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Sto caricando le informazioni... Michael Jackson's Dangerous (33 1/3)di Susan Fast
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Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood-politically questioning, sexually charged-yet unable to convince a skeptical public who had, by this time, been wholly indoctrinated by a vicious media. Even though the record sold well, few understood or were willing to accept the depth and breadth of Jackson's vision; and then before it could be fully grasped, it was eclipsed by a shifting pop music landscape and personal scandal-the latter perhaps linked to his assertive new politics. This book tries to cut through the din of dominant narratives about Jackson, taking up the mature, nuanced artistic statement he offered on Dangerous in all its complexity. It is read here as a concept album, one that offers a compelling narrative arc of postmodern angst, love, lust, seduction, betrayal, damnation, and above all else racial politics, in ways heretofore unseen in his music. This record offered a Michael Jackson that was mystifying for a world that had accepted him as a child and as childlike and, hence, as safe; this Michael Jackson was, indeed, dangerous. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)782.42166092The arts Music Vocal music Secular Forms of vocal music Secular songs General principles and musical forms Song genres Rock songs History, geographic treatment, biography BiographyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.5)
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I’ve been listening to Michael Jackson since I can remember. As a kid in Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom had some curious rules about MJ’s music. You could possess a Michael Jackson tape, but no store in the country was allowed to sell his music. This led to a weird, speakeasy vibe at music stores where the proprietor would size you up and decide whether it was safe to offer you the illicit goods behind the counter. I must have looked like quite a shady character, because I was always offered a chance to buy bootleg copies of Thriller or Off The Wall. We moved to America in 1990, and when Dangerous came out the following year, it was a different experience for me. I could go into any Sam Goody or Musicland and buy the tape openly. But, just like the change in my life moving from the Middle East to the US, Michael Jackson had changed too.
As Susan Fast states in the book, Dangerous was a maturing point in Jackson’s music. The music is more overtly political, and less happy go lucky. There’s an extensive exploration of the expanding of Jackson’s emotional palette, which is explored extensively in each chapter of the book. There’s some allusion to Jackson’s strange relationships to kids, but they’re framed as MJ creating his own family to substitute for the family life he wasn’t able to have as a kid. This is a bit of a cop out, but the book is by a fan so we can’t expect a totally objective look into the less savory aspects of MJ’s life.
If you can separate Michael Jackson’s art from the man, then I recommend this book. (