UNFINISHED BUSINESS P: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization - Softcover

HAMERA, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199348596 ISBN 13: 9780199348596

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2017

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Críticas:

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)

This book is an insightful analysis of deindustrialization with a Detroit perspective ... Recommended. Graduate students through faculty. (Choice)

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0199348596
• ISBN 13: 9780199348596
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304