Michael Jackson

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Michael Jackson as an example of globalised music rather than as an object of study. He recounts that it was, at first, the only music his pupils in Niger knew1. He cites him among the hits, drawn from Black music, that are heard all over the world2, and makes him a hero of "people" culture, on a par with Obama3. He sees in him the emblem of an American culture without history, "amnesia-inducing and amnesiac"4, something everyone knows without knowing anything. He grants that he dances well but finds his music monotonous5. In his more recent sessions, he sets him against historical memory: people in Spain know him better than the Spanish Civil War, and young people know him better than the three million dead of the Korean War6. He also mentions in passing that he was produced by Quincy Jones, and brings him up in connection with the anachronisms of American sword-and-sandal films.

1. 1#5 Libéralisme-libertaire, consommation libidinale et musique...27 Sept 2014 · 26:13
2. 2Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 30:30
3. 3P comme Peuple30 Dec 2014 · 5:28
4. 4Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 40:05
5. 5Education : le Beau s'apprend-il ?20 Jul 2018 · 1:24:49
6. 6TROP TARD ?14 Aug 2024 · 36:16

Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.