Nobody Knows My Name: The Masquerade of Mourning in the Early 1980s Artistic Productions of Michael Jackson and Prince
The article analyses Michael Jackson’s album Thriller and Prince’s movie Purple Rain. We explore their camp aesthetics and their recasting of the cultural representations of the black male. Jackson’s and Prince’s performative personas are both liberatory and burdened with the received cultural scrip...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Open Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/culture.2017.1.issue-1/culture-2017-0058/culture-2017-0058.xml?format=INT |