{"title":"Michael Jackson’s Off the wall: beyond the wall of the American musical and colorist categorization","authors":"Isabelle Stegner-Petitjean","doi":"10.4000/VOLUME.9290","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyze how Michael Jackson’s album Off the wall (1979) dealt with American musico-racial, commercial and stylistic dichotomy in the early 1980s. It aims to highlight the way this production overcame not only divisions established by the charts, but also the colorist conventions linked to stylistic labels, through dynamics of sound imbrications and associations, both global and internal. These elements were creative milestones in the decategorizing process that Michael Jackson continually pursued throughout his adult career.","PeriodicalId":23663,"journal":{"name":"Volume!","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Volume!","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/VOLUME.9290","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article aims to analyze how Michael Jackson’s album Off the wall (1979) dealt with American musico-racial, commercial and stylistic dichotomy in the early 1980s. It aims to highlight the way this production overcame not only divisions established by the charts, but also the colorist conventions linked to stylistic labels, through dynamics of sound imbrications and associations, both global and internal. These elements were creative milestones in the decategorizing process that Michael Jackson continually pursued throughout his adult career.
本文旨在分析迈克尔·杰克逊的专辑《Off the wall》(1979)是如何处理20世纪80年代初美国音乐中种族、商业和风格的对立。它的目的是强调这种生产方式不仅克服了由图表建立的划分,而且通过全球和内部的声音砖块和关联的动态,还克服了与风格标签相关的色彩主义惯例。这些元素是迈克尔·杰克逊在他的成年生涯中不断追求的去分类过程中的创造性里程碑。