On Michael Jackson
ΡΠ°Π½ 2006. Β· Vintage
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The renowned Pulitzer Prizeβwinning cultural critic brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time in this passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis.
Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a βWhat Is Itβ? 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 βchitlinβ circuitβ inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jacksonβs 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 βAlone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,β 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 Jacksonβs presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated?
In this stunning 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.
Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a βWhat Is Itβ? 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 βchitlinβ circuitβ inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jacksonβs 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 βAlone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,β 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 Jacksonβs presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated?
In this stunning 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.
The renowned Pulitzer Prizeβwinning cultural critic brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time in this passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis.
Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a βWhat Is Itβ? What do P. T. B...
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The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism,Β Margo JeffersonΒ previously served as book and arts critic forΒ NewsweekΒ andΒ theΒ New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications,Β Vogue,Β New YorkΒ Magazine,Β The Nation, andΒ Guernica. Her memoir,Β Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author ofΒ On Michael JacksonΒ and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book...
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