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OH I WOULD SO LOVE TO TAKE THIS COURSE!!!!!!Originally Posted by MJsPYT777
Michael Jackson & The Black Performance Tradition
Department of African & African American Studies
Duke University
AAAS 334-01
Fall 2012
Tuesday 6:15 pm – 8:45 pm
White Lecture Hall, 107
Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D.
Course Description
The central premise ‘Michael Jackson and the Performance of Blackness’ is the question, “Where did Michael Jackson come from?” While there are facts—he was born on August 29, 1958 in a Rust Belt city named Gary, Indiana—what the course aims to answer are the broader questions of Jackson’s cultural, social, political and even philosophical origins. The course will specifically examine the Black Performance context(s) that produced Jackson’s singular creative genius within the realms of music, movement and politics, including the influence of Black vernacular practices like signifying and sampling, the network of Black social spaces known as the Chitlin’ Circuit, the impact of Black migration patterns to urban spaces in the Midwest (like Gary, Chicago and Detroit—all critical to Jackson’s artistic development) and Black performance traditions including Blackface minstrelsy. In addition the course will examine the social constructions of Blackness and gender (Black masculinity) through the prism of Michael Jackson’s performance, highlighting his role as a trickster figure with the context of African-American vernacular practices.
The syllabus can be viewed here:
http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2012...son-black.html
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