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Amisu, Elizabeth. “‘Arrojar Piedras Y Esconder Las Manos’: La Personalidad Humana De Michael Jackson.” [In Spanish]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 3.
———. “‘Bad (1987)’.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2014): 4.
———. “‘Crack Music’: Michael Jackson’s ‘Invincible’.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2015): 1.
———. “‘Crack Music’: Michael Jackson’s ‘Invincible’ – Dangerous Philosophies 4/12.” [In Italian]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 4.
———. “The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson.” [In Italian]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 4.
———. “‚Die Insel Ist Voller Geräusche‘: Erneuter Besuch Beim „Peter Pan Des Pop“.” [In German]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 2.
———. “Earth Song: Inside Michael Jackson’s Magnum Opus by Joseph Vogel (Blake Vision, 2011).” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 1.
———. “¿Estamos Perdiendo a Michael Jackson De Nuevo?” [In Spanish]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 3.
———. “Heard It on the Grapevine.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 3.
———. “‘The Isle Is Full of Noises’: Revisiting the Peter Pan of Pop.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 2.
———. “On Michael Jackson’s ‘Dancing the Dream’.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2014): 3.
———. “‘Throwing Stones to Hide Your Hands’: The Mortal Persona of Michael Jackson.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 5.
Arnold, Regina “Profit without Honor: Michael Jackson in and out of America, 1983–2009.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 75–83.
Bayer, Konrad Sidney. “The Semiosis of Soul: Michael Jackson’s Use of Popular Music Conventions.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 45-63.
Bowers, Toni. “Dancing with Michael Jackson.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015): 3.
Brackett, David. “Black or White? Michael Jackson and the Idea of Crossover.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 169-85.
Breaux, Richard M. ““I’m a Cartoon!” the Jackson 5ive Cartoon as Comodified Civil Rights & Black Power
Ideologies, 1971-1973.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 79-99.
Bremner, Anne Melani. “Lessons from the Michael Jackson Trial. Part 2: Why the Defense Won – What They Did Right.”? (?).
Broertjes, Andrew. ““He’s Sending His People Messages out of His Pain”: Michael Jackson and the Black Community.” Popular Music and Society 36, no. 5 (2013): 677-98.
Burnett, Robert and Burt Deivert. “Black or White: Michael Jackson’s Video as a Mirror of Popular Culture.” Popular Music and Society 19, no. 3 (1995).
Carr, Firpo W. “Michael Jackson Motivated.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 42-44.
Caruthers, Jakeya, and Alisa Bierria. “Stay with Me: Reflections on Michael Jackson, Sound, Sex, and (Racial) Solidarity.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 125-32.
Chin, Elizabeth. “Michael Jackson’s Panther Dance: Double Consciousness and the Uncanny Business of Performing While Black.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 58-74.
Cooper, B. Lee, and William L. Schurk. “Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 317-19.
Danielsen, Anne. “The Sound of Crossover: Micro-Rhythm and Sonic Pleasure in Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 151-68.
Delmont, Matthew. “Michael Jackson & Television before Thriller.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 64-78.
Ebmeier, Jochen. “Das Phänomen Michael Jackson.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2014): 2.
Fast, Susan. “Difference That Exceeded Understanding: Remembering Michael Jackson (1958–2009).” Popular Music and Society 33, no. 2 (2010): 259-66.
———. “Michael Jackson’s Queer Musical Belongings.” Popular Music & Society 49, no. 2 (2012): 281-300.
———. “Susan Fast: Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Album – Kapitel ‘Soul’-‘Seele’.” [In German]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015): 1.
Faust, Jeremy Samuel. ““When You Have to Say ‘I Do’”: Orientalism in Michael Jackson’s “Liberian Girl”.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 223-40.
Fischer, D. “Wannabe Startin’ Somethin’: Michael Jackson’s Critical Race Representation.” Journal of Popular Music Studies (2011): 96-107.
Fischer, Dawn-Elissa. “Wannabe Startin’ Somethin’: Michael Jackson’s Critical Race Representation.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 96-107.
Gomez-Barris, M., and H. Gray. “Michael Jackson, Television, and Post-Op Disasters.” Television & New Media 7, no. 1 (2006): 40-51.
Gondwe, Gregory. “Going Beyond the Eye: The Visual and Oral Aesthetics of Michael Jackson from an African Perspective.” Visual Communication Quarterly 20, no. 4 (2013): 239-45.
Goodman, Melinda. “Eulogy for Michael Jackson.” Bridges 15, no. 2 (2010): 37-38.
Hills, M. “Michael Jackson Fans on Trial? Documenting Emotivism and Fandom in Wacko About Jacko.” Social Semiotics (2007): 459-77.
Hollander, P. “Michael Jackson, the Celebrity Cult, and Popular Culture.” Society (2009): 1-6.
Izod, John. “Androgyny and Stardom: Cultural Meanings of Michael Jackson.” The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 14, no. 3 (1995): 63-74.
Jackson, Michael. “Love: The Human Family’s Most Precious Legacy.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 4-13.
———. “Michael Jackson Appears at Oxford University.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 31 (2001): 18.
Johansson, Mats. “Michael Jackson and the Expressive Power of Voice-Produced Sound.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 261-79.
Khan, Amir. “Michael Jackson’s Ressentiment: ‘Billie Jean’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ in Conversation with Fred Astaire.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 187-201.
King, Jason. “Form and Function: Super Stardom and Aesthetics in the Music Videos of Michael and Janet Jackson.” Velvet Light Trap 44 (1999): 80-96.
Lynch, Christopher. “Ritual Transformation through Michael Jackson’s Music Video.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 25, no. 2 (2001): 114-31.
Mann, R. S. “Neuroscience. The Michael Jackson Fly.” Science 344, no. 6179 (Apr 4 2014): 48-9.
Martin, Sylvia J. “The Roots and Routes of Michael Jackson’s Global Identity.” Society 49, no. 3 (2012): 284-90.
Martinec, Radan. “Construction of Identity in Michael Jackson’s Jam.” Social Semiotics 10, no. 3 (2000): 313-29.
McCristal, Jerome. “The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, and Culture.” Michigan Law Review 92, no. 8 (1994): 2613-44.
Mercer, Kobena. “Monster Metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.” Screen 27, no. 1 (1986): 26-43.
Merx, Karin. “‘Dangerous’ Von Dr. Susan Fast.” [In German]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 2.
———. ““Dangerous” by Dr. Susan Fast.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 4.
———. “From Throne to Wilderness: Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger in Moscow’ and the Foucauldian Outlaw.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015): 4.
Mitchell, Gregory. ““Michael, Eles Não Ligam Pra Gente!” Brazilian Rentboys, Queer Affinity, and the Michael Jackson Exception.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 109-23.
Nyong’o, Tavia. “Have You Seen His Childhood? Song, Screen, and the Queer Culture of the Child in Michael Jackson’s Music.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 40-57.
O’Brien, Sandra. “Michael Jackson Story Quilt: Michael’s Message in Fabric and Felt.” LMJ Magazine (29 July 2015).
Ostaszewska, Aneta “Michael Jackson’s Death as a Social Event.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 1.
Poulson-Bryant, Scott. “Michael by Michael Jackson.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 2 (2011): 249-51.
Roberts, Tamara. “Michael Jackson’s Kingdom: Music, Race, and the Sound of the Mainstream.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 19-39.
Roberts, Tamara, and Brandi Wilkins Catanese. “Michael Jackson in/as U.S. Popular Culture.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 1-2.
Rossiter, Brian. ““They Don’t Care About Us”: Michael Jackson’s Black Nationalism.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 203-22.
Royster, Francesca T. “‘Hee Hee Hee’: Michael Jackson and the Transgendered Erotics of Voice.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 5.
Scriven, Darryl. “Michael Jackson & the Psycho/Biology of Race.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 100-05.
Silberman, Seth Clark. “Presenting Michael Jackson™.” Social Semiotics (2007): 417-40.
Sokol, Daniel K. “Ethics Man: Hippocrates, Michael Jackson, and Medical Ethics.” British Medical Journal 339, no. 7720 (2009): 541.
Stegner-Petitjean, Isabelle. “‘The Voice in the Mirror’: Michael Jackson: From a Vocal Identity to Its Double in Sound.” Volume! 8, no. 2 (2011): 222-53.
Vigo, Julian. “Metaphor of Hybridity: The Body of Michael Jackson.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 29-41.
Vogel, Joseph. ““I Ain’t Scared of No Sheets”: Re-Screening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson’s Black or White.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 27, no. 1 (2015): 90-123.
Wallace, Michele. “Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and ‘the Ecstasy of Communication’.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015): 2.
———. “Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and the Ecstasy of Communication.” Third Text 3, no. 7 (1989): 11-22.
Warwick, Jacqueline. ““You Can’t Win, Child, but You Can’t Get out of the Game”: Michael Jackson’s Transition from Child Star to Superstar.” Popular Music and Society 35, no. 2 (2012): 241-59.
Williams, Gershom. “Michael Jackson: Color Complex and the Politics of White Supremacy.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no. 7 (2010): 106-12.
Yeoh Kah Sin, Dennis. “‘Did I Scare You?’: The Curious Case of Michael Jackson as Gothic Narrative.” Studies in Gothic Fiction 1, no. 1 (2009).
Zien, Katherine, and Jason Lazarus. “Carving a Sonic Path through Stratified Spaces: The Michael Jackson Memorial Procession.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 1 (2011): 85-93.