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| Title | : | Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1409446964 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
Christopher R. Smit is Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan in the USA.
' offers a captivating overview, detached and critical, it highlights and revisits in an illuminating way the narrative layers of a postmodern artist'. --Volume! (translated from French)
A mixed scholarly assessment of Jackson's impact on society morinen First of all, I have to say that for me, not a native English speaker, this book was very hard to read. It is overloaded with complex words and terminology - on top of elaborated linguistic and philosophic constructions that would be hard to understand even if they were explained in pictures. In other words, "Grasping the spectacle" is not easy to grasp. I have to admit, in some places I found myself utterly lost as to what an author was trying to express.But while on the surface the book seems "intelligent" and complicated, in many cases I found the essays hollow and lacking substantial meaning. Maybe in part this was due to my languag
Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle includes essays that aim to understand Jackson from multiple perspectives: critical cultural theory, musicology, art history, media studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, literary theory, gender studies, performance studies, disability studies, film studies, and African-American studies. The artefacts he left behind - music, interviews, books written by and about him, and commercial products including dolls, buttons, posters, and photographs, videos, movies - will all become data in our cultural conversation about who Michael Jackson was, who he wanted to be, who we made him to be, and why. Throughout his 40-year career, Michael Jackson intrigued and captivated public i
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