scholarly journals ‘They don’t care about us’: representing the black postcolonial subject through the appropriation of Michael Jackson in Gabonese urban dance

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Aterianus-Owanga
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Judith Hamera

This chapter examines Michael Jackson’s fiscal travails from 2002 to the release of This Is It in 2010, reading coverage of his consumption, debt, and attempts at recovery as racialized public melodrama. It begins with a scene of Jackson shopping in Las Vegas taken from Living with Michael Jackson, viewed through both the emerging consumer credit bubble and the temperance melodrama The Drunkard. It then turns to the ways testimony about Jackson’s finances, particularly his debts, played a pivotal role in his child molestation trial, reproducing a financialized melodramatic racial dialectic that emerged again in the subprime mortgage crisis. It concludes by reading parallels between accounts of Jackson’s physical wasting on the set of This Is It and that of the compulsively dancing child in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Red Shoes.” Both represent the process of disciplining past excesses through redemptive contraction as US austerity rhetoric reached a crescendo.


Bridges ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-38
Author(s):  
Melinda Goodman
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2009 ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
Magnus Ramage ◽  
Karen Shipp
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E-Compós ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Da Rosa
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Este artigo pretende investigar as estratégias que são promovidas para pôr em circulação as imagens jornalísticas. Trata-se, então, de um estudo sobre o que está distribuído midiaticamente e que é reinscrito em dispositivos diversos, portanto ao mesmo tempo circulação e circularidade. Assim, parte-se do pressuposto de que, cada vez mais há crescente número de imagens ofertadas, contudo, há um diminuto número de imagens que se fixam, as chamadas vetoras, ou que se tornam totens exatamente por seu potencial de fixação e autorreferencialidade, pois convocam estruturas profundas do imaginário e são chanceladas jornalisticamente. Para verificar tal hipótese, esta pesquisa apresenta como corpus um conjunto de imagens a respeito da morte de Michael Jackson. Como suporte teórico são empregados autores como Cassirer, Flusser, Baitelo Junior, Márcia Benetti e Ferreira, dentre outros. O que se busca responder é: como se dá a criação de imagens simbólicas ou totens pela midiatização?


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Céline Grünhagen

Religiosity and spirituality respectively have always been and will be subject to change. The emergence of the manifold forms of new religious and spiritual movements in the last century includes a variety of cult-like vener­ations of specific individuals, such as politicians (e.g. Mao, Lenin) and modern idols (e.g. Elvis Presley, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson), who are glorified like saints. Devotees gather annually for memorials of their departed idols or travel­ long distances to visit the tomb, former home, etc. of a specific person to pay tribute to him or her. Due to the motivations of these devotees, the trouble they take, the practices and the tangible emotionality that are connected with this phenomenon, it can be considered a form of pilgrimage. This article presents some thoughts about the glorification of celebrities which leads to these considerable forms of cult and pilgrimage, using as an example the case of Lady Diana Frances Spencer (d. 1997).


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ika Apriani Fata ◽  
Annisa Aprilya

This research aims to figure out the types of personification used in one of the famous albums namely Michael Jackson's Thriller and Invincible. The sources of data were 19 songs taken from Thriller and Invincible albums by Michael Jackson and the lyrics of the songs. The research design used was descriptive qualitative research with documentation analysis as the technique of data collection. The result showed that there were 65 personification expressions found in the albums. Those 65 personifications were categorized into four types of personification as proposed by Dorst et al. (2011) namely: conventionalized personification (33 expressions), novel personification (20 expressions), default personification (12 expressions), and personification-with-metonymy (0 expressions). The idea of conventionalized personification presents in the lyrics is to dig out the beauty and tranquility of nature to life. It also might address giving an object or animal-human characteristics to create interesting imagery to the ELT Students. Also, these songs are assumed as one of the various English materials in language teaching in the future since it has no sarcasm and motivating contexts throughout the lyrics themselves.


Author(s):  
Admink Admink

The peculiarities of the new artistic techniques in the Ukrainian ballet theater in 20-30’s of XX century have been analyzed under the influence of the historical, the socio-political, and the psychological changes in the society. It also has been emphasized on the creativity of the generation of choreographers-innovators and experimenters (M. Foregger, K. Goleizovski, A. Balanchivadze, V. Verhovynets).Key words: artistic and aesthetic canons, urban dance, Ukrainian ballet performance, classical heritage, choreographer’s style. Аналізуються особливості розгортання процесів новітніх художніх прийомів в українському балетному театрі в 20-30 років ХХ століття під впливом історичних, соціально-політичних, психологічних змін у тогочасному суспільстві. Акцентується зразки творчості нової генерації балетмейстерів-новаторів й експериментаторів, зокрема М. Фореггера, К. Голейзовського, А. Баланчивадзе, В. Верховинця. Виявлено нові форми художньої інтерпретації балетних вистав.Ключові слова: художньо-естетичні канони, урбаністичний танець, українська балетна вистава, класична спадщина, балетмейстерський стиль.


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