued that those who control the past control the future, and those who control the present control the past. In this study of the relationship between democracy and memory, P. J. Brendese examines Orwell's insight, revealing how political power affects what is available to...
Ira Aldridge
The Last Years, 1855-1867
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography, places on record Aldridge's remarkable achievements and experiences in the final phase of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. His first Continental tour in 1852-1855 had been...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason/;...
by John Zumbrunnen
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democratic impulses: a rebelliousness...
Enchanted Calvinism
Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Enchanted Calvinism's central proposition is that Ghanaian Presbyterian communities, both past and present, have become more enchanted -- more attuned to spiritual explanations of and remedies for suffering -- as they have become integrated into capitalist modes of production. The author draws on...
by Jason Bruner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Starting in the mid-1930s, East African revivalists (or, Balokole: "the saved ones") proclaimed a message of salvation, hoping to revive the mission churches of colonial East Africa. Frustrated by what they believed to be the tepid spiritual state of missionary Christianity, they preached...
Educating Liberty
Democracy and Aristocracy in J.S. Mill's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Alexis de Tocqueville famously identified the problem of democracy as the "tyranny of the majority," where the rule of the majority oppresses or marginalizes minorities and individuals. John Stuart Mill, perhaps more than any other liberal thinker, attempted to find a solution to this problem....
Fit to Practice
Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven with the institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory...