Back from a hiatus… and welcome to all the new subscribers! Read #1. Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ a quiet manifesto of Black music reappropriation birthed from marginalization. Jackson felt that his work, despite the tremendous melodic, rhythmic, and production leaps it took, was being marginalized as just a Black album. Despite its success, “Off The Wall” was released on the other side of the growing shroud of the “disco sucks” rhetoric that was seeping with racist and homophobic overtones.
#SundayReads 14.04.24
#SundayReads 14.04.24
#SundayReads 14.04.24
Back from a hiatus… and welcome to all the new subscribers! Read #1. Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ a quiet manifesto of Black music reappropriation birthed from marginalization. Jackson felt that his work, despite the tremendous melodic, rhythmic, and production leaps it took, was being marginalized as just a Black album. Despite its success, “Off The Wall” was released on the other side of the growing shroud of the “disco sucks” rhetoric that was seeping with racist and homophobic overtones.