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| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Introduction to Lisa Marie Presley Gilad James, PhD, Lisa Marie Presley is a prominent American singer-songwriter and actress, who is also well-known for being the only child of the legendary music mogul and performer Elvis Presley. Born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, she gained recognition in the music industry for her soulful voice and unique blend of country, blues and rockabilly sound. Lisa Marie began her career in the entertainment industry in the early 1990s, when she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records and released her debut album To Whom It May Concern. The album received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, reaching the top ten on the US Billboard 200 chart. In addition to her music career, Lisa Marie has also appeared in various films and television shows throughout her career. She made her acting debut in the film Love Me Tender in 1991, and has since appeared in popular movies and TV series such as The Simpsons, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Madame Tussauds. She has also been involved in numerous philanthropic activities, and has supported organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Dream Foundation, and the World Wildlife Fund. Today, Lisa Marie Presley continues to be a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, and remains an inspiration to many aspiring musicians and artists. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Untouchable Randall Sullivan, 2012-11-06 The investigative biography of Michael Jackson’s final years: “A tale of family, fame, lost childhood, and startling accusations never heard before” (ABC Nightline). When Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, millions of fans around the world were shocked. But the outpouring of emotion that followed his loss was bittersweet. Dogged by scandal for years and undone by financial mismanagement, Jackson had become untouchable in many quarters. Untouchable pulls back the curtain Jackson’s public person to introduce a man who, despite his immense fame, spent his entire life utterly alone; who, in the wake of a criminal trial that left him briefly hospitalized, abandoned Neverland to wander the globe before making one final—and fatal—attempt to recover his wealth and reputation. The Jackson that emerges in these pages is both naïve and cunning, a devoted father whose parenting became an international scandal, a shrewd businessman whose failures nearly brought down a megacorporation, and an inveterate narcissist who craved a quiet, normal life. Randall Sullivan delivers never-before-reported information about Jackson’s business dealings, his relationship with his family, and the pedophilia allegations that derailed his life and mar his legacy today, as well as the suspicious nature of his death. Based on exclusive access to Jackson’s inner circle, Untouchable is an intimate, unflinching portrait of the man who continues to reign as the King of Pop. “A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again.” —People |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson Steve Knopper, 2015-10-06 A veteran music reporter offers a sweeping and vivid portrait of the King of Pop, from his first on-stage appearance at a local talent show in 1965, to his record-breaking album sales, Grammy awards, dance moves and years of scandal and controversy. --Publisher's description. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Millennial and the King Miriam Schwellnus, 2025-03-17 Would you rather believe a comfortable lie or the messy truth? The Millennial and the King is a sharp, self-aware, and darkly funny reckoning with the power of narratives—how they protect the powerful, pacify the public, and shape our personal lives in ways we rarely admit. Told through the eyes of a fan-turned-legacy detective, this book unravels the most successful public relations campaign in pop culture history: the mythmaking of Michael Jackson. From the highs of Thriller to the lows of courtroom scandal, from teenage adoration to adult criticism, the author takes one last ride through the King of Pop’s carefully curated kingdom in search of the truth. Part media autopsy, part midlife reckoning, part PR masterclass, this genre-blurring literary collage explores our hunger for stories—even when they serve someone else’s agenda. The Millennial and the King zigzags between personal essay, cultural analysis, and anecdotal memoir, parodying ‘90s movies, YouTube shows, and the absurdity of fandom. Using AI while it’s still cute, the two protagonists even meet for an interview that transcends time, reality, and probably ethics. For anyone who’s ever gone to battle for their hero only to find themselves on the wrong side of history, The Millennial and the King is a reminder that some stories are designed to entertain—and others are designed to control. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Death and the Rock Star Catherine Strong, Barbara Lebrun, 2016-03-03 The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle, it has left many casualties in its wake, and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time, so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely, as many artists who fronted the rock’n’roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s continue to age, the idea of dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse (which gave rise, for instance, to the myth of the ’27 Club’) no longer carries the same resonance that it once might have done. This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars, ’rock’ being taken in the widest sense as the artists discussed belong to the genres of rock’n’roll (Elvis Presley), disco (Donna Summer), pop and pop-rock (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse), punk and post-punk (GG Allin, Ian Curtis), rap (Tupac Shakur), folk (the Dutchman André Hazes) and ’world’ music (Fela Kuti). When music artists die, their fellow musicians, producers, fans and the media react differently, and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales, copyrights, and print media is considered, and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead, through covers, sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries, biographies and biopics, observing that posthumous fame provides coping mechanisms for fans, and consumers of popular culture more generally, to deal with the knowledge of their own mortality. Examining the contrasting ways in which male and female dead singers are portrayed in the media, the book |
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| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: From Crime Scene to Courtroom Cyril H. Wecht, M.D. J.D., Dawna Kaufmann, 2011-10-18 From crime scene to morgue to courtroom, and finally the court of public opinion, this riveting narrative is essential reading for true-crime enthusiasts. If you think the media has told you everything there is to know about Michael Jackson and Casey Anthony, think again! This engrossing, almost cinematic page-turner, offers never-before-published information on the mysterious deaths of Michael Jackson and Caylee Anthony, plus five other ripped-from-the-headlines criminal cases. Based on the authors' long investigative experience, these two insiders offer revealing insights into the following high-profile cases: -Casey Anthony: An assessment of the Trial of this Century, during which a Florida mother stood accused of killing her young daughter, Caylee. At stake were issues that included accuracy of air sampling and cadaver dogs, post-mortem hair banding, chloroform, duct tape identification, computer clues, and deep family secrets. -Michael Jackson: The authors provide never-disclosed data on the autopsies of Jackson’s body and a microscopic view of the singer’s life and career, plus analysis of the cardiologist charged with his death: Was Dr. Conrad Murphy recklessly negligent or a fall guy for a hopelessly addicted celebrity? -Drew Peterson: Heroic Illinois SWAT team cop or wife killer? Did his third wife slip and fall in the bathtub, or was she beaten and drowned? The controversy over her death led to an exhumation and the filing of homicide charges against him, but can prosecutors prove their case? And what happened to his fourth wife, who remains missing? -Rolling Stone Brian Jones: Was the rock musician’s death an accident or something more sinister? And was he impaired by drugs or alcohol when he died? After more than forty years, there is finally an answer. In addition, the authors examine the tragic death of twelve-year-old Gabrielle Bechen, whose rape-murder changed her community; Col. Philip Shue, whose demise was a battle of suicide versus homicide until Dr. Wecht solved the case; and Carol Ann Gotbaum, a respected Manhattan mother who died in police custody in Phoenix. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Oprah Kathryn Lofton, 2011-03-02 Oprah Winfrey is a media messiah for a secular age. This book is an examination of the religious dimensions of Oprah Winfrey's empire, deploying the idiom of US religious history and metrics of religious studies to assess Winfrey's success on the national and international scene. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Elizabeth and Michael Donald Bogle, 2017-06-06 A dual biography of entertainment legends Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson that explores their individual careers and personal lives leading up to and including their 25-year friendship. |
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| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Child Bride Suzanne Finstad, 2006-01-03 The myth-shattering account of the most famous—and most taboo—marriage in rock-and-roll history “Fascinating . . . Finstad’s research and her analysis of Priscilla’s complex character make for a riveting read.”—New York Post The real story [of Elvis and Priscilla] is infinitely more powerful than the myth and, ultimately, tragic; the true Priscilla more complex. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is not, and never was, the fragile, demure child-woman she has come to personify; she is, in a word, a survivor, a woman of indomitable will and almost frightening determination.—from the Author’s Note Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley’s affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before marrying her to fulfill a promise to her starstruck parents. But who is Priscilla—and what was her role in their infamous relationship? Award-winning biographer Suzanne Finstad perceptively pieces together the clues from candid interviews with all the Presley intimates—including Priscilla herself, along with hundreds of sources who have never before spoken publicly—to uncover the truth behind the legend of Elvis and Priscilla, a tumultuous tale of sexual attraction and obsession, heartbreak and loss. Child Bride, the definitive biography of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, unveils the controversial woman who evolved from a lonely teenager bound to the King of Rock and Roll into a shrewd businesswoman in control of the multimillion-dollar Elvis Presley empire—a rags-to-riches saga of secrets, lies, and betrayal. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin, 2011-05-27 This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Michael Jackson, Inc. Zack O'Malley Greenburg, 2014-06-03 The surprising rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story of how Michael Jackson grew a billion-dollar business. Michael Jackson is known by many as the greatest entertainer of all time, but he was also a revolutionary when it came to business. In addition to famously buying the Beatles’ publishing catalogue, Jackson was one of the first pop stars to launch his own clothing line, record label, sneakers, and video games—creating a fundamental shift in the monetization of fame and paving the way for entertainer-entrepreneurs like Jay Z and Diddy. All told, Jackson earned more than $1.1 billion in his solo career, and the assets he built in life have earned more than $700 million in the five years since his death—more than any other solo music act over that time. Michael Jackson, Inc. reveals the incredible rise, fall, and rise again of Michael Jackson’s fortune—driven by the unmatched perfectionism of the King of Pop. Forbes senior editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg uncovers never-before-told stories from interviews with more than 100 people, including music industry veterans Berry Gordy, John Branca, and Walter Yetnikoff; artists 50 Cent, Sheryl Crow, and Jon Bon Jovi; and members of the Jackson family. Other insights come from court documents and Jackson’s private notes, some of them previously unpublished. Through Greenburg’s novelistic telling, a clear picture emerges of Jackson’s early years, his rise to international superstardom, his decline—fueled by demons internal and external, as well as the dissolution of the team that helped him execute his best business moves—and, finally, his financial life after death. Underlying Jackson’s unique history is the complex but universal tale of the effects of wealth and fame on the human psyche. A valuable case study for generations of entertainers to come and for anyone interested in show business, Michael Jackson, Inc. tells the story of a man whose financial feats, once obscured by his late-life travails, have become an enduring legacy. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Way We Are Deborah Norville, Charlie Carillo, 2013-10-22 Norville and Carillo pull the curtain back on twenty-five years of Inside Edition, revealing a combination of stories that touch your heart, put you on the edge of your seat, and leave viewers convinced that the show make that up. A sometimes side-splitting, occasionally heart-stopping, but always entertaining journey down memory lane. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Elvis Book Elvis Presley, 2001-10 (Easy Guitar). 100 songs from The King's career, all arranged for easy guitar without tab. Includes: All Shook Up * An American Trilogy * Are You Lonesome Tonight? * Blue Hawaii * Blue Suede Shoes * Burning Love * Can't Help Falling in Love * Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True) * G.I. Blues * Good Luck Charm * Heartbreak Hotel * Hound Dog * It's Now or Never * Jailhouse Rock * Love Me Tender * Memories * Return to Sender * (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear * Treat Me Nice * Viva Las Vegas * and more. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Freakery Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 1996-10 A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal. Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Man in the Music Joseph Vogel, 2019-08-27 For half a century, Michael Jackson’s music has been an indelible part of our cultural consciousness. Landmark albums such as Off the Wall and Thriller shattered records, broke racial barriers, amassed awards, and set a new standard for popular music. While his songs continue to be played in nearly every corner of the world, however, they have rarely been given serious critical attention. The first book dedicated solely to exploring his creative work, Man in the Music guides us through an unparalleled analysis of Jackson’s recordings, album by album, from his trailblazing work with Quincy Jones to his later collaborations with Teddy Riley, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Rodney Jerkins. Drawing on rare archival material and on dozens of original interviews with the collaborators, engineers, producers, and songwriters who helped bring the artist’s music into the world, Jackson expert and acclaimed cultural critic Joseph Vogel reveals the inspirations, demos, studio sessions, technological advances, setbacks and breakthroughs, failures and triumphs, that gave rise to an immortal body of work. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Michael Jackson Jos Borsboom, 2011-03-15 The King of Pop was without any doubt the world's biggest entertainer of all time. Michael Jackson's tragic death shocked the world for weeks. He was planning the biggest concert tour the world had ever seen. Michael tried to hide his addiction to painkillers for years. A doctor, who visited his trashed hotel suite in The Mirage in Las Vegas said: It is Elvis all over again. The pop star died of an overdose on June 25, 2009 while preparing for his comeback tour. The ultimate story about Michael Jackson's life, his work as a humanitarian, his awards, his music, his problems with fame, and finally his last days. The whole story about the biggest legend ever. BIOGRAPHY and MEMOIR, Music (20th Century), Celebrities, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Humanitarian, Biographies, Memoirs, Musician, Pop, Thriller, Aid, Addiction, Videos, Albums, Fanclub, Legend, Icon, Memorial, Funeral. Please visit Michael-Jackson.mobi for more information. Author: Jos Borsboom ISBN 9781447516927 Pages 400 |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Campaign Strategies and Message Design Mary Moffitt, 1999-01-30 Presents the theory, planning and execution of a public communication campaign from start to finish. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Blueprints of Sir Michael J. Moffett Walker, 2010-05-21 London, England, welcomes a thirteen-Grammy winner and the “King of Pop.” Michael Joseph Jackson chooses the 02 Arena for fifty performances in July 2009, with ticket sales reaching 1.5 million dollars within a few weeks. Worldwide fans are waiting to get a glimpse of this talented and sometimes controversial singer, dancer, producer, and actor. Jackson, often called the most powerful performer in the universe, secures music brilliance through the sales of 104 million copies of Thriller. How did he create a style allowing the world to see him, thus generating over a billion dollars for the recording industry? He is shy, but can be demanding at times. He is accepting and warm. He is candid in interviews, perhaps too frank. He believes in sharing, yet relationships have been a challenge for him. The question remains: who is this native of Gary, Indiana—this African American male, rich with talents? J. Moffett Walker believes you and others want to know about Michael the individual and how he moonwalked all the way to the top. Blueprints of Sir Michael, a resourceful yet creative book, provides new information about this world superstar. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: African American Musical Heritage Lenard C. Bowie, 2012-01-30 LENARD C. BOWIE, DMA ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, RETIRED THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE , FLORIDA Dr. Lenard C. Bowie has developed an enviable reputation as a consummate musician. He is a classical trumpet artist, accomplished band director, effective music administrator, skilled lecturer and publi shed author. As an author, Bowie's expertise in several fields of endeavor has been documented through the following subjects, as published in the professional music journals indicated: Solving Problems of Young Trumpet Players, published in the Music Educators National Journal (December, J979) , a critical review of Black University Marching Bands in the 80's. published by The Marching Band (January, 198 1), and the Proceedings of an Informal Research Conference whose mission was to document the extent to which African American music courses were offered in Florida's Public Schools was published by the Florida Music Educator (June, 2002). As an undergraduate, Bowie was plagued bymany questions concerning the absence of formal instruction in the music of his people, especially when considering the fact that there were only two authentic types of American music -- that of the American Indians and that of African Americans, with African American Music being the most important of the two. Bowie's search for answers to his probing questions began when he enrolled in Professor Willie Ruffs course in Black Music as a graduate student at Yale University in 1974. This course opened Bowie's eyes, ears and mind to many of his here-to-fore unanswered questions; including the extent to which African music traditions are practiced in African American Music today, and the impact that African American Music has made on the social, political, economic, and religious climates of modern American Society. After graduating from Yale with a Master of Musical Arts Degree in 1976, Bowie struck out on a mission to enlarge on what he had learned about African American Music.This mission brought him in contact with a wealth of information through independent study of numerous publications and documentaries; lectures, festivals, concerts; and personal contacts with scholars who were, or have become, major players in the research, dissemination, performance and composition of African American Music. Some of these scholars include former colleagues Dr.Oily W. Wilson, composer and Chair of Composition at UCLA , Berkeley, Samuel Floyd, Founder and Director of the Center for Black Music Research, found at Fisk University, now housed at ColumbiaCollege,Chicago,Dr. AaronHorne,AfricanAmericanMusic Biographer and Dean of Fine Arts, Winston Salem Unive rsity, North Caro lina, Aramentha Adams - Hummings, Founder and Director ofthe Gateways Music Festival , initiated at the North Carolina School of the Arts, now housed at the East man School of Music in Rochester,New York, Operatic Tenor and Music Educator, the late Dr. William A, Brown. Others include Dr. Portia Maultsby, Professor of Music at Indiana University, Dr. Dena Epstein, Retired Music Librarian, Archival Researcher and Author, Chicago, Dr. Rene Boyer-White, Professor of Music Education, College-Conservatory of Music, The University of Cincinnati, and Dr. John Smith, Dean of Fine Arts, The Univers ity of South Florida at Tampa. During the first of Dr. Bowie's two terms as Music Department Chair at The University of North Florida, he was afforded an opportunity to apply and distribute his long sought know ledge. The opportunity came in the form ofa Mill ion Dollar Endowment from the Koger Company to develop programs of study in American Music. The response of the faculty to the endowmentwas to institute two programs: a Jazz Studies Program and a program in African American Music. The Jazz Studies Program has become nationally recognized for outstanding achievements in jazz theory, history and performance. The latter program , designed and developed by Bowie, was chall |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Most Beautiful Woman in the World Ellis Amburn, 2000 An expose of Elizabeth Taylor's private life covers her brain surgery, her successful fragrance line, her recovery from a near nervous breakdown, and her relationships with her husbands and other men. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Intocável Randall Sullivan, 2013-11-26 Tendo como ponto de partida os dias finais do Rei do Pop no rancho Neverland, Intocável conduz o leitor pelos quatro últimos anos de Michael Jackson, conforme ele viajava o mundo - da Califórnia para o Oriente Médio, depois Irlanda, Ásia, Costa Leste e Las Vegas -, na tentativa recuperar sua fortuna e reputação com um novo disco e uma série de cinquenta megashows, para os quais ele ensaiou até um dia antes de sua morte. Sullivan também investiga o passado de Jackson, revelando um homem tão ingênuo quanto astuto, um pai dedicado cujas atitudes com os filhos geraram polêmicas mundiais, um empresário ardiloso que atingiu o auge muito cedo para depois quase derrubar uma megacorporação, um narcisista inveterado que, mais do que tudo, desejava uma vida tranquila, solitária e normal. Do estrelato precoce com o Jackson 5 à derradeira queda, passando pela difícil relação com a família e os muitos escândalos públicos que marcaram sua carreira, Intocável jamais deixa de lado o gênio artístico de Jackson, seu pioneirismo musical e tecnológico e os incríveis passos de dança que marcaram e seguem marcando gerações. Valendo-se de dados inéditos sobre a vida financeira de Jackson, bem como sobre as acusações de pedofilia que manchariam irremediavelmente sua carreira, além de acesso exclusivo a figuras do círculo íntimo do cantor, o autor traça o mais completo (e complexo) retrato de Michael Jackson, um homem de inúmeras contradições que segue, a despeito de tudo, no seu trono de Rei do Pop. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: PASSED AWAY JONATHAN SUAREZ, 2010-02 THE MICHAEL JACKSON IS PASSING AWAY BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANTS THEM TO BE ALIVE THE WAY HE WAS ASKING HIM ABOUT ON HIS SON AND DAUGHTER AND IN HIS ALL THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN THEIR NEIGHBOR AND ALSO ON HIS PAST... |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Introduction to Priscilla Presley Gilad James, PhD, Priscilla Presley is an American actress, businesswoman, and widow of rock and roll legend Elvis Presley. Born on May 24, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in various cities due to her father's job as an Air Force officer. At the age of 14, she met Elvis Presley while living in Germany and became romantically involved with him when he was 24. They married in 1967 and welcomed their daughter Lisa Marie Presley the following year. Priscilla was known for her effortless beauty, and her fashion choices paved the way for many women during the 1960s and 70s. After Elvis's death in 1977, she dedicated herself to preserving his legacy and managed his estate for many years. In addition to her work with Elvis's estate, Priscilla has had an accomplished acting career. She appeared in numerous films and television shows, including The Naked Gun series, Dallas, and Melrose Place. She also starred in her own reality series, Priscilla's American Dreams, which followed her as she mentored young performers. Priscilla is an advocate for various causes, including animal rights and child welfare, and has received numerous awards for her philanthropic efforts. She remains an icon of the entertainment industry and a beloved figure in Elvis Presley's legacy. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask Harriet J. Manning, 2023-06-16 Michael Jackson challenged the power structure of the American music industry and struck at the heart of blackface minstrelsy, America’s first form of mass entertainment. The response was a derisive caricature that over time Jackson subverted through his art. In this expanded, all-new edition, Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask argues for the tangible relationship between Jackson and blackface minstrelsy. It reveals the dialogue at minstrelsy’s core and, in its broader sense, tracks a centuries-long pattern of racial oppression and its resistance and how that has been played out in popular theatre. Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask explores Jackson’s early talent and fame and the birth and escalation of ‘Wacko Jacko’. In relation to all this, the book examines Jackson’s dynamic art as it evolved, from his live performances and short films to the very surface of his own body. Scholarly and interdisciplinary, this work is suitable for readers across a diverse spectrum of academic fields, including African American studies, popular music studies and cultural theory, media and communication, gender studies and performance and theatre studies. Academic but accessible, this book will also be an engaging read for anyone interested in Michael Jackson and especially in his role as an icon of difference, in America’s dynamics of race and his mass media image. |
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| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Moonwalk Michael Jackson, 2010-04-13 The only book Michael Jackson ever wrote about his life It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. Giving unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life, it details his songwriting process for hits like Beat It, Rock With You, Billie Jean, and We Are the World; describes how he developed his signature dance style, including the Moon Walk; and opens the door to his very private personal relationships with his family, including sister Janet, and stars like Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Marlon Brando, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, and Brooke Shields. At the time of its original publication in 1988, MOONWALK broke the fiercely guarded barrier of silence that surrounded Michael Jackson. Candidly and courageously, Jackson talks openly about his wholly exceptional career and the crushing isolation of his fame. MOONWALK is illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and Michael's personal photographic archives, as well as a drawing done by Michael exclusively for the book. It reveals and celebrates, as no other book can, the life of this exceptional and beloved musician. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Dictionary of Teleliteracy David Bianculli, 1996 From I Love Lucy to the O. J. Simpson Trial, the 500 programs whose impact on American culture, good or ill, will not likely be forgotten. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Never Can Say Goodbye , 2010-06-26 Chronicles the life and career of Michael Jackson from his years with the Jackson 5 to his rise as a global superstar, as told by his mother. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The African American Encyclopedia , 1993 Deals extensively with the African American experience in the United States from the very beginning up to the present day with an in-depth examination of the history and contributions of a people who want to be recognized. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask Dr Harriet J Manning, 2013-08-31 Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy’s gestures and tropes are embedded. During the nineteenth century, blackface minstrelsy held together a multitude of meanings and when black entertainers took to the stage this complexity was compounded: minstrelsy became an arena in which black stereotypes were at once enforced and critiqued. This body of contradiction behind the blackface mask provides an effective approach to try and understand Jackson, a cultural figure about whom more questions than answers have been generated. Symbolized by his own whiteface mask, Jackson was at once ‘raced’ and raceless and this ambiguity allowed him to serve a whole host of others’ needs - a function of the mask that has run long and deep through its tortuous history. Indeed, Manning argues that minstrelsy’s assumptions and uses have been fundamental to the troubles and controversies with which Jackson was beset. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor Mark DePaolis, 1995 A refreshing breeze blows through the field of medicine. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: My Friend Michael Frank Cascio, 2011-11-15 Everyone knows Michael Jackson—the myth. This is the revealing true story of Michael Jackson—the man. To Frank Cascio, Michael Jackson was many things—second father, big brother, boss, mentor, and teacher, but most of all he was a friend. Though Cascio was just a few years old when he first met Jackson in 1984, at the peak of the pop star’s career, Jackson was at the center of his life for the next twenty-five years, allowing Cascio to observe firsthand the greatest entertainer the world had ever seen. In that time, he became the ultimate Michael Jackson insider, yet remained publicly silent about his experiences. Until now. In My Friend Michael, Cascio refutes the rumors, lies, and accusations that have accumulated over the years, providing a candid look at the Michael Jackson he knew for more than two decades. Offering an uplifting and definitive account of the legend, Cascio details how he grew up alongside Jackson, traveling the world with him on concert tours and eventually working for him. Through this lens, Cascio captures Jackson’s most private and tumultuous moments, while also setting the record straight on the entertainer’s notorious and misunderstood lifestyle—from his Peter Pan reality and his sexuality to the false allegations against him. As Cascio shows, there was a great deal more to Michael Jackson than the headlines about him have suggested. Cascio reveals his friend in all his complexity, bringing to light his passions and joys as well as his flaws and eccentricities. Including stories about Jackson that have never before been made public, Cascio creates a balanced, human look at the pop star, one that shows Jackson as the very real person he was—a lively friend with an endearingly juvenile sense of humor. What emerges is a clear-eyed yet deeply respectful portrait of Jackson—a man who was at times unremarkably average but also terribly scarred by his life in the spotlight. Packed with never-before-seen photos, anecdotes, and insights, My Friend Michael is a trove of Michael Jackson lore that both celebrates his life and redefines our understanding of the man behind the myth. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The African American Encyclopedia R. Kent Rasmussen, 2001 |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music Colin Larkin, 1997 Whatever you were doing and listening to during the eighties, THE VIRGIN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EIGHTIES MUSIC will bring it all back. All the facts and informed opinions on the artists who made that decade's musical history are contained in this single volume, distilled from THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POPULAR MUSIC, the world's leading reference on rock and pop history. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest Steve M. Barkin, 2016-09-16 This concise history of the news broadcasting industry will appeal to both students and general readers. Stretching from the radio days of the 1920s and 1930s and the early era of television after World War II through to the present, the book shows how commercial interests, regulatory matters, and financial considerations have long shaped the broadcasting business. The network dominance of the 1950s ushered in the new prominence of the anchorman, a distinctly American development, and gave birth to the golden age of TV broadcasting, which featured hard-hitting news and documentaries epitomized by the reports by CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Financial pressures and advertising concerns in the 1960s led the networks to veer away from their commitment to serve the public interest, and tabloid television - celebrity, gossip-driven soft news - and news magazines became increasingly widespread. In the 1980s cable news further transformed broadcasting, igniting intense competition for viewers in the media marketplace. Focusing on both national and local news, this stimulating volume examines the evolution of broadcast journalism. It also considers how new electronic technologies will affect news delivery in the 21st century, and whether television news can still both serve the public interest and maintain an audience. |
| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: Words to Make My Dream Children Live Deirdre Mullane, 1995 In 1918, Joseph Seaman Cotter, Jr., a promising young African-American poet who later died at the age of twenty-four, published a poem in which he prayed, O God, give me words to make my dream-children live! In this collection of some two thousand quotations, Deirdre Mullane has taken Cotter's prayer to heart and gathered the most memorable quotes from a wide range of sources--poetry, folk songs, political speeches, autobiographies, stories, novels, interviews, and essays--to illustrate the amazing richness of the African-American written and oral tradition. From the earliest tracts against slavery to the poetry of Maya Angelou, African-Americans have tumed to language to record their experience and to sustain their souls. Barred from education for centuries, they used the spoken word to hand down their daily wisdom, their faith in God, and dreams of freedom and justice, until the establishment and survival of their own press during the 1800s enabled them to document the horrors of slavery and discrimination, to name the political and social realities they faced, as well as to celebrate the everyday joys of their lives. An ideal companion to African-American history, this extensive and varied collection of quotes, from political figures to poets, from jazz greats to boxers, will be an important resource for writers, journalists, public speakers, and parents seeking an educational gift for their children. The entries are arranged alphabetically by speaker, along with a brief biography of each source. Also included is a subject index that allows a reader to research quotations on specific topics, such as freedom or dreams. Encyclopedic and inspirational,Words To Make My Dream Children Liverepresents the living legacy of the word, both spoken and written, for African-Americans everywhere. |
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| oprah winfrey interview with lisa marie presley: The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80s Music Colin Larkin, 2003 A complete handbook of information and opinion about the history of the most fragmented decade in the history of popular music. It contains 1000 entries on every band, musician, songwriter, producer and record label that had a significant impact on the development of rock and pop music in those ten years. |
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