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Unfinished business : Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the figural economy of U.S. deindustrialization / Judith Hamera. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamera, Judith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009--Criticism and interpretation.
- Jackson, Michael.
- Deindustrialization--Social aspects--United States.
- Deindustrialization.
- Detroit (Mich.)--Economic conditions.
- Detroit (Mich.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? Who represents hope? Who are the cautionary tales? 'Unfinished Business' argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race, and specifically apart from images of, and works by and about African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times. It insists that Michael Jackson's performances and coverage of his life, plays featuring Detroit, plans for the city's postindustrial revitalization, and Detroit installations The Heidelberg Project and Mobile Homestead have something valuable to teach us about 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "Never can say goodbye": US deindustrialization as unfinished business
- Part I: Michael Jackson's spectacular deindustriality. The labors of Michael Jackson: transitional deindustriality, dance, and virtuous(o) work
- Consuming passions, wasted efforts: Michael Jackson's financial(-ized) melodramas
- Part II: Detroit's deindustrial homeplaces. Combustible hopes on the national stage: figuring race, work, and home in ("not necessarily" Detroit
- Up from the ashes: art in Detroit's emerging Phoenix narrative
- Coda: Still unfinished.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 16, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-934861-8
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