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- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- “wear, but a fine, clean copy!”
- ISBN
- 9780307277657
- Book Title
- On Michael Jackson
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Music, Social Science
- Topic
- Rich & Famous, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 6.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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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 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307277658
ISBN-13
9780307277657
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54359810
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Michael Jackson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, Composers & Musicians, Popular Culture, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music, Social Science
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
6.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml420.J175j44 2007
Reviews
"Stimulating.... Incisive, intelligent.... Engaging, well written and consistently on target." --"The New York Times" " Jefferson writes...with elegance and attitude....One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities." --"The Washington Post" "Sparkling....Eloquent and provocative.... Watching Margo Jefferson's mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance." --"O, The Oprah Magazine", "Stimulating.... Incisive, intelligent.... Engaging, well written and consistently on target." -The New York Times " Jefferson writes...with elegance and attitude....One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities." -The Washington Post "Sparkling....Eloquent and provocative.... Watching Margo Jefferson's mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance." -O, The Oprah Magazine, "Stimulating.... Incisive, intelligent.... Engaging, well written and consistently on target." -The New York Times "Jefferson writes...with elegance and attitude....One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities." -The Washington Post "Sparkling....Eloquent and provocative.... Watching Margo Jefferson's mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance." -O, The Oprah Magazine "Hers is a dazzling act of sustained vivacity and wisdom. Margo Jefferson brilliantly illuminates both Michael Jackson's psyche and his art, giving us in the process a fascinating broader picture of American pop culture. Shockingly, Jackson turns out to be as representative as he is singular." -Ann Douglas, author ofTerrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920sandThe Feminization of American Culture "Margo Jefferson, an unfailingly shrewd and eloquent cultural critic, finds in Michael Jackson a paradigm for probing the ambitions, desperations, triumphs, and sacrifices of an artist who stakes everything on a crown. Beyond palace intrigue, she explicates the meaning of show business masks, of racial and social determinants, of spectacle on stage and in the courtroom. She is compelling." -Gary Giddins, author ofWeather BirdandBing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, " Stimulating.... Incisive, intelligent.... Engaging, well written and consistently on target." -- "The New York Times" " Jefferson writes...with elegance and attitude....One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities." -- "The Washington Post" " Sparkling....Eloquent and provocative.... Watching Margo Jefferson's mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance." -- "O, The Oprah Magazine", "Stimulating.... Incisive, intelligent.... Engaging, well written and consistently on target." The New York Times "Jefferson writes...with elegance and attitude....One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities." The Washington Post "Sparkling....Eloquent and provocative.... Watching Margo Jefferson's mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance." O, The Oprah Magazine "Hers is a dazzling act of sustained vivacity and wisdom. Margo Jefferson brilliantly illuminates both Michael Jackson's psyche and his art, giving us in the process a fascinating broader picture of American pop culture. Shockingly, Jackson turns out to be as representative as he is singular." Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture "Margo Jefferson, an unfailingly shrewd and eloquent cultural critic, finds in Michael Jackson a paradigm for probing the ambitions, desperations, triumphs, and sacrifices of an artist who stakes everything on a crown. Beyond palace intrigue, she explicates the meaning of show business masks, of racial and social determinants, of spectacle on stage and in the courtroom. She is compelling." Gary Giddins, author of Weather Bird and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams From the Trade Paperback edition., "Stimulating.... Incisive, intelligent.... Engaging, well written and consistently on target." - The New York Times "Jefferson writes...with elegance and attitude....One closes the book hungry to hear her take on other talented but troubled celebrities." - The Washington Post "Sparkling....Eloquent and provocative.... Watching Margo Jefferson's mind at work is as pleasurable and thrilling as seeing Michael Jackson dance." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Hers is a dazzling act of sustained vivacity and wisdom. Margo Jefferson brilliantly illuminates both Michael Jackson's psyche and his art, giving us in the process a fascinating broader picture of American pop culture. Shockingly, Jackson turns out to be as representative as he is singular." -Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture "Margo Jefferson, an unfailingly shrewd and eloquent cultural critic, finds in Michael Jackson a paradigm for probing the ambitions, desperations, triumphs, and sacrifices of an artist who stakes everything on a crown. Beyond palace intrigue, she explicates the meaning of show business masks, of racial and social determinants, of spectacle on stage and in the courtroom. She is compelling." -Gary Giddins, author of Weather Bird and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Dewey Edition
23
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