The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson
Peter Rosser
The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, Edited by Mark Fisher, Zero Books, Hampshire, England
Reading The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, it’s difficult not to marvel at the thrilling sense of perceptual and temporal derangement its subject causes in all those who look too closely. Whatever the levels of greatness Michael Jackson may have displayed as musician, dancer, and songwriter (and many of the twenty-four essayists presented here want to put Jackson down a peg or two in this respect) his prescience was never in doubt. Jackson is the personification of the late 1960s cult of youth, the embodiment of 1970s disco-superficiality, the agent of the globalisation of cultural exchange in the 1980s and...
