Unfinished Business - Michael Jackson, Detroit, Figural Economy of American

Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be separated from race, specifically from choreographed movements of African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: "Never Can Say Goodbye": U.S. Deindustrialization as Unfinished Business


• Part I: Michael Jackson's Spectacular Deindustriality


• Chapter One The Labors of Michael Jackson: Transitional Deindustriality, Dance, and Virtuous(o) Work


• Chapter Two Consuming Passions, Wasted Efforts: Michael Jackson's Financial(-ized) Melodramas


• Part II: Detroit's Deindustrial Homeplaces


• Chapter Three Combustible Hopes on the National State: Figuring Race, Work, and Home in "not necessarily") Detroit


• Chapter Four Up From the Ashes: Art in Detroit's Emerging Phoenix Narrative


• Coda Still Unfinished . . . .


• References


• Index

About the author

Judith Hamera is Professor of Dance in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, with affiliations in American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Urban Studies, Princeton University. She is the author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007).

Summary

Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be separated from race, specifically from choreographed movements of African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times.

Additional text

This book is an insightful analysis of deindustrialization with a Detroit perspective ... Recommended. Graduate students through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Hamera, Judith (Professor of Dance Hamera, Hamera Judith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780199348596
• ISBN: 978-0-19-934859-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; USA, Dance, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Ethnic, United States of America, USA, Theory of music & musicology, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Theory of music and musicology