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Unfinished Business
Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
Genres:
Non-Western music: traditional & classical,
Black & Asian studies,
Social & cultural anthropology,
Dance,
Theory of music & musicology,
20th century & contemporary classical music,
Easy listening, MOR music,
Literary studies: general,
Cultural studies,
Media studies,
Economics
Synopsis
How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? Who represents hope? Who are the cautionary tales? Unfinished Business argues that U.S. deindustrialization cannot be understood apart from issues of race, and specifically apart from images of, and works by and about African Americans that represent or resist normative or aberrant relationships to work and capital in transitional times. It insists that Michael Jackson's
performances and coverage of his life, plays featuring Detroit, plans for the city's postindustrial revitalization, and Detroit installations The Heidelberg Project and Mobile Homestead have something valuable to teach us about 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 deindustrialization, how it operates as structures of feeling and as representations as well as a shift 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.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization, is an absorbing and multi-faceted work... * Laura Robinson, Dance Research Journal * This book is an essential read for scholars, economists, and performance makers. Its ability to contextualize economic patterns through the lens of performance studies underscores the significance of intersectional studies. In doing so, it reminds readers of the complex economic systems at play and the unfinished business that has yet to be done when "enough" is just an illusion. * Leilia Mire, Thinking Dance * A profoundly necessary and absorbing book. * Text and Performance Quarterly * Indeed, Unfinished Business is an urgent read for scholars already steeped in literature concerning performance and political economy, as well as for those who might be newly alerted to the work that remains to be done. * Patrick McKelvey, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre *