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Author : C. Mecca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965517416
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson American Master written by C. Mecca and published by . This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Mecca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913543955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson written by C. Mecca and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Jackson American master is more than a chronicle of the accomplishments of a man. It transcends his childhood, and bypasses the title of the King of Pop. It defines mastership, and elevates Michael Jackson to Master of our time and generation.
Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277658
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book On Michael Jackson written by Margo Jefferson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time in this passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a “What Is It”? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the “chitlin’ circuit” inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson’s celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become “Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,” while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson’s presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In this stunning book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture.
Author : Raamayan Ananda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692783290
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson written by Raamayan Ananda and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think they knew Michael Jackson, but they only knew what the media fed them. This book peels back the layers of mystery and reveals who Michael Jackson truly was, the Man Behind The Mirror. Through his poetry, his shamanic dance and his true unifying message, we see the REAL Michael Jackson.
Author : K.C. Kelley
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164280438X
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson written by K.C. Kelley and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the King of Pop, Michael Jackson is one of the most amazing entertainers in history. His catchy songs became number-one hits in many countries. In this fascinating introduction, young readers will learn about Michael’s early life and his path to the top of the charts and the pop music world. Each 24-page book in this series of introductory biographies features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The narrative text, colorful design, and colorful photos will speak to even the most reluctant of readers.
Author : Katherine Krohn
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 1512451843
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson written by Katherine Krohn and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Jackson's journey to fame began in 1966 at age eight, when he started singing with his brothers in the Jackson 5. In the early 1970s, he launched a solo career, accumulating a dozen number-one singles. His record-breaking album, Thriller, has sold an estimated 110 million copies worldwide. He won seventeen Grammy awards and was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. In 2009, people of all ages mourned Michael's sudden death. Adored for his music, dancing, and performing—and known for his highly publicized personal life—Michael Jackson remains the ultimate music legend.
Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375711163
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book de Kooning written by Mark Stevens and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitizer Prize and National Book Critics Award Circle Award. An authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master. Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s. The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York school—just as American art began to dominate the international scene. Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figure—and his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank O’Hara. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimer’s, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
Author : Jon Meacham
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812973461
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Lion written by Jon Meacham and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson’s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama–the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers– that shaped Jackson’s private world through years of storm and victory. One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will– or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House–from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman–have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision. Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe–no matter what it took.
Author : Shawn Henning
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449030157
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson written by Shawn Henning and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As fans of entertainers our voice is often overlooked. We are passed off as simple fans who really don't know to much. The media, with all their experts, reports, opinions, and speculations are often times not the truth. For the first time the fans of Michael Jackson will speak out. False reports and rumors are exposed in this book and the Author provides in indepth look at the media theories and speculations. The fans finally have a book that expresses what they know to be the truth about The Icon of Music Michael Jackson. The Author takes you through Michael Jackson life from the viewpoint of a fan. Backed by intense research and interview from noted film-maker and defense witness for Michael Jackson Larry Nimmer who also wrote this about the book. "You've done excellent research and there were some things that I learned that I didn't know. It was interesting what you had to say about the accusers and about his dad, Joe Jackson. I liked your comparison that Americans will sleep with animals in their bed but they are not accused of bestailiaty... good comparison... You've presented a convincing story about people who fabricated stories for personal gain, including the media, at the expense of Michael Jackson... great job and very interesting." Larry Nimmer
Author : Dr Harriet J Manning
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472402367
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask written by Dr Harriet J Manning and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy’s gestures and tropes are embedded. During the nineteenth century, blackface minstrelsy held together a multitude of meanings and when black entertainers took to the stage this complexity was compounded: minstrelsy became an arena in which black stereotypes were at once enforced and critiqued. This body of contradiction behind the blackface mask provides an effective approach to try and understand Jackson, a cultural figure about whom more questions than answers have been generated. Symbolized by his own whiteface mask, Jackson was at once ‘raced’ and raceless and this ambiguity allowed him to serve a whole host of others’ needs - a function of the mask that has run long and deep through its tortuous history. Indeed, Manning argues that minstrelsy’s assumptions and uses have been fundamental to the troubles and controversies with which Jackson was beset.
