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Publication AUMI-Futurism: the Elsewhere and "Elsewhen" of (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page(University of Exeter, 2018-01-10) Stewart, Jesse; Tucker, Sherrie; Williams, Peter; Haaheim, KipThis article discusses two performances that used the movement-to-music technology known as the "Adaptive Use Musical Instrument" or AUMI to allow differently-abled participants to collaborate with one another: (Un)Rolling the Boulder: Improvising New Communities, a multimedia, mixed-ability improvisation that was staged at the University of Kansas in October 2013 and Turning the Page, an interdisciplinary musical theatre piece premiered in Ottawa, Canada in April 2014. We theorize these performances as examples of "AUMI-Futurism”, combining insights gleaned from two different sources: the Afrofuturist philosophy of composer, improviser, and bandleader Sun Ra, and the work of disability studies scholar Alison Kafer. This essay examines the collaborative, improvisatory processes that surrounded (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page, focusing in particular on the role that the AUMI software played in imagining and performing new communities.Publication “Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i(eScholarship Publishing, 2017) Perreira, ChristopherThis article considers the 1884 criminal case and medical archive of Keanu, a Native Hawaiian prisoner sentenced to death in the Hawaiian courts for murder. Keanu’s sentence was commuted to “life in prison” after he consented to experimental leprosy (Hansen’s disease) inoculations. The article examines the tensions between Keanu’s prisoner–patient value and US imperialism as a discourse of social debt in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i. It argues that the figure of the prisoner–patient raises broad questions about the historical function of racialization, criminalization, and disease across medical discourse at that time. More specifically, it interrogates how those discourses were constructed around the figure of Keanu and reveals a transformation in his status from devalued social death to that of valuable social debt.Publication East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-06) Kim, Joo OkPublication Review of Children of the Dark House, Noel Polk(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Lester, CherylPublication Review of Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith & Image, Erika Doss(University of Kansas, 2001) Lester, CherylPublication From Columbine to Red Lake: Tragic Provocations for Advocacy. 2005 MAASA Presidential Address(University of Kansas, 2006-04) Lester, CherylPublication U.S. Music Studies in a Moment of Danger(University of California Press, 2011-09-01) Tucker, SherrieNo abstract is available for this item.Publication To Market, to Market: "The Portable Faulkner"(Wayne State University Press, 1987-06-01) Lester, CherylNo abstract is available for this item.Publication From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of Interrogation(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987-06-01) Lester, CherylNo abstract is available for this item.Publication Where Communism Was Black: Race, Culture and Radicalism in Depression Alabama.(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-03) Roediger, DavidPublication Race and the Working Class Past in the United States: Multiple Identities and the Future of Labor History.(Cambridge University Press, 1993-12) Roediger, DavidPublication The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror and Expansion, 1790-1860.(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999-12) Roediger, DavidPublication Freedom Breaks(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012-06) Roediger, DavidPublication Swing: From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen)(The MIT Press, 2013-10-08) Tucker, SherrieThe Hollywood Canteen (1942–1945) was the most famous of the USO and USO-like patriotic nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations during World War II. It is also the subject of much U.S. national nostalgia about the “Good War” and “Greatest Generation.” Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the Hollywood Canteen, this article focuses on the ways that interviewees navigated the forceful narrative terrain of national nostalgia, sometimes supporting it, sometimes pulling away from or pushing it in critical ways, and usually a little of each. This article posits a new interpretative method for analyzing struggles over “democracy” for jazz and swing studies through a focus on “torque” that brings together oral history, improvisation studies, and dance studies to bear on engaging interviewees' embodied narratives on ideologically loaded ground, improvising on the past in the present.Publication The look of the fair : Kansas county fairscapes, 1854-1994(University of Kansas, 1996) Ambler, Cathy J.Publication Afterword: O'Brien and America(University of Texas at Brownsville, the State University of New York-Oneonta, and Claflin University, 1991) Levine, StuartPublication Sweet Science(University of Texas at Brownsville, the State University of New York-Oneonta, and Claflin University, 1991) Levine, Stuart; Córdoba, Esteban O'BrienPublication Wimpy. Zing(University of Texas at Brownsville, the State University of New York-Oneonta, and Claflin University, 1994) Levine, StuartPublication In Praise of Diversity(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979) Levine, StuartPublication Killing in Okaraygua: An Inspector Irronogaray Mystery(Amazon Digital Services, 2012-09-05) Levine, Stuart