Judith Hamera

Unfinished Business

Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization

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Produktbeschreibung

Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be separated from race, specifically from choreographed movements of African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780199348596
• ISBN-10: 0199348596
• Artikelnr.: 48022506

Autorenporträt

Judith Hamera is Professor of Dance in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, with affiliations in American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Urban Studies, Princeton University. She is the author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction: "Never Can Say Goodbye": U.S. Deindustrialization as
Unfinished Business
* Part I: Michael Jackson's Spectacular Deindustriality
* Chapter One The Labors of Michael Jackson: Transitional
Deindustriality, Dance, and Virtuous(o) Work
* Chapter Two Consuming Passions, Wasted Efforts: Michael Jackson's
Financial(-ized) Melodramas
* Part II: Detroit's Deindustrial Homeplaces
* Chapter Three Combustible Hopes on the National State: Figuring Race,
Work, and Home in "not necessarily") Detroit
* Chapter Four Up From the Ashes: Art in Detroit's Emerging Phoenix
Narrative
* Coda Still Unfinished . . . .
* References
* Index