Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask
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Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask

About this book

Michael Jackson challenged the power structure of the American music industry and struck at the heart of blackface minstrelsy, America's first form of mass entertainment. The response was a derisive caricature that over time Jackson subverted through his art.

In this expanded, all-new edition, Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask argues for the tangible relationship between Jackson and blackface minstrelsy. It reveals the dialogue at minstrelsy's core and, in its broader sense, tracks a centuries-long pattern of racial oppression and its resistance and how that has been played out in popular theatre. Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask explores Jackson's early talent and fame and the birth and escalation of 'Wacko Jacko'. In relation to all this, the book examines Jackson's dynamic art as it evolved, from his live performances and short films to the very surface of his own body.

Scholarly and interdisciplinary, this work is suitable for readers across a diverse spectrum of academic fields, including African American studies, popular music studies and cultural theory, media and communication, gender studies and performance and theatre studies. Academic but accessible, this book will also be an engaging read for anyone interested in Michael Jackson and especially in his role as an icon of difference, in America's dynamics of race and his mass media image.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032056500
eBook ISBN
9781000894516
Edition
2
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsements Page
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Contents
  9. List of Illustrations
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Michael Jackson and the Afterlife of Blackface Minstrelsy
  12. 1 ā€˜Billie Jeanā€™ at Motown 25: Blackface Minstrelsy for a New Generation
  13. 2 ā€˜Weel About and Turn About and Do Jis Soā€™: The Demands and Desires of Antebellum Minstrel Theatre
  14. 3 ā€˜Itā€™s Black, Itā€™s Whiteā€™: Hollywood, Racial Stereotypes and the Blackface Mask
  15. 4 ā€˜We Wear the Mask That Grins and Liesā€™: The Black Minstrel Tradition
  16. 5 ā€˜Wacko Jackoā€™: Michael Jacksonā€™s Misrepresentation and Its Strategic Resistance
  17. 6 ā€˜The Truth of Lust, Woman to Manā€™: The (Re)masculation of Michael Jackson
  18. 7 ā€˜Come and Rescue Me Out of This Stormā€™: The Question of Michael Jacksonā€™s Legacy
  19. Index