Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199348596 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorJudith Hamera is Professor of Dance in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University and author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007).
Judith Hamera is Professor of Dance in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University and author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007).
deindustrialization cannot be separated from issues of race, specifically from choreographed movements of African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times. How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? How are these trends represented in movement, in performance, and in culture? Looking at Detroit's postindustrial revitalization, The Heidelberg Project, and Michael Jackson's many performances, UnfinishedBusiness argues that U.S. Presenting Jackson and Detroit as material entities with specific histories and as representations with uncanny persistence, the book divulges invaluable lessons on three decades of structural economic transition in the U.S., particularly on the changing nature of work and capitalism between the mid-1980s and 2016. Jackson and Detroit offer examples of the racialization of these economic changes, how the