The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson

However people remember Jackson, no one can deny that, in cultural terms, Jackson remains a compelling subject: an icon of the late 20th century, he reflects not only the changes in the circumstances of the African American population, but changes in white America. Jackson was idolized, perhaps even reified and, for many, objectified into an extraordinary being, an Other, for whom there were no established reference points in white people''s conceptions. places Jackson at the center of its argument, but maintains he was a creation of, at first, American and, later, global culture at a time when it seemed desirable, if not necessary to exalt aBlack person on merit. America had become a society in which someone of Jackson''s indisputable genius not only can, but must, rise to the top.>

Product details

• Authors: Ellis Cashmore, Ellis (Aston University UK) Cashmore
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781501363580
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-6358-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 232 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Musicians, singers, bands and groups