Songs are an integral part of college life, sung at sporting events, Glee Club concerts, graduations, and many other events.
Professor Mark Clague from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance explores the history of many familiar—and unfamiliar—U-M songs, tracing their origins, the social functions of songs and singing on campus, and how racism and sexism are heard in American popular music and thus echoes in the University’s own historical songbook.