The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies | ISSN: 2452-0497
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Songs: “Just Good Friends,” “Man in the Mirror,” “Another Part of Me” (Captain EO) At the end of the last chapter, I hypothesized that hegemonic representations of Michael Jackson would generally aver their own authenticity in some way, while counter-hegemonic ones would disrupt any notion Read More …
Sources for Songs and Videos: Songs: Jackson, Michael. Bad. Epic Records, 1987. CD. All songs used. Jackson, Michael and John Barnes. “We Are Here to Change the World.” Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection. MJJ Productions, 2004. CD. Videos: “Bad,” dir. Martin Scorsese. Part 1: Gentili, Read More …
“I love to create magic—to put something together that’s so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people’s heads off. Something ahead of the times.” (Michael Jackson to Interview Magazine, October 1982). As you walk down the aisle at a record store, you spot a copy Read More …
Adorno, Theodor. “On Popular Music.” Storey Reader 73-84. Albrecht, Michael Mario. “Dead Man in the Mirror: The Performative Aspects of Michael Jackson’s Posthumous Body.” Journal of Popular Culture. 46.4 (2013): 705-724. Web. Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Storey Reader 336-346. “Bad, adj., n.2, Read More …