Unfinished Business

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-934858-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamera

Hamera, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Andere zeitgenössische Musikrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction: "Never Can Say Goodbye": U.S. Deindustrialization as Unfinished Business

- Part I: Michael Jackson's Spectacular Deindustriality

- Chapter One The Labors of Michael Jackson: Transitional Deindustriality, Dance, and Virtuous(o) Work

- Chapter Two Consuming Passions, Wasted Efforts: Michael Jackson's Financial(-ized) Melodramas

- Part II: Detroit's Deindustrial Homeplaces

- Chapter Three Combustible Hopes on the National State: Figuring Race, Work, and Home in "not necessarily") Detroit

- Chapter Four Up From the Ashes: Art in Detroit's Emerging Phoenix Narrative

- Coda Still Unfinished.

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Hamera is Professor of Dance in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University and author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007).