{"product_id":"michael-jacksons-dangerous-by-susan-fast-9781623566319","title":"Michael Jackson's Dangerous","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDangerous\u003c\/em\u003e is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that’s a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood—politically questioning, sexually charged—yet unable to convince a sceptical public who had, by this time, been wholly indoctrinated by a vicious media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven though the record sold well, few understood or were willing to accept the depth and breadth of Jackson’s vision; and then before it could be fully grasped, it was eclipsed by a shifting pop music landscape and personal scandal—the latter perhaps linked to his assertive new politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book tries to cut through the din of dominant narratives about Jackson, taking up the mature, nuanced artistic statement he offered on \u003cem\u003eDangerous\u003c\/em\u003e in all its complexity. It is read here as a concept album, one that offers a compelling narrative arc of postmodern angst, love, lust, seduction, betrayal, damnation, and above all else, racial politics, in ways heretofore unseen in his music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis record offered a Michael Jackson that was mystifying for a world that had accepted him as a child and as childlike and, hence, as safe; this Michael Jackson was, indeed, dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455634915564,"sku":"9781623566319","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61p-q4zhb2L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774789452","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/michael-jacksons-dangerous-by-susan-fast-9781623566319","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}