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KEEP MOVING: THE MICHAEL JACKSON CHRONICLES - Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Table Of Contents


Introduction: MOVING FORWARD


Chapter 1: Janet, The Last Black Jackson

Billie Jean music video

Beat It music video

Thriller music video


Chapter 2: Understanding Michael Jackson

Bad music video

Bad album


Chapter 3: The Gloved One Is Not A Chump

Black or White music video


Chapter 4: Sibling Song

Word to the Badd!! single


Chapter 5: “How Deep Is Your Afrocentricity?”Ask Michael & Iman

Remember The Time music video


Chapter 6: Michael Takes a Bow for Jam

In the Closet music video

Jam music video


Chapter 7: Father Figure

The Jacksons: An American Legend TV movie


Chapter 8: Videos Change the Style of “Black Film”


Chapter 9: Jackson’s TV Ad Makes Rhetorical History

HIStory teaser promo


Chapter 10: Screaming To Be Heard, Book I

HIStory album

Scream music video


Chapter 11: Screaming To Be Heard, Book II

HIStory album


Chapter 12: Montell and Michael Exploit/Explore Happy-Negro Fallacy

This Is How We Do It single


Chapter 13: Earth Song Moves Music Video Mountains

Earth Song music video


Chapter 14: Jackson and Jam-Lewis Hope Louder in New Remix

You Are Not Alone music video

You Are Not Alone/Scream Louder Remix single


Chapter 15: Lists & Prizes in the Arts for 1995

City Sun Year’s Best Excerpt


Chapter 16: Hear, My Dears

Blood on the Dance Floor album


Chapter 17: Remembering “Ben”

Willard film


Chapter 18: Song of the Day: Man in the Mirror


Chapter 19: Jackson Pop: Music Video Artists and Hollywood Influence


Chapter 20: In MJ’s Shadow


Chapter 21: Twenty-First Century Renaissance


Bibliography


Index

1 comment:

  1. We are millions.
    And we will not be silent.
    Not this time.



    Something beyond vicious was done to Michael Jackson, and everyone knows it. Even now after his death, the same people who went after him for no greater reason than personal ambition, seek to justify their persecution by painting him as a cheap drug addict. Yes, Michael was taking an extreme drug at the end. The effect of such a drug however, is not to heighten consciousness - but to obviate it.


    But what got him there? What made a young man known for his abstention - to the extent that he didn’t even drink pepsi, end his days in a made-to-measure trauma room? Does anyone care that a little boy from Gary, Indiana who grew up in front of the world's lens, worked for every cent he ever made by dint of his own blood, sweat and tears, dazzled millions of people with his craft and passion; was so ill-served and abused by first - his father, then the American criminal justice system and a collusive media, that oblivion was his best case scenario every night.


    Life has a way of moving you on, even from the most painful of things. But I know I will carry the summer of 2009 inside me forever. Actually I want to carry it, I am honoured to carry it. As a reminder of what we have lost collectively and what I personally will never forget. I am not ashamed to be heartbroken. Show me someone who can remain unmoved in the face of the epic trajectory of this unfeasibly talented human being, the seemingly ambivalent legacy of that which he leaves behind, the sheer magnitude of what Michael Joseph Jackson achieved here - and I will show you a stone.


    For this is legend. We have witnessed legend. Other generations had theirs.
    This is ours.


    And I will show respect.

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