WannaScream
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I hope it's OK to make a thread just on a 4 minute dance but I feel it's quite a special one and maybe his most fascinating and creative.
There is an interesting article published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies that discusses the dance and the reaction/misunderstanding. It's a long read but worth it if anyone hasn't done so yet.
"Michael Jackson’s Panther Dance: Double Consciousness and the Uncanny Business of Performing While Black" by Elizabeth Chin.
https://www.academia.edu/2462183/Mi...he_Uncanny_Business_of_Performing_While_Black
It would be great to hear other people views on the dance and their favourite bits.
I think my favourite is the opening section which seems to be representing police brutality. Once the spotlight finds him and he reaches for something he is immediately hit by gunfire and his head drops.. what a brilliant idea to fit this into such a small sequence. He can perform the bullets because his hands move so fast!
There is an interesting article published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies that discusses the dance and the reaction/misunderstanding. It's a long read but worth it if anyone hasn't done so yet.
"Michael Jackson’s Panther Dance: Double Consciousness and the Uncanny Business of Performing While Black" by Elizabeth Chin.
https://www.academia.edu/2462183/Mi...he_Uncanny_Business_of_Performing_While_Black
Like Dunham’s fantasy ballet,the panther dance rejected the demands of white audiences for “Black entertainment” and instead offered a statement about Black identity. No jungle wiggles, no titillating jiggles. Jackson’s panther dance is a taking off of the mask, a revelation of the abiding rage and anger that whites both fear and suppress: a truth that cannot be morphed into something palatable either in dreams or in reality.
It would be great to hear other people views on the dance and their favourite bits.
I think my favourite is the opening section which seems to be representing police brutality. Once the spotlight finds him and he reaches for something he is immediately hit by gunfire and his head drops.. what a brilliant idea to fit this into such a small sequence. He can perform the bullets because his hands move so fast!