Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization...

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Judith Hamera (Professor of Dance, Professor of Dance, Princeton University)

Unfinished Business

Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization

Judith Hamera (Professor of Dance, Professor of Dance, Princeton University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
02 January 2018

Dance; Theory of music & musicology; Cultural studies; Black & Asian studies; Economics

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 about 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 a structure 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.

By: Judith Hamera (Professor of Dance Professor of Dance Princeton University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 433g
ISBN: 9780199348596
ISBN 10: 0199348596
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 02 January 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Judith Hamera is Professor of Dance in the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts, with affiliations in American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Urban Studies, Princeton University. She is the author of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City (2007).

Reviews for Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization

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

Winner of Joint Winner of the 2020 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research Winner of the Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research.
Winner of Winner of the Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research.