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Item specifics
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- 1st Edition
- ISBN
- 9780375423260
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375423265
ISBN-13
9780375423260
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46925003
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Michael Jackson
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Genre
Music, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-053489
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" culture critic comes a bracing, personal, and deeply thoughtful reflection on the cultural significance of Michael Jackson. It is an illuminating reckoning with the phenomenon, the enigma, and the genius of Michael Jackson., Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson's rise and fall? In "On Michael Jackson"--an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis--Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for "The New York Times Margo Jefferson" brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a "What Is It"? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the "chitlin' circuit" inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson's celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become "Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex, " while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson's presumed monstrosity? In short, how arewe all of us implicated? In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture., Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson's rise and fall? InOn Michael Jackson-an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis-Pulitzer Prizewinning critic forThe New York Times Margo Jeffersonbrilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a "What Is It"? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the "chitlin' circuit" inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson's celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become "Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex," while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson's presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture.
LC Classification Number
ML420.J175J44 2006
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