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3 episodes with Margo Jefferson
2 episodes with Margo Jefferson
2 episodes with Margo Jefferson
3 episodes with Margo Jefferson
2 episodes with Margo Jefferson
2 episodes with Margo Jefferson
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and the Reclamation of Their Groundbreaking History By: Karen ValbyThe forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now.At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company—the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She was the first Black ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine, an Essence cover star, cast in The Wiz and on Broadway with Bob Fosse. She performed in some of ballet's most iconic works with her closest friends—founding members of the company, the Swans of Harlem, Gayle McKinney, Sheila Rohan, Marcia Sells, and Karlya Shelton—for the Queen of England and Mick Jagger, with Josephine Baker, at the White House, and beyond.Some forty years later, when Lydia's granddaughter wanted to show her own ballet class evidence of her grandmother's success, she found almost none, but for some yellowing photographs and programs in the family basement. Lydia had struggled for years to reckon with the erasure of her success, as all the Swans had. Still united as sisters in the present, they decided it was time to share their story themselves.Captivating, rich in vivid detail and character, and steeped in the glamor and grit of professional ballet, The Swans of Harlem is a riveting account of five extraordinarily accomplished women, a celebration of their historic careers, and a window into the robust history of Black ballet, hidden for too long. During Covid, five ballerinas met weekly on Zoom and formed the 152nd Street Black Ballet Legacy Council. Karen Valby joined them and wrote their story “Karen Valby's The Swans of Harlem brings to life the stories of Black dancers whose contributions to the world of ballet were silenced, marginalized, and otherwise erased. Karen introduces readers to important figures of our past, while inspiring us to courageously chase our dreams.”Misty Copeland“These five original Dance Theatre of Harlem ballerinas fell in love with an art form that most of America believed was white and should remain so. Upon Arthur Mitchell's founding of an all-Black company in 1969, they eagerly took their places at the barre and challenged themselves to the utmost. They triumphed. They showed that Blacks could not only excel at classical ballet but could also shape the art in their own vibrant image. Karen Valby weaves their stories together as a choreographer would: the women form an ensemble, yet each gets her own riveting solo. It's thrilling to watch as they join forces at last and claim their unique place in American ballet's past, present and future.”—Margo Jefferson152nd Street Black Ballet Legacy FoundationThe 152nd St. Black Ballet Legacy is an independent non-profit organization created by five trailblazing Black ballerinas. Their professional careers began at the founding of Dance Theatre of Harlem, where their sisterhood was born. They have enjoyed and nurtured their sisterhood for over 50 years and continue to thrive for the sake of preserving our their rich history.Lydia Abarca Mitchell is a founding member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and their first prima ballerina. She danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Bugaku, Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Swan Lake, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Ruth Page's Carmen and Jose, William Dollar's Le Combat, and Arthur Mitchell's Ode to Otis, Holberg Suite, and Biosfera. She was featured on the cover of DanceMagazine, in the movie The Wiz, and on Broadway in Bob Fosse's Dancin'. It was a stunning career on the world stage.Karen Valby Author of Welcome to Utopia, and contributor to The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; Fast Company; and Entertainment WeeklyDance Theater of HarlemThe Dance Theater of Harlem was founded in 1969, during the Civil Rights movement by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook.Harlem School of the ArtsElizabeth Howard, Producer and Host of the Short Fuse Podcast Elizabeth Howard is the producer and host of the Short Fuse Podcast, conversations with artists, writers, musicians, and others whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. Her articles related to communication and marketing have appeared in European Communications, Investor Relations, Law Firm Marketing & Profit Report, Communication World, The Strategist, and the New York Law Journal, among others. Her books include Queen Anne's Lace and Wild Blackberry Pie, (Thornwillow Press, 2011), A Day with Bonefish Joe (David Godine, 2015) and Ned O'Gorman: A Glance Back (Easton Studio Press, 2016). She leads reading groups at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, New York. @elizh24 on Instagram
In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music
In September 2006, Margo Jefferson spoke to the Institute about her book, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2007). Jefferson received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for criticism when she was at the New York Times. Her 2015 book, Negroland: A Memoir, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. And in 2022, she published, Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir in fragments. She has taught at NYU, The New School, and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she is a professor of professional practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture
Wondering where to start with learning more about black and brown solidarity? Or how to write about a difficult experience? Reading author and educator Nina Sharma's wonderful debut “The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown” is a great first step. So grateful to Nina for her honest and elegant writing and for this amazing chat! Nina shares her sometimes rocky road to owning her writer identity, her struggle to write about her mental health challenges, and the profound connection she felt when she met her husband who is African-American and a fellow writer. BONUS: So much great advice on writing for everyone out there! Listen now on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and if you enjoyed this, PLEASE SHARE THE EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! SHOWNOTES for Ep. 92:Connect with Nina through her websiteand Twitter/XBuy her book “The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown”Books and other stuff we discussed on the show:Margo Jefferson's Negroland and Constructing a Nervous SystemBig Blue Marble Bookshop in PhiladelphiaAsian American Writer's WorkshopThe Question of Palestine by Edward SaidGrief is for People by Sloane CrosleyThey Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi GuptaLesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia PossanzaQuestions? Comments? Get in touch @theindianeditpodcast on Instagram !Want to talk gardens? Follow me @readyourgardenSpecial thanks to Sudipta Biswas, Aman Moroney and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!
Recent polls show Biden's level of support among non-college voters of all races is down to 39% – that's 9 points less than his level of support from those same voters in the 2020 election – Harold Meyerson comments.Next: Democrats in the Senate are going to lose the seat vacated by Joe Manchin in West Virginia – can they hold all the others in November? John Nichols has our analysis, starting with Maryland, where Democrat Angela Alsobrooks will face Republican “moderate” Larry Hogan, the popular anti-Trump former governor. Plus: The wonderful writer Margo Jefferson talks about “Constructing a Nervous System" – her memoir about growing up in a middle-class Black family in Chicago. (First recorded in April 2022)
Featuring author and critic Margo Jefferson, we explore Michael Jackson's childhood and rise to stardom -- growing up in the limelight of a family band and dealing with his complicated and dysfunctional relatives.Originally published in 2019.
Biden's debt limit deal has left progressives unhappy--Harold Meyerson says it's the best we could have expected under the circumstances.Also: The ideological roots of the January 6 insurrection go back decades before Trump entered politics — back to the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. Jeffrey Toobin will explain. His new book is ‘Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism.'Also: a conversation with Margo Jefferson about her memoir, “Constructing a Nervous System.” It's out now in paperback.
Welcome Bookends to a very exciting bonus episode in collaboration with The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023, we were joined by all three of this year's winners of the prize: Margo Jefferson, Michelle de Kretser and Victoria Adukwei Bulley. It was truly an honour to chat to these three incredible women about their winning books and learning more about their process, their inspirations and their feelings about winning the prize. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!Buy Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/constructing-a-nervous-system-a-memoir-margo-jefferson/6745611?ean=9781783785568Buy Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/scary-monsters-michelle-de-kretser/6320985?ean=9781838953973Buy Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quiet-victoria-adukwei-bulley/6754129?ean=9780571370337To follow Victoria: https://www.instagram.com/victoriaadukweibulley/?hl=enIf you enjoyed this episode please do rate, review & subscribe as it helps us to reach more listeners! You can follow us @apairofbookendspod on Instagram or @apairofbookends on Twitter and Tik Tok! Books & other recommendations mentioned throughout: Michaela Coel in conversation with Louis Theroux - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/11-michaela-coel/id1508985962?i=1000500762509The Good Immigrant (edited) by Nikesh Shukla The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir The Sovereignty of Quiet by Kevin Quashie Sula by Toni Morrison
EPISODE 1432: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of CONSTRUCTING A NERVOUS SYSTEM, Margo Jefferson, about Ella Fitzergerald, Cabinet Making, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of her Life through Art The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, MARGO JEFFERSON previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. Her latest book is Constructing a Nervous System (2022) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Margo Jefferson and poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley join BookRising host Bhakti Shringarpure to talk about their recent books which won the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023. The authors speak about crafting aesthetically innovative, genre-bending and political works. They also weigh in on particular challenges for Black women in the world of publishing and the importance of mentoring and camaraderie among writers.Margo Jefferson is a writer who worked as a theatre and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times, and her writing has appeared in several publications including Vogue, New York Magazine and New Republic. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Her book Negroland was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and was winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson. And most recently, Margo was awarded the Rathbones Folio prize for her genre-bending work of non-fiction titled Constructing a Nervous SystemVictoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and filmmaker of Ghanaian heritage, born and raised in Essex, England. She was shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2016 and received an Eric Gregory Award for her pamphlet Girl B, published as part of the New Generation African Poets series in 2017. She is an alumna of both the Barbican Young Poets and Octavia Poetry Collectives, and has held residencies internationally. In 2019, she was awarded a TECHNĒ scholarship for fully-funded doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London. Quiet is her 2022 her debut collection of poetry and which was also awarded the Rathbones Folio Prize only a week ago. Bhakti Shringarpure is the Creative Director of the Radical Books Collective.
Combining cultural examination and autobiography, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Margo Jefferson's new book pursues many threads at once- music, beauty, celebrity. Hear a review of her new book, “Constructing a Nervous System”
Happy holidays! For our sixth annual Talk Easy holiday special, we've partnered with the Audre Lorde Project to celebrate. Named after the titular feminist, poet, and activist, the Audre Lorde Project is an NYC-based community organizing center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color. Through the end of December, we're donating 100% of the proceeds from our shop to their services. These programs include educational events, social justice activism, and wellness and healing workshops. To learn more about their invaluable work, visit alp.org. After an introduction from Sam (0:44), writer and director Lena Dunham describes an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (3:41) and poet Rupi Kaur shares a tribute to the women of Iran (5:46). Then, a wide-ranging phone call with culture critic Margo Jefferson (7:30), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan on Matisse (33:28), and director Hiro Murai on Writing Los Angeles and George Saunders (35:50). On the back-half, a state of the union with NYT political reporter Astead Herndon (37:40), a heartfelt voicemail from Dr. James Whitfield (56:20), and special guest to close 2022 (1:00:26).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What are the raw materials of our lives? Who are the authors, the singers and songwriters, the actors and artists whose work resonates with each of us and makes us who we are? It's a question that is brilliantly and masterfully explored by arts critic Margo Jefferson in her new memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, in which she weaves her personal history with those of the artists who are part of her “nervous system,” setting it all within a wider cultural context. In this spirited and wide-ranging conversation, Julie and Eve talk with Margo about deriving power from our heroes and our anti-heros, how accepting complexity can be a better course than cancellation when we encounter racism and other biases in cherished artists and their works, how critics can betray their readers, and so much more. Margo Jefferson won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and previously served as Books and Arts Critic for Newsweek and The New York Times. Constructing a Nervous System was long listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. It was named a Best Book of the Year for The New Yorker and Publishers Weekly, and a Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Observer, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. Margo's earlier memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critic Circle Award for Autobiography. She's also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. One more thing: Book Dreams Inc.—a nonprofit that Julie and Eve founded that provides books to kids who lack them—is co-hosting a holiday event for students at the Monarch School, which serves homeless children in San Diego. They're covering the cost of filling a bookmobile with books for all 300 students. The bookmobile will arrive at the school, and each child will be able to choose a book for themselves, just in time for the holidays. If you'd like to help, go here and click on the yellow donate button. No amount is too small, and any extra funds will add books to the school library. All donations are tax-deductible. And as a thank you, the Book Dreams podcast will send you a list of book recommendations from more than 50 Book Dreams guests, some of whom are probably among your favorite authors. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. We encourage you to visit our website and sign up for our newsletter for information about our episodes, guests, and more. Book Dreams is a part of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Book Dreams, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows about literature, writing, and storytelling like Storybound and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by literary critic and scholar Peter Brooks. Brooks is the Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale. He is the author of many books but perhaps most notably of Reading for the Plot, originally published in 1984, which initiated the narrative turn in literary criticism. In it, Brooks focused on the story, how it was told and how it moved forward. His latest book Suduced by Story returns to narrative as its main subject, 30 years later. Brooks now finds narrative everywhere — from President Bush invoking the “stories” of all of his cabinet members to corporate websites touting the company “story”. What does this narrative takeover mean? Why have we started to privilege storytelling over any other form of expression? Brooks writes “This…suggests something in our culture has gone astray.” Peter Brooks joins us today to discuss, as he puts it, “the misuses, and mindless uses, of narrative.” Also, Darryl Pinckney, author of Come Back in September, returns to recommend three books: Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal; Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System; and Marina Warner's Esmond and Ilia.
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by literary critic and scholar Peter Brooks. Brooks is the Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale. He is the author of many books but perhaps most notably of Reading for the Plot, originally published in 1984, which initiated the narrative turn in literary criticism. In it, Brooks focused on the story, how it was told and how it moved forward. His latest book Suduced by Story returns to narrative as its main subject, 30 years later. Brooks now finds narrative everywhere — from President Bush invoking the “stories” of all of his cabinet members to corporate websites touting the company “story”. What does this narrative takeover mean? Why have we started to privilege storytelling over any other form of expression? Brooks writes “This…suggests something in our culture has gone astray.” Peter Brooks joins us today to discuss, as he puts it, “the misuses, and mindless uses, of narrative.” Also, Darryl Pinckney, author of Come Back in September, returns to recommend three books: Elizabeth Hardwick's Seduction and Betrayal; Margo Jefferson's Constructing a Nervous System; and Marina Warner's Esmond and Ilia.
The former New York Times critic, and author of the recent memoir Constructing a Nervous System, talks about the genius of the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, and how Fitzgerald helped shape Jefferson's own perspective.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson has been lauded as one of the most nuanced thinkers on race, class and feminism working today. Reset talks to the Chicago native about her new memoir, 'Constructing a Nervous System.'
Margo Jefferson talks to Colin Grant about her latest book, Constructing a Nervous System. It's a memoir unlike any other, taking as its focus each ‘influence, love and passion' which have gone to shape Jefferson as a person: her family, musicians, dancers, athletes and artists, and one which, in Maggie Nelson's words, ‘takes vital risks, tosses away rungs of the ladder as it climbs'. Vivian Gornick describes it as ‘one of the most imaginative – and therefore moving – memoirs I have ever read'.Find our upcoming events, online and in-person, here: lrb.me/upcomingevents See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Abstract: In this episode, Karin and Elizabeth discuss the last essay in the Nakan Journal: The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage by Elizabeth Amisu. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 58 –His Beauteous Race” Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 9, no. 1 (2022). Published electronically 21/07/2022. https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/episode-58 The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 58– His Beauteous Race, Discussing 'The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage'By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam'. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. References Elizabeth Amisu, The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Santa Barbara, California, Praeger, 2016). Amazon “BAD (1987)”, The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, issue 1, no 2, 2014, published online 22 July 2014, accessed 9 November 2021. URL: https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/bad-1987-2/. John Brannigan, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, (Basingstoke, Hampshire, and London, Macmillan, 1998). Jim Blashfield, Leave Me Alone, 1989. Colin Chilvers, Smooth Criminal, 1988. Nicholas Cullinan, Margo Jefferson, & Zadie Smith, Exhibit Cat. Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery, 2018). Nicolas Kluger, “The Michael Jackson and Winnie Harlow Effect: Impact on Vitiligo Awareness on the Internet”, Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (2019). John Landis, Black or White, 1991. Harriet J. Manning, Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series, London, Taylor and Francis, 2016). Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992). Elena Oliete, “Michael, Are You Ok? You've Been Hit by a Smooth Criminal: Racism, Controversy, and Parody in the Video Clips Smooth Criminal and You Rock My World”, Studies in Popular Culture, 29 (2006), p. 57-76. Joseph Vogel, “‘I Ain't Scared of No Sheets': Re-Screening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson's Black or White”, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 27, 2015, p. 112. Harvey Young, Theatre and Race, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Sherrow O. Pinder, Michael Jackson and the Quandary of Black Identity, New York, SUNY Press, 2021.
Abstract: In this episode, Karin and Elizabeth discuss the last essay in the Nakan Journal: The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage by Elizabeth Amisu. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 58 –His Beauteous Race” Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 9, no. 1 (2022). Published electronically 21/07/2022. https://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/episode-58 The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 58– His Beauteous Race, Discussing 'The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage'By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam'. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. References Elizabeth Amisu, The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Santa Barbara, California, Praeger, 2016). Amazon “BAD (1987)”, The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, issue 1, no 2, 2014, published online 22 July 2014, accessed 9 November 2021. URL: https://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/bad-1987-2/. John Brannigan, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, (Basingstoke, Hampshire, and London, Macmillan, 1998). Jim Blashfield, Leave Me Alone, 1989. Colin Chilvers, Smooth Criminal, 1988. Nicholas Cullinan, Margo Jefferson, & Zadie Smith, Exhibit Cat. Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery, 2018). Nicolas Kluger, “The Michael Jackson and Winnie Harlow Effect: Impact on Vitiligo Awareness on the Internet”, Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (2019). John Landis, Black or White, 1991. Harriet J. Manning, Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series, London, Taylor and Francis, 2016). Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992). Elena Oliete, “Michael, Are You Ok? You've Been Hit by a Smooth Criminal: Racism, Controversy, and Parody in the Video Clips Smooth Criminal and You Rock My World”, Studies in Popular Culture, 29 (2006), p. 57-76. Joseph Vogel, “‘I Ain't Scared of No Sheets': Re-Screening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson's Black or White”, Journal of Popular Music Studies, 27, 2015, p. 112. Harvey Young, Theatre and Race, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Sherrow O. Pinder, Michael Jackson and the Quandary of Black Identity, New York, SUNY Press, 2021.
Today, we sit with author and cultural critic Margo Jefferson. We begin with her new book, Constructing a Nervous System (6:54), an early Ella Fitzgerald memory (11:20), and the said (and unsaid) racial pedagogy of her childhood (16:24), defined by Condoleezza Rice (19:54), Bing Crosby (24:18), and a formative interaction at a high school party (27:49). On the back-half, we walk through Margo's entry into criticism (34:27), her role in the emerging feminist movement (36:46), and what real allyship looks like in the continued fight for reproductive rights (40:12). To close, Margo discusses her approach in the classroom at Columbia (41:52), finding ‘temperamental kinship' in Nina Simone (48:59), Oscar Wilde on the role of the critic (53:15), and how, at 74, she continues to “go on” (1:04:50). To learn more and find links to support abortion funds, visit https://talkeasypod.com/margo-jefferson/. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Margo Jefferson's 2015 memoir, Negroland, chronicled her experiences growing up as part of Chicago's Black bourgeoisie in the 1950s and '60s. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic has an acclaimed new title, Constructing A Nervous System. It's an innovative look at Jefferson's life and mind, as well as the artists, musicians and writers who shaped her.
Quick note: the audio on this episode is a bit spotty (thanks, Zoom!). Check out the transcript if it's too hard to listen!On this episode, Elizabeth and Larissa discuss "female troubles"--the things we don't talk about when we talk about having a uterus.Mentioned in this episode:Margo Jefferson, Deconstructing a Nervous SystemFrom Blood and Ash, Jennifer L. ArmentroutTurning Red (also check out the excellent bts piece, Embrace the Panda)Are You There God, it's me, Margaret, Judy Blumeanything Beverly Cleary Redstart Foods Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
Quick note: the audio on this episode is a bit spotty (thanks, Zoom!). Check out the transcript if it's too hard to listen!On this episode, Elizabeth and Larissa discuss "female troubles"--the things we don't talk about when we talk about having a uterus.Mentioned in this episode:Margo Jefferson, Deconstructing a Nervous SystemFrom Blood and Ash, Jennifer L. ArmentroutTurning Red (also check out the excellent bts piece, Embrace the Panda)Are You There God, it's me, Margaret, Judy Blumeanything Beverly Cleary Redstart Foods Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
Pulitzer Prize-winner Margo Jefferson tells Dorian Lynskey about her wide-ranging career as a critic. She discusses shedding light on the lives of everyone from Tina Turner to Michael Jackson, being the first Black woman book critic at Newsweek, and writing on race, class and gender at the New York Times. They also discuss her new book, Constructing a Nervous System, and ask can you ever separate art from the artist? “We're all curating our personal cultures.” “Classical music will always be full of elite, old, white people unless we change it.” “The problem always is and always will be funding.” “Wouldn't it be amazing if every primary school had a music teacher?” “We often focus on academic attainment, but we should also be celebrating music for the joy of music.” “There's such a lack of joined up thinking from central government.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602237/constructing-a-nervous-system-by-margo-jefferson/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When Wesley was 11, he wanted to be just like Sandra from the sitcom “227,” played by Jackée Harry. Sandra was sassy, boisterous and always got what she wanted. But it took reading Margo Jefferson's latest book, “Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir,” for Wesley understand the complexity of this memory. On today's episode, Wesley and Margo Jefferson sift through their most deep-rooted, and sometimes difficult-to-explain cultural influences. Why did Margo adore the scatting of Ella Fitzgerald, but squirm at the sight of her sweating onstage? Why was Margo drawn to Ike Turner as a teen, but not Tina Turner? Together, Wesley and Margo unpack their cultural memories — and what they reveal about who they are now.
Margo Jefferson joins us to discuss Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir (Pantheon, April 12), “a dynamic, unflinchingly candid examination of the impacts of race and class on culture and the author's own life” (starred review). Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week.
Author Douglas Stuart joins Eric Newman to talk about his new novel Young Mungo. Stuart's previous work, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Young Mungo is a coming of age novel about a young Protestant boy, growing up in working class Glasgow, who finds friendship and love with a Catholic boy who lives nearby. Together, they form a bond that promises to heal the wounds inflicted by family, class, and culture, hoping to build a world all their own before it all comes crashing down. Also, Margo Jefferson, author of "Constructing a Nervous System," returns to recommend "The Deja Vu: Black Dreams and Black Time" by performance artist Gabrielle Civil.
Author Douglas Stuart joins Eric Newman to talk about his new novel Young Mungo. Stuart's previous work, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Young Mungo is a coming of age novel about a young Protestant boy, growing up in working class Glasgow, who finds friendship and love with a Catholic boy who lives nearby. Together, they form a bond that promises to heal the wounds inflicted by family, class, and culture, hoping to build a world all their own before it all comes crashing down. Also, Margo Jefferson, author of "Constructing a Nervous System," returns to recommend "The Deja Vu: Black Dreams and Black Time" by performance artist Gabrielle Civil.
It's the end of our ‘The World Around Us' capsule of episodes! MENTIONED: Jordan calls up Ross Gay to talk about his garden and something called a goumi an outtake from our convo with adrienne maree brown, on the power of expressing the thing that needed to be expressed updates about cool Thresholds alums like Alex Kleeman, Melissa Febos, Margo Jefferson, and Susan Orlean some book recommendations from Typo's dad, Ed Yong our audio engineer/composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud whips up a sonic treat just for you We'll be back with our next capsule starting 5/18! For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition ''A national treasure'' (Vanity Fair), Margo Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Negroland, an examination of her upbringing and education amongst a small segment of privileged Black society in the United States. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson, an analysis of Jackson's cultural legacy as a pop star and celebrity. A former longtime theater and book reviewer for Newsweek and The New York Times, she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for her cultural criticism. Her essays and reviews have been published in a variety of other periodicals, including Vogue, Harper's Magazine, and New York Magazine, among many others. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Jefferson currently teaches writing at Columbia University. In Constructing a Nervous System, she brings to life the family members, artists, athletes, intellectuals, and activists who have influenced her the most. (recorded 5/4/2022)
The Democrats' chances in the midterms depend on turnout, on door-to-door, face-to-face organizing—and “Democracy Summer” is their plan to join with allies in organizing that kind of effort in the swing states. Harold Meyerson explains. Also: the disgraceful policy of America toward refugees from Ukraine – historian David Nasaw comments. And the wonderful writer Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir about growing up in a middle-class Black family in Chicago – it's called “Constructing a Nervous System.”
The Democrats' chances in the midterms depend on turnout, on door-to-door, face-to-face organizing—and “Democracy Summer” is their plan to join with allies in organizing that kind of effort in the swing states. Harold Meyerson explains. Also: the disgraceful policy of America toward refugees from Ukraine – historian David Nasaw comments. And the wonderful writer Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir about growing up in a middle-class Black family in Chicago – it's called “Constructing a Nervous System.”
Writer and critic Margo Jefferson joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir. A formally inventive and exacting assemblage of personal history and deliberation that delves into Jefferson's familial legacy, her battles with depression, and the oppressive construct of the model minority, the book is also a cultural reflection. It touches on such subjects as Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Powell, Ike Turner, and Willa Cather, especially as they manifest in the author's conception of herself. With a kaleidoscopic sense of voice, Jefferson enacts here the constant toggle of the self, from the harshness of the superego to the curiosity, pain and enthusiasm of the child and most of all, the ingenuity of the writer. Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, to recommend Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul.
Who made you the person you are? Today, we bring you two interviews from Black female authors who explore the impact that musicians, writers, and actresses had on their own artistic careers. First, Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer prize culture critic and celebrated memoirist, speaks to Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered about mixing memoir and criticism in her book to show both power and vulnerability. Then, Danyel Smith talks to Juana Summers on It's Been a Minute, about the history of Black women in music and how she hopes to give them the respect they deserve.
Writer and critic Margo Jefferson joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir. A formally inventive and exacting assemblage of personal history and deliberation that delves into Jefferson's familial legacy, her battles with depression, and the oppressive construct of the model minority, the book is also a cultural reflection. It touches on such subjects as Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Powell, Ike Turner, and Willa Cather, especially as they manifest in the author's conception of herself. With a kaleidoscopic sense of voice, Jefferson enacts here the constant toggle of the self, from the harshness of the superego to the curiosity, pain and enthusiasm of the child and most of all, the ingenuity of the writer. Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, to recommend Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul.
In a Week Where: Emmanuel Macron beats Marine Le Pen again to gain a 2nd term as President of France. Twitter accepts Elon Musk's $44 Billion bid to by the social network outright. World's oldest person Kane Tanaka dies in Japan at 119. DJ Tim Westwood is accused of of sexual misconduct by multiple women. The Tories investigate a senior MP after claims he was caught watching porn in Parliament. In the 1st of two Tech segments: (10:43) Elon Musk cops Twitter. And as you can imagine, it's a big deal. You may not think it is, but when the richest man in the world cops a global social network, you can't help but raise an eyebrow. Some raise red flags.In the 2nd Tech segment: (25:50) As Twitter explodes in more ways than one, a new platform, rivalling Instagram is on the rise. But is BeReal the saviour or a dystopian nightmare?In Film/TV: (39:32) Netlfix has lost subscribers for the first time and whilst that is a great opportunity to shit on Netflix for cancelling your fav show, (The Get Down was shafted) a loss for Netflix, is an important moment for the Streaming Wars.Lastly, in Life: (55:34) Ahead of her new memoir dropping, writer & academic Margo Jefferson meditates on the current cultural landscape: from Will Smith, to TikTok, to Nina Simone.Thank you for listening! If you want to contribute to the show, whether it be sending me questions or voicing your opinion in any way, peep the contact links below and I'll respond accordingly. Let me know "What's Good?"Rate & ReviewE-Mail: the5thelelmentpub@gmail.comTwitter & IG: @5thElement_UK5E Community DiscordWebsite: www.the5thelement.org.uk/5epnIntro Music - "Too Much" By VanillaInterlude - "Charismatic" By NappyHighChillHop MusicOther Podcasts Under The 5EPN:Diggin' In The Digits5EPN RadioBlack Women Watch...In Search of SauceThe Beauty Of Independence
Despite being a lauded writer and critic, despite being the winner of a Pulitzer Prize even, Margo Jefferson innovates and takes risks like a writer with nothing to lose. Her new book, Constructing a Nervous System is both the history of a mind's formation and the deconstruction of a culture and its tropes, as well as what feels like a form of self-analysis taking place on the page, beneath the readers eyes, in real time. It's a book about race and gender, but also of family and culture, where all four intersect, and how one person used the limitations society sought to place on her as a ladder to climb free of them. Buy Constructing a Nervous System here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781783789009/constructing-a-nervous-system-a-memoirThe winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson was for years a theater and book critic for Newsweek and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York magazine, and The New Republic. She is the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Shak Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
“I didn't want that more traditional kind of arc of childhood to a certain stance of wisdom or resignation or triumph. I wanted—partly because I felt with Negroland, and very much with this book—that ability to change persona, change my position, to acknowledge that one was performing at times, and that one played many, many roles … I wanted to be able to take in all of that, and a traditional memoir structure wasn't going to allow it.” Margo Jefferson is one of our most astute and elegant cultural critics, full stop. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, she's also the acclaimed author of several books, including her latest, Constructing a Nervous System. Margo joins us on the show to talk about finding a new language for criticism, engaging with art on her own terms, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald, investigating herself as a critic and a teacher, and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end the episode with another set of TBR Topoff book recommendations from Margie and Marc. Featured Books: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Negroland by Margo Jefferson Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays). A full transcript of this episode is available here.
The Amazon workers on Staten Island have won a historic victory—but now they must prepare to strike, and to win support for their strike from the community power structure. The Nation's Strikes Correspondent, Jane McAlevey explains why, and howAlso on this week's show, we have a conversation with Margo Jefferson about her new memoir, “Constructing a Nervous System.” Her earlier memoir, “Negroland,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and before that she won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism for her work as book and arts critic for the New York Times. She's also written for The Nation.Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Cultural critic Margo Jefferson deconstructs her nervous system… or at least explains to Roxane how the culture, not just family, has made her who she is. She talks about her new memoir, which situates cultural criticism alongside personal memories. Also, Roxane reflects on what memoirists reveal, and don't reveal, to their readers. Mentions: ● C.J. Hauser's essay “The Crane Wife” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/ ● C.J. Hauser's memoir “The Crane Wife” https://bookshop.org/books/the-crane-wife-a-memoir-in-essays/9780385547079 ● Margo Jefferson's “Negroland” https://bookshop.org/books/negroland-a-memoir/9780307473431 ● Margo Jefferson's “Constructing a Nervous System” https://bookshop.org/books/constructing-a-nervous-system-a-memoir/9781524748173 Credits: Curtis Fox is the producer. Our researcher is Yessenia Moreno. Production help from Kaitlyn Adams and Meg Pillow. Theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning arts critic Margo Jefferson talks with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute about her memoir "Negroland," which recounts what it was like to come of age in Black Chicago's upper crust at a time when the city -- and the country -- was racially segregated.
In the first of three guest episodes from a new podcast, Myself With Others, hosted by Adam Shatz, writer and critic Margo Jefferson talks about her childhood in Chicago, her early experiences in radical theatre at Brandeis University, her relationship to the feminist and Black Power movements, her emergence as a writer, and her battles with melancholia. Produced by Richard Sears.Subscribe to Myself With Others wherever you're listening to this podcast.Find out more about the series here: https://www.myselfwithothers.com/Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Myself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the critic Margo Jefferson, an Institute fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Margo Jefferson won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 1995, and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography for her memoir, Negroland, about growing up in an upper-middle class black family in Chicago. During her years at the New York Times, she wrote brilliantly about literature, music, dance, and the way racial politics seeps into culture: what the late Stanley Crouch called the “all-American skin game.” In our conversation, Margo spoke about her childhood in Chicago, her early experiences in radical theater at Brandeis University, her relationship to the feminist and Black Power movements, her emergence as a writer, and her battles with melancholia.NegrolandOn Michael JacksonRipping Off Black Music - Harper's MagazineSome American Feminists
Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we add a bonus interview to our series on Final Fantasy VI. We are joined by Sebastian Deken, whose new book explores especially the music in the game. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Podcast breakdown: 0:51 Interview 1:05:21 Break 1:06:03 Outro Issues covered: not being able to talk about video game music, researching live performances of video game music, pitching Boss Fight Books, playing a friend's copy of Final Fantasy, racking up Blockbuster fines from pushing the rental, knowing that you're a musician from early on, studying to be an opera singer, having punishing stage fright for performance, getting into the Columbia MFA program, getting a great thesis advisor, the influence of prog rock on FF6's soundtrack, "the steampunk of music," Celtic music as an influence, the other influences you hear, having the Chocobos take you out of the game, the transitions from overworld to Zozo, knowing what to expect from a game vs not, needing a quilt of a game to quilt the music, planet-hopping, doing a lot of work through the music, having to find a way to talk about music through analogy, showing a few examples visually, the subtlety of Relm's musical number, sassy Relm, getting the whole story about Shadow and Relm through multiple playthroughs, the opera scene and "how is it possible," not making any sense to get the airship this way, the game as an opera with a three act structure, reflecting back what's happening in the game, opera as a strange confluence of factors, transcendant beauty that stays with you, opera as its own answer, needing to hear something as an 8x8 square, maintaining the illusion, matches of fidelity, the viewpoint on opera, not being meant to see people up close in opera. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: biostats, Brett White, Boss Fight Books, NES, StarTropics, Dragon Quest, Matt Shafeek, Gabe Durham, GameCube, Kirk Hamilton, Strong Songs, St Louis Symphony, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Margo Jefferson, Michael Jackson, Koichi Sugiyama, Nomuo Uematsu, Mario (series), Nine Inch Nails, Ennio Morricone, Indiana Jones, Baldur's Gate, JRR Tolkien, Ultima, Skyrim, Elder Scrolls (series), Forgotten Realms, Super Mario RPG, Ryan Thompson, Cosi fan tutte, La traviata, Otello, Puccini, Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Flute, Kenneth Branagh, Hamlet, Spelunky, Derek Yu, ZZT, Anna Anthropy, Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima, Dragon Quest Builders, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: Takeaways and feedback Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com
This episode's transcript can be found hereNadia Owusu is a woman whose life story spans continents. Losses and uprootings marked her early life, leaving her with questions about her worth, her identity, even her sanity. A woman with an emotional seismometer, always attuned to the possibility of loss, she witnessed civil war, terrorism, and the ravages of colonialism and anti-blackness. She was also abandoned by her birth mother, lost her father to cancer, and fought with her widowed stepmother for the truth of her father's memory.Described by Margo Jefferson as “rigorous and luminous” and by Xiaolu Guo as “intense and intimate” Aftershocks is a beautiful, moving, unflinching memoir of a woman who transcends boundaries and defies categories. GuestYou can find Nadia Owusu on twitter at @NadiaOwusu1 on Instagram @wheresnadia and online at nadiaaowusu.com Her Whiting Award-winning memoir Aftershocks is available now.Works & Authors Mentioned:Go Tell It on the Mountain - James BaldwinRen Hang (Eponymous)How to Build a Human - Emma ByrneFind Us Online- Patreon: www.patreon.com/nonficpod- Bookshop: www.uk.bookshop.org/shop/nonficpod- Twitter: www.twitter.com/nonficpod- Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/nonficpodCredits- Hosts: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Producer: Emma Byrne and Georgie Codd- Guest: Nadia Owusu- Social Team: Beatrice Bazell and Felicity Quick- Composer: Mike WyerAbout UsBrought to you by author and publishing rockstar Georgie Codd and author and broadcaster Emma Byrne, NonFicPod is your home for the latest nonfiction must reads. Our premium podcast, Sh*t I Wish I'd Known teaches you the lessons that we (and our guests) have learned about writing - and about life. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Abstract In part 2 of On The Wall, Elizabeth and Karin discuss the exhibition guided by the catalogue and the art and artists curated by Elizabeth. They walk you through the exhibition as if they are there explaining what they see and put it into context. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 48 – On The Wall Part 2” Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 7, no. 6 (2021). Published electronically 27/05/2021. https://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/episode48-part-2-on-the-wall/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 48 – On The Wall Part 2 By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam'. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. References Margo Jefferson, 'Was I in denial? Margo Jefferson on Michael Jackson's legacy', The Guardian (2019) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/07/margo-jefferson-on-michael-jacksonJoseph Vogel, 'How Dangerous kicked Off Michael Jackson's Race paradox', The Guardian (2018) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/17/black-and-white-how-dangerous-kicked-off-michael-jacksons-race-paradoxAdrian Searle, 'Michael Jackson On The Wall Review,' The Guardian (2018) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/27/michael-jackson-on-the-wall-review-artists-dream-model-national-portrait-gallery-londonElizabeth Amisu, 'Academic Book Review: On Michael Jackson', The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014). https://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/elizabeth-amisu-on-michael-jackson-by-margo-jefferson/Mark Ryden about the frame of The dangerous Painting and On The Wall, Watch HereMichele Wallace, 'Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and ‘The Ecstasy of Communication', The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015) https://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/michael-jackson-black-modernisms-and-the-ecstasy-of-communication/Joseph Vogel, 'Michael Jackson's dangerous and the reinvention of pop', Popmatters, https://www.popmatters.com/michael-jackson-reinvention-of-pop-2495948728.htmlIsabelle Petitjean, Conference “Dangerous", Michael Jackson & Mark Ryden, Pop Music & Fine Arts. Watch Here Isabelle Petitjean, "Dangerous" - from Mark Ryden to Michael Jackson - Pop Culture in the Pantheon of Fine Arts (Delatour ed, 2017).Michael Bush, The King of Style: Dressing Michael Jackson (Insight Editions 2021).Elizabeth Amisu, ‘Liberace Has Gone To War': Undressing Michael Jackson's Fashion', Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Preager, 2016).Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop', documentary (UK, 2010) Watch Here, Buy DvD Joseph Vogel, 'I Ain't Scared of No Sheets: Rescreening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson's Black or White', Journal of Popular Music Studies 27,1 (2015) https://www.academia.edu/11493559/I_Ain_t_Scared_of_No_Sheets_Re_screening_Black_Masculinity_in_Michael_Jackson_s_Black_or_White_Journal_of_Popular_Music_Studies_27_1_March_2015Willa Stilwater, M Poetica: Michael Jackson's Art of Connection and Defiance, Second Edition (Kindle, 2013).Karin merx,
Abstract In part 2 of On The Wall, Elizabeth and Karin discuss the exhibition guided by the catalogue and the art and artists curated by Elizabeth. They walk you through the exhibition as if they are there explaining what they see and put it into context. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 48 – On The Wall Part 2” Podcast, Michael Jackson’s Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 7, no. 6 (2021). Published electronically 27/05/2021. https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/episode48-part-2-on-the-wall/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 48 – On The Wall Part 2 By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. References Margo Jefferson, 'Was I in denial? Margo Jefferson on Michael Jackson's legacy', The Guardian (2019) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/07/margo-jefferson-on-michael-jacksonJoseph Vogel, 'How Dangerous kicked Off Michael Jackson's Race paradox', The Guardian (2018) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/17/black-and-white-how-dangerous-kicked-off-michael-jacksons-race-paradoxAdrian Searle, 'Michael Jackson On The Wall Review,' The Guardian (2018) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/27/michael-jackson-on-the-wall-review-artists-dream-model-national-portrait-gallery-londonElizabeth Amisu, 'Academic Book Review: On Michael Jackson', The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014). https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/elizabeth-amisu-on-michael-jackson-by-margo-jefferson/Mark Ryden about the frame of The dangerous Painting and On The Wall, Watch HereMichele Wallace, 'Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and ‘The Ecstasy of Communication', The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015) https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/michael-jackson-black-modernisms-and-the-ecstasy-of-communication/Joseph Vogel, 'Michael Jackson’s dangerous and the reinvention of pop', Popmatters, https://www.popmatters.com/michael-jackson-reinvention-of-pop-2495948728.htmlIsabelle Petitjean, Conference “Dangerous", Michael Jackson & Mark Ryden, Pop Music & Fine Arts. Watch Here Isabelle Petitjean, "Dangerous" - from Mark Ryden to Michael Jackson - Pop Culture in the Pantheon of Fine Arts (Delatour ed, 2017).Michael Bush, The King of Style: Dressing Michael Jackson (Insight Editions 2021).Elizabeth Amisu, ‘Liberace Has Gone To War’: Undressing Michael Jackson’s Fashion', Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Preager, 2016).Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop’, documentary (UK, 2010) Watch Here, Buy DvD Joseph Vogel, 'I Ain't Scared of No Sheets: Rescreening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson's Black or White', Journal of Popular Music Studies 27,1 (2015) https://www.academia.edu/11493559/I_Ain_t_Scared_of_No_Sheets_Re_screening_Black_Masculinity_in_Michael_Jackson_s_Black_or_White_Journal_of_Popular_Music_Studies_27_1_March_2015Willa Stilwater, M Poetica: Michael Jackson's Art of Connection and Defiance, Second Edition (Kindle, 2013).Karin merx, Elizabeth Amisu,
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. Her memoir, Negroland, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts. Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com. Find more from Thresholds at www.thisisthresholds.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jiayang Fan, friend of Sinica and staff writer for The New Yorker, joins Kaiser and Jeremy for a discussion on her recently published long-form piece, How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda. The three talk about the experiences that informed her writing, her mother, and how this piece has been received in the United States and abroad.7:27: Drawing the ire from both sides of the discussion on China28:48: The remembered sense of humiliation in Chinese history33:49: Losing face, family, and Chinese culture46:40: Sexism within online commentaryRecommendations:Jeremy: A column by James Carter: This Week in China’s History, featured on SupChina.Jiayang: Negroland: A Memoir, by Margo Jefferson. Kaiser: Dune, by Frank Herbert.
SpeakEasy’s fifth episode highlights stories united by the theme “It’s Not You”: Pulitzer Prize–winning author and critic Margo Jefferson, memoirist George Hodgman, and novelist David Ebershoff share their journeys of negotiating issues of identity, memory, and what it means to be you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Celebrating the release of the 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology, PEN America and The Poetry Project present an evening of exceptional work from currently incarcerated writers, staged by a series of dynamic authors, actors and activists. Part 1 of 2 Cortney Lamar Charleston reads Self Portrait As State Property by P.M. Dunne (00:20) Margo Jefferson reads “Thorazine, Haldol & Coffee: My Life in a Prison Mental Health Ward,” by Michael Kaiser (03:58) T Kira Madden reads “My Co-Worker,” Edward Ji (14:50) Shaun Leonardo reads "Geode" by David A. Pickett (15:33) Rachel Eliza Griffiths reads “Time Reversal Invariance" by David Pickett (26:55) Kevin Boone, Tamika Graham, Milton Jones, Paul Kim, and Edwin Santan perform “Never 2 Late” by John Benjamin (29:00) T Kira Madden reads "Under the Bridge" by Christiana Justice (42:15) Robert Pollock reads "Monologue" by Sean Thomas Dunne (45:41)
Merel en Wessel maken een podcast waarin we samen met gasten een maatschappelijk relevant thema bespreken aan de hand van een cultureel object naar keuze. Via deze tekst, film, muziek of ander element van cultuur proberen we het thema beter te begrijpen vanuit ieders eigen achtergrond en expertise. Aflevering drie gaat over "de schande van de auteur," een variant op het concept van de dood van de auteur. Naar aanleiding van het net verschenen boek Door de Schaduwen Bestormd - Reflecties op de controverse rond de oorlogsjaren van Lucebert komt Yi Fong Au praten over de invloed van de vermeende slechtheid van auteurs op de interpretatie van hun werk. Moeten we werken van racistische auteurs anders lezen? Zouden we het werk van artiesten met Nazi-sympathieën nog wel moeten lezen? In andere worden: wat doet het beeld van een kunstenaar met het interpreteren van het werk? Herwaarns Podcast 03 - De Schande van de Auteur Ook te beluisteren op SoundCloud en YouTube. Nieuwsgierig naar de volgende afleveringen? Wil je wellicht een keer meedoen? Meer informatie vind je bij Herwaarns Podcast – Planning en Uitleg. Meer afleveringen: podcast overzicht. Verwijzingen Schande van de auteur: Dood van de auteur: Roland Barthes. "Dood van de Auteur." (La mort de l'auteur) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author. Culturele objecten: H. G. Wells - The Time Machine. Net als al zijn werken te vinden op Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35Yi Fong Au en Tommy van Avermaete - Door de Schaduwen Bestormd - Reflecties op de controverse rond de oorlogsjaren van Lucebert. Uitgeverij Oevers. (Kijk vooral hier: https://uitgeverijoevers.nl/door-de-schaduwen-bestormd-lucebert/)(Met het specifieke gedicht Zielsverhuizing)Michael Jackson - Thriller. (Aan de hand van het Volkskrant-interview met Margo Jefferson - https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/margo-jefferson-wis-michael-jackson-niet-uit-maar-leer-van-zijn-leven~b9057303d/) Overig: Lucebert biografieën: Peter Hofman - Lichtschikkend en zingend: de jonge Lucebert uit 2004 en Wim Hazeu - Lucebert uit 2018.
Isabelle is back from Africa where she had an obnoxiously luxe few weeks (and met a racist named Lindy). We talk Elizabeth Holmes - the scandal everyone can't seem to get enough of. And in the wake of another ambition-gone-wrong tale, we question: Is ambition overrated? And are we working ourselves to death out of fear not doing so is going to let the feminist side down? Plus, a deep-dive on the Madeline McCann documentary. Read:On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson https://www.booktopia.com.au/on-michael-jackson-margo-jefferson/prod9781783784202.htmlAdele by Leila Slimanihttps://www.booktopia.com.au/adele-leila-slimani/prod9780571331956.htmlEverything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton https://www.penguin.com.au/books/everything-i-know-about-love-9780241982105The Argument podcasthttps://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-new-york-times/the-argumentTo Live and Die In LA podcast (2019)https://www.radio.com/media/podcast/live-and-die-laUs (2019) by Jordan Peelehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/'The Ending of 'Us' Explained' by Grace O'Neill for ELLE.com.auhttps://www.elle.com.au/culture/us-movie-ending-explained-20150New York Times' The Daily Podcast: 'How New Zealand Banned Assault Rifles in 7 Days'https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/podcasts/the-daily/new-zealand-gun-ban.htmlPandora Sykes' for The Times: 'Is an Obsession With Achievement Holding You Back?'https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fomog-fear-missing-out-goals-is-obsession-achievement-holding-you-back-x3l06dmnpThe Ambition Collision by Lisa Miller for The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/what-happens-to-ambition-in-your-30s.htmlThe Dropout podcast (2019)http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) by Alex Gibney and HBOhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt8488126/'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann' (2019) on Netflixhttps://www.netflix.com/title/80194956You can email us on afterworkdrinkspodcast@gmail.com, follow us on Instagram at @afterworkdrinkspodcast or join our private Facebook group, 'After Work Drinks Podcast.' Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
September 12, 2018 at the Boston Athenæum. On its 150th anniversary, discover the story of the beloved classic that has captured the imaginations of generations. Soon after publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women became an enormous bestseller and one of America’s favorite novels. Its popularity quickly spread throughout the world, and the book has become an international classic. Alcott’s novel has moved generations of women, many of them writers; Simone de Beauvoir, J. K. Rowling, bell hooks, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Margo Jefferson, and Ursula K. Le Guin were inspired by Little Women, particularly its portrait of the iconoclastic young writer, Jo. In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Rioux recounts how Louisa May Alcott came to write Little Women, drawing inspiration for it from her own life. Rioux also examines why this tale of family and community ties, set while the Civil War tore America apart, has resonated through later wars, the Depression, and times of changing opportunities for women. In gauging its current status, Rioux shows why Little Women remains a book with such power that people carry its characters and spirit throughout their lives.
In conversation with Margo Jefferson Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Margo Jefferson. Jefferson, now a professor of writing at Columbia University, spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. Negroland, her second book, recounts the context, pressures, expectations and privileges of the black bourgeoisie.
In conversation with Margo Jefferson Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Margo Jefferson. Jefferson, now a professor of writing at Columbia University, spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. Negroland, her second book, recounts the context, pressures, expectations and privileges of the black bourgeoisie.
Melanie Rehak and Margo Jefferson discuss the relationship between language and criticism, developing a voice, the intersection of race, privilege and criticism, and claiming characters from Little Women.
Cultural critic Margo Jefferson explores the meaning of “We” in “We the People” as part of the University of Oregon Humanities Center's 2017–18 Kritikos Lecture Series.
This week’s episode sees Sam Leith joined by Margo Jefferson, author of 'On Michael Jackson' and the memoir Negroland, to moonwalk back to the glory days of Michael Jackson. Jackson was one of the central figures in pop culture, but what was it that made him so captivating? And can his artistic legacy ever be disentangled from the gruesome murk of the last years?
Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson discusses her book On Michael Jackson and her memoir Negroland. Her memoir recounts her memories of coming of age among the midcentury Negro elite in Chicago. Jefferson talks about how ideals of black respectability impacted the ways young black women thought about and treated their bodies and appearance. Jefferson gave lectures titled "From 'I' to 'We': The Role of the Citizen-Critic" at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Portland on May 30th and 31st, 2018 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2017-18 Kritikos Lecturer in the Humanities.
May 30, 2018. Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson gives the 2017-18 Kritikos Lecture in the Humanities, part of the "We the People" series. Jefferson is the author of Negroland: A Memoir.
The stress and pressures of being black upper class is chronicled in this national Marfield Prize Book for writing in the Arts. Margo Jefferson discusses her book Negroland.
Writer Zinzi Clemmons speaks with author and cultural critic Margo Jefferson about her debut novel, What We Lose. They talk about the experience of being biracial, struggling with terminal disease, black womanhood and motherhood, and how fiction can be influenced by creative essay writing.
From an author of rare, haunting power, a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age--a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country. Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor--someone, or something, to love. In arresting and unsettling prose, we watch Thandi's life unfold, from losing her mother and learning to live without the person who has most profoundly shaped her existence, to her own encounters with romance and unexpected motherhood. Through exquisite and emotional vignettes, Clemmons creates a stunning portrayal of what it means to choose to live, after loss. An elegiac distillation, at once intellectual and visceral, of a young woman's understanding of absence and identity that spans continents and decades, What We Lose heralds the arrival of a virtuosic new voice in fiction. Praise for What We Lose "Penetratingly good and written in vivid still life, What We Lose reads like a guided tour through a melancholic Van Gogh exhibit--wonderfully chromatic, transfixing and bursting with emotion. Zinzi Clemmons's debut novel signals the emergence of a voice that refuses to be ignored." --Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout "An intimate narrative that often makes another life as believable as your own." --John Edgar Wideman, author of Writing to Save a Life "The narrator of What We Lose navigates the many registers of grief, love and injustice, moving between the death of her mother and the birth of her son, as well as an America of blacks and whites and a South Africa of Coloreds. What an intricate mapping of inner and outer geographies! Clemmons's prose is rhythmically exact and acutely moving. No experience is left unexamined or unimagined." --Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland "Zinzi Clemmons' first book heralds the work of a new writer with a true and lasting voice--one that is just right for our complicated millennium. Bright and filled with shadows, humor, and trenchant insights into what it means to have a heart divided by different cultures, What We Lose is a win, just right for the ages." --Hilton Als, author of White Girls "I love how Zinzi Clemmons complicates identity in What We Lose. Her main character is both South African and American, privileged and outsider, driven by desire and gutted by grief. This is a piercingly beautiful first novel." --Danzy Senna, author of New People "It takes a rare, gifted writer to make her readers look at day-to-day aspects of the world around them anew. Zinzi Clemmons is one such writer.What We Lose immerses us in a world of complex ideas and issues with ease. Clemmons imbues each aspect of this novel with clear, nuanced thinking and emotional heft. Part meditation on loss, part examination of identity as it relates to ethnicity, nationality, gender and class, and part intimate look at one woman's coming of age, What We Lose announces a talented new voice in fiction." --Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House "Wise and tender and possessed of a fiercely insightful intimacy, What We Lose is a lyrical ode to the complexities of race, love, illness, parenthood, and the hairline fractures they leave behind. Zinzi Clemmons has gifted the reader a rare and thoughtful emotional topography, a map to the mirror regions of their own heart." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal, a contributing editor to Literary Hub, and deputy editor for Phoneme Media. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope, The Paris Review Daily, Transition, and the Common. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Event date: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 7:30pm
A special discussion about music and the ghosts of America’s racial past featuring two highly acclaimed authors. A murder mystery, a ghost story, and two cultural tourists collide in Hari Kunzru’s spellbinding novel White Tears, which connects contemporary cultural appropriation and white hawkers of black music with the history of racism and the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues. Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Margo Jefferson’s classic work of cultural criticism, On Michael Jackson, a complex and tender portrait of the King of Pop, reckons with child stardom and the specter of racial ghosts that shaped his celebrity. She reads from her evolving work on Michael Jackson and current writing on jazz singers. After reading from their work, they have a deep discussion with GQ senior editor Kevin Nguyen about cultural appropriation.
In this episode of the Granta podcast, Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, reads Kathleen Collins’s short story, ‘The Uncle’, taken from the collection Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African-American playwright, film-maker, civil rights activist and educator. You can read more work by Kathleen Collins on our website: granta.com/whatever-happened-to-interracial-love/
Margo Jefferson on Cécile McLorin Salvant's “The Trolley Song.”
Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts—from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists—amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan’s playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City’s unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York’s buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA ABOUT THE AUTHORS Rebecca Solnit is a prolific writer, and the author of many books including Savage Dreams, Storming the Gates of Paradise, and the best-selling atlases Infinite City and Unfathomable City, all from UC Press. She received the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society for her work on the previous atlases. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, New York, Harper's, and the Believer, among many other publications. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World. http://joshuajellyschapiro.com/ Reviews "In orienting oneself in this atlas...one is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history’s eye...thoroughly terrific."—Maria Popova Brain Pickings "The editors have assembled a remarkable team of artists, geographers and thinkers...The maps themselves are things of beauty...This is a work that, like its predecessors, isn’t in the business of rosy nostalgia...Nonstop Metropolis is a document of its time, of our time." - Sadie Stein—New York Times "Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's collection achieves the trifold purpose that all good cartography does — it's beautiful, it inspires real thought about civic planning, and, most of all, it's functional."—The Village Voice "...the New York installment [of the Atlas Trilogy] is eccentric and inspiring, a nimble work of social history told through colorful maps and corresponding essays. Together, Solnit, Jelly-Schapiro and a host of contributors — writers, artists, cartographers and data-crunchers — have come up with dozens of exciting new ways to think about the five boroughs." —San Francisco Chronicle "Nonstop Metropolis is an engaging and enlightening read for anyone who loves New York City, creative scholarship, and top-notch graphic design." —Foreword Reviews "The sum of it all is, like New York itself, overwhelming, alluring and dazzlingly diverse."—Jewish Daily Forward "...the book...contains many beautiful and not-so-beautiful images that document New York’s past and the present, and make tangible the social and cultural diversity of this extraordinary place." —Times Literary Supplement "26 maps of New York that prioritize bachata over Broadway, pho over pizza." —Wired.com One of Publishers Weekly's 20 Big Indie Books of 2016—Publishers Weekly“I am thrilled to have another book-object in this series, as I devoured the San Francisco volume when I was there, and the New Orleans one likewise. Now finally here is one about the town where I live. The format, with the maps, networks, and accompanying stories and histories, is a lovely, nonlinear way of mirroring the almost infinite layers that make up a city. We all have our own mental maps of our cities and the ones we visit—maps that are, like the ones here, historical, musical, temporal, personal, economic, and geographical. The maps in Nonstop Metropolis are a good approximation of how we New Yorkers experience and perceive the city we live in.”—David Byrne “Put your map apps and your GPS away, because none of those high-tech innovations will lead you to the immense satisfaction that this hard-to-put-down book is full of. The unique, clever, and artistic maps give you the who, what, when, and, most importantly, where of loads of unusual and little-known New York City histories. As a New York City native I finally have all the maps I need to the treasures and secrets of my hometown.”—Fab 5 Freddy “A new way to think about the cultural and political life of cities.”—Randy Kennedy, New York Times “Solnit, well known for her writing on politics, art and feminism, has turned her attention to New York City’s complexities in Nonstop Metropolis, the third of her trilogy of atlases and accompanying exhibitions.”—Alex Rayner, The Guardian Selected praise for Infinite City and Unfathomable City “A thought-inducing collection of maps that will challenge your view of what atlases can be.”—Kevin Winter, San Francisco/Sacramento/Portland Book Review “A deeply illuminating assemblage of maps and essays.”—Lynell George, Chicago Tribune “Inventive and affectionate.”—Lise Funderburg, New York Times Book Review “Brilliantly disorients our native sense of place.”—Jonathon Keats, San Francisco Magazine “With Unfathomable City, Solnit and Snedeker have produced an idiosyncratic, luminous tribute to the greatest human creation defined by its audience participants: the city itself.”—Daniel Brook, New York Times
Through tears, and with the help of our oracle Margo Jefferson, we begin to process the election of Donald J. Trump.
For this week’s episode, we’re bringing you a conversation between two public intellectuals who have contributed immensely to our understanding of history, literature, cultural criticism, and politics, Macarthur Fellow Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Pulitzer Prize winner Margo Jefferson. In 2006, Gates and Jefferson sat down at the Library for a special event on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin co-presented with The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Abstract: In this Halloween (2016) episode Karin and Elizabeth discuss Michael Jackson's 1997 short film, 'Ghosts'. Going into amazing detail on the film-making, cinematography, acting, and many of the hidden social and political ideas which lurk beneath the surface. They also discuss the theme of transformation in Jackson's work, including 'Thriller'. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. 'Episode 18 – Halloween Special: 'Ghosts'' Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 3, no. 2 (2016). Published electronically 30/10/16. http://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/halloween/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 18 – Halloween Special: 'Ghosts' By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Michael Jackson was way ahead of his time... he uses transformation because he grew up and people didn't want him to grow up. -Elizabeth Amisu Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam'. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. All Our References and Where to Easily Find Them 1. The Michael Jackson's Ghosts short film via YouTube. 2. The 'Making of Michael Jackson's Ghosts' VH1. 3. Information about Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990). 4. Certified ‘Reading Michael Jackson's Short Films' Online Video Course: 6-Lesson Video Course with Karin Merx 5. Elizabeth Amisu, The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Praeger 2016). 6. Margo Jefferson, On Michael Jackson (Vintage, 2006). 7. © Rolling Stone 8. Joseph Vogel, '“Am I the Beast You Visualized?” The Cultural Abuse of Michael Jackson', Huffington Post (January 2, 2012), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-vogel/michael-jackson-trial-_b_1068750.html 9. Episode 10 (25/6/16): MJAS Exclusive: 7 Albums, 7 Songs, 7 Years (with Dr. Joe Vogel) 10. Joseph Vogel, Featuring Michael Jackson: Collected Writings on the King of Pop, (BlakeVision Books, 2012). 11. Elizabeth Amisu, ‘Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands': The Mortal Persona Of Michael Jackson', The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, 1, no. 1 (2014). 12. Current Michael Jackson Studies Courses: Introduction to Michael Jackson Studies Teaching Michael Jackson Studies Reading Michael Jackson in the Classroom Resources for Teaching Michael Jackson Studies Michael Jackson & Black History Michael Jackson's ‘Dangerous' Analysing Michael Jackson's ‘Dangerous' Certified Michael Jackson's ‘HIStory' Analysing Michael Jackson's HIStory Michael Jackson's HIStory as Autobiography Certified Visual Art of Michael Jackson Portrait Drawings of Michael Jackson Certified Michael Jackson & Classical Music Michael Jackson's Music Embraced by Classically Trained Musicians Certified ‘Reading Michael Jackson's Short Films' You May Also Like:
Abstract: This thirteenth episode is a celebration of Michael Jackson's 58th birthday. Karin and Elizabeth's conversation explores Michael Jackson and Afrocentricity, the predominantly American study of the history of black Africa. They discuss the many ways in which Michael Jackson was aware of, knowledgeable about, and proud of his African-American heritage, and how throughout his career, he gave a strong message in his work about black history in a variety of ways. They also discuss the following eight songs: Bad, Liberian Girl, Remember the Time, Jam, Black or White, Keep the Faith, They Don't Care About Us, History. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. "Episode 13 – MJAS Exclusive: Michael Jackson 58th Birthday: MJ & Afrocentricity." Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 3, no. 1 (2016). Published electronically 29/08/16. http://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/episode-13/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 13 – MJAS Exclusive: Michael Jackson 58th Birthday: MJ & Afrocentricity By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Michael is descended from the people of the Ivory Coast. He is King Sanwi. - Elizabeth Amisu All Our References and Where to Easily Find Them 1) Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story 2) Elizabeth Amisu, "‘Bad (1987)'."The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2014). Published electronically 22/7/14. http://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/bad-1987-2/. 3) Martin Scorsese, film director. 4) Elizabeth Amisu, "‘Crack Music': Michael Jackson's ‘Invincible'." The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2015). http://sya.rqu.mybluehost.me/website_94cbf058/elizabeth-amisu-crack-music-michael-jacksons-invincible/. 5) Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Harvard University Press 1992). 6) Harriet Manning, Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask (Ashgate, 1st edition 2016). 7) Margo Jefferson, On Michael Jackson (Vintage Books 2007). 8) Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation, Episode 4 (1/3/16): Michael Jackson and Monochromatic Cinematography 9) Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation, Episode 10 (25/6/16): MJAS Exclusive: 7 Albums, 7 Songs, 7 Years (With Dr. Joe Vogel). 10) Spike Lee, Bad 25 Documentary (2012). 11) Harvey Young, Theatre and Race (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 12) Esias van Hulzen 'Ballet Tanz der Nationen' 13) BBC World Service, Michael Jackson - The Thrill Of Thriller (2012). 14) Susan Fast, Dangerous (Bloomsbury 2014). 15) Elizabeth Amisu, Certified Dangerous Online Video Course (2016). 16) Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation, Episode 1 (29/6/15): Was Michael Jackson an Artist?. 17) Hazel Bryan and Elizabeth Eckford, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 1957.© Photograph by Will Counts/Indiana University Archives. 18) Information about the Black Panther Party. 19) Elizabeth Amisu, Certified Beyoncé in Culture Online Video Course (2016). 20) Armond White, 'How Deep is Your Afrocentricity? Ask Michael and Iman', Keep Moving: The Michael Jackson Chronicles, (Resistance Works, 2009), chapter 5, p.34. 21) Ibid. 22) Information about Ben Jonson. 23) Armond White, Keep Moving: The Michael Jackson Chronicles, p.36. 24) Information about Song of the Goat Theatre & Songs of Lear. 25) Smooth Criminal played by 2Cellos. 26) Prison version of Michael Jackson's They Don't Care About Us. 27) Mass Incarceration, Visualized, Video by The Atlantic, Sep 11, 2015.
Jack Hitt contributes to Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and This American Life. “I’ve always lived more or less unemployed in these markets, and happily so. I think being unemployed keeps you a little more sharp in terms of looking for stories. It never gets any easier. That motivation and that desperation, whatever you want to call that, is still very much behind many of the conversations I have all day long trying to find those threads, those strings, that are going to pull together and turn into something.” Thanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. @JackHitt Hitt on Longform [1:15] Episode #157: Margo Jefferson [1:30] Episode #129: Rukmini Callimachi [1:30] Episode #156: Renata Adler [3:15] "This Is Your Brain on God" (Wired • Nov 1999) [3:45] "61: Fiasco!" (This American Life • Apr 1997) [4:00] Hitt's This American Life Archive [4:30] "323: The Super" (This American Life • Jan 2007) [6:15] "The Billion-Dollar Shack" (New York Times Magazine • Dec 2000) [6:30] "Slumlord" (The Moth • Apr 2006) [25:30] "The $19,000 press pass: A former journalism school dean asks, is it work it?" (Carolyn Lewis • Washington Monthly • 1986) [32:00] The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (Victor Marchetti & John D. Marks • Alfred A. Knopf • 1974) [37:00] "What Did Noah Do With the Manure?" (Washington Monthly • Feb 1987) [pdf] [38:00] "Terminal Delinquents" (with Paul Tough • Esquire • Dec 1990) [41:30] "Toxic Dreams" (Harper’s • Jul 1995) [sub req’d] [46:30] White Noise (Don DeLillo • Penguin Books • 1984) [55:30] "15: Dawn" (This American Life • Feb 1996)
We examine how the most personal writing can illuminate a wider world as Hisham Matar and Margo Jefferson turn to memoir
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Dan Clendenin. Essay by Dan Clendenin: *Walking the Way of St. Francis* for Sunday, 26 June 2016; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Negroland; A Memoir* by Margo Jefferson (2015); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Inspired to Ride* (2015); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Address to the Lord (9)* by John Berryman.
Pulitzer-winning writer and cultural critic Margo Jefferson’s new memoir, Negroland, maps this very terrain, one on which money, privilege, and racism intersect in sometimes insidious ways. In Negroland—what Jefferson terms “a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty”—lived the best of Afro-America: doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and all-around strivers of the Third Race, the black aristocracy. Here in this community there were national and local clubs like Boule, Jack and Jill, the Guardsmen, Links, and black sororities and fraternities like Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Phi Alpha, founded to ensure that blacks of a certain pedigree would “embody and perpetuate the values of the Negro elite.”
Pulitzer-winning writer and cultural critic Margo Jefferson's new memoir, Negroland, maps this very terrain, one on which money, privilege, and racism intersect in sometimes insidious ways. In Negroland—what Jefferson terms “a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty”—lived the best of Afro-America: doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and all-around strivers of the Third Race, the black aristocracy. Here in this community there were national and local clubs like Boule, Jack and Jill, the Guardsmen, Links, and black sororities and fraternities like Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Phi Alpha, founded to ensure that blacks of a certain pedigree would “embody and perpetuate the values of the Negro elite.”
Margo Jefferson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, and Harper's. Her latest book is Negroland: A Memoir. “One of the problems with—burdens of—‘race conversations’ in this country is certain ideological, political, sociological narratives keep getting imposed. This is where the conversation should go, these are the roles we need. In a way, this is the comfort level of my discomfort. ... Maybe we’re all somewhat addicted—I think we are—to certain racial conversations, with their limitations and their conventions.” Thanks to MailChimp and Casper for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @jeffersonmargo Jefferson on Longform Jefferson's New York Times archive Brownscast: The Official Podcast of the Cleveland Browns [19:00] On Michael Jackson (Pantheon • 2006) [20:00] "Critic Jefferson Stays in Off-Broadway Negroland through November" (David Lefkowitz • Playbill • Nov 2001) [29:00] "Thomas Bradshaw by Margo Jefferson: An interview" (BOMB • 2009) [31:00] The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (Richard Rodriguez • Bantam Books • 1982) [31:00] Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (Richard Rodriguez • Penguin • 1993) [31:00] Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Richard Rodriguez • Penguin • 2002) [31:00] The Women (Hilton Als • Farrar Straus Giroux • 1996) [31:00] Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Mary McCarthy • Harvest/HBJ • 1957) [35:00] "Ripping Off Black Music From Thomas 'Daddy' Rice to Jimi Hendrix" (Harper's • Jan 1973) [sub req'd] [40:00] The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed their Workplace (Lynn Povich • Perseus • 2012) [57:00] "The Reign of Beyoncé" (Vogue • Sept 2015) [106:00] "Books of the Times: The Scars of Disease, External and Internal" (The New York Times • Sept 1994)
On Michael Jackson, is a loaded phrase and, in Margo Jefferson's hands, a book as provocative as its title. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times book critic examines the ever-changing king of pop in her book-length essay.
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