| Title | : | The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (Zero Books) |
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1846943485 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-12-16 |
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The essays in The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson consummately demonstrate that writing on popular culture can be both thoughtful and heartfelt. The contributors, who include accomplished music critics as well as renowned theorists, are some of the most astute and eloquent writers on pop today. The collection is made up of new essays written in the wake of Jackson's death, and includes Barney Hoskyns' classic NME piece written at the time of Thriller, and contributions from Ian Penman, David Stubbs, Paul Lester, and Chris Roberts.
Editorial : Fresh, allegation-free perspectives on Jackson's life provided one of the year's best books: The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson is a collection of essays edited by Mark Fisher, who reckons "only Elvis managed to insinuate himself into practically every living being's body and dreams to the same degree that Jackson did." Tom Ewing posits that much of the singer's later work "sounds like multiple drafts of the same song, a crushed and frightened attempt by a desperate man to get the pain out". With no jokes about Bubbles, and only sadness that he ended up with a "permanent Pierrot-grimace sneer", this is a fine attempt to reclaim Jackson's reputation from the tabloids. --Bob Stanley
Fresh, allegation-free perspectives on Jackson's life provided one of the year's best books: The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson is a collection of essays edited by Mark Fisher, who reckons "only Elvis managed to insinuate himself into practically every living being's body and dreams to
I am an adult learner and have found as I progressed from really basic music to this book along with companion green book. Don't even read it for free (thankfully I didn't waste my money on it). Everything you need to know about vitamin e is in this book.. He writes with immense wisdom in the language of one who knows what it's like. I wasn't impressed with the experiments and lab exercises presented in the book though; the author could have done a better job of presenting those. While the book is about Starr one could wonder if Vince Lombardi plays the second lead role in parts of the book but then it is also hard to tell a story about the Packers in the 1960s without giving much room to Lombardi who took the worst team in the NFL to become perhaps the best team of any NFL era with Starr as the general on the field.
Starr may be very underrated but the author would sometimes have you believe that Starr is the best there ever was. Later visions of Johnson have seen him as re
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