Unfinished Business - Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization (Paperback)

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, Unfinished Business 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 the mid-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 both very similar to and very different from its predecessor.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2017
Authors:	Judith Hamera (Professor of Dance)
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-934859-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Dance > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-934859-6
Barcode:	9780199348596

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