Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization

Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
ISBN-10
0199348596
ISBN-13
9780199348596
Series
Unfinished Business
Category
Music
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Judith Hamera

Description

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. 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. 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 themid-1980s and 2016. Jackson and Detroit offer examples of the racialization of these economic changes, how they operate as structures of feeling and representations as well as shifts in the dominant mode of production, and how industrialization's successor mode, financialization, uses imagery bothvery similar to and very different from its predecessor.

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