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Michael Jackson and the Reinvention of Pop
Paperback
Entertainment & Performing ArtsBlack American HistoryMusic Reference
ISBN13: 9781977682901
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Sep 27 2017
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How one artist reshaped the sound, image, and ambition of popular music.
Before Michael Jackson, white rock dominated radio, MTV, and the pages of mainstream music journalism. Black artists were often confined to segregated charts and second-class categories. And pop was still shorthand for disposable, bubblegum fluff. After Michael Jackson, pop became the umbrella for all of popular music-an expansive, genre-defying art form that could absorb rock, R&B, funk, disco, and soul. And a Black artist was crowned its undisputed king.In Michael Jackson and the Reinvention of Pop, critically acclaimed author Joseph Vogel-whose groundbreaking book Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson redefined Jackson scholarship-brings together seven of his most influential essays originally published in major outlets such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and PopMatters. Taken together, these pieces trace how Jackson did more than top charts. He reimagined the very architecture of popular culture. He transformed the album into a cinematic event, the music video into high art, the live performance into global spectacle. He blurred racial and genre boundaries, fused sound and image with unprecedented precision, and elevated pop into a space of ambition, innovation, and cultural power.
Taken together, these pieces trace how Jackson did more than top charts. He reimagined the very architecture of popular culture. He transformed the album into a cinematic event, the music video into high art, the live performance into global spectacle. He blurred racial and genre boundaries, fused sound and image with unprecedented precision, and elevated pop into a space of ambition, innovation, and cultural power.
At a time when Jackson's legacy remains both towering and contested, Vogel returns to the work itself-the music, the films, the performances-to explore how one artist reshaped not only what pop sounded like, but what it meant.
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