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Opowieść O Mitycznej Podróży Bohatera Współczesnej Kultury Popularnej, Czyli Kilka Uwag Na Temat Uroczystości Upamiętniającej Michaela Jacksona

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Ciołkiewicz P.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2013

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vol. 57

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issue 4

145-165

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The news of Michael Jackson’s death on 25 June 2009, a few days before a concert tour, circled the world and began an avalanche of stories about his life in the media. The author concentrates on those stories in which the musician is presented as a mythic hero. He uses Joseph Campbell’s idea of the monomyth in his analyses and begins by describing its basic points. Then he portrays Jackson’s funeral, which was transmitted worldwide, as a media event and refers in this context to the ideas of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz. He analyzes the funeral orations in terms of their representativeness of a certain type of narrative, i.e., they present Jackson as a hero changing the shape of the world by his actions. In the end, the author points to the need for further reflection on tales of mythic heroes in contemporary popular culture.

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Michael Jackson i inni metysi Pop a ewolucja

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Marcela M.

Świat i Słowo

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2010

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vol. 2010, nr 1(14)

167-176

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Today the end, not the beginning defines a human being. George Levine writes that in the new vision of the world which emerges from Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species nothing can be understood without understanding its history. Darwin asks about the beginning, not the end. In this perspective Michael Jackson seems to be the most important figure, since he, with his life and countless „operations”, embodies this impossible goal, becoming, as Łukasz Musiał called it, “a monstrous work in progress” and “a ghastly biological project”. Jackson means: diet supplements, surgical interventions and cosmetic procedures (botox, depilation), and fitness which help to hide natural body and create new, „holistic” (in its artificiality) project of a human being. It’s also a transcultural, transsexual and transpolitical project. Because of that maybe one of the most important myths of the present day is the myth of Pygmalion but à rebours: it is not the reality’s triumph over the art – the enlivening of Galatea by Pygmalion – but the time of Pygmalion’s transformation into a statue. It is the triumph of art over reality. The triumph of universal hybrids created in the process of hybridization (Jean Baudrillard), and Michael Jackson was one of the precursors of that process.

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„Król popu nie żyje! Zapraszamy Państwa na spektakl”. Śmierć i umieranie w kulturze celebrytów

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Ogonowska A.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura

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2010

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issue 1

135-145

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The subject matter of this article includes the beginning of Michael Jackson’s career, his presence in the media, the strategies of creating his public identity as a pop-culture star and a celebrity, his significance in the pop music and the modern pop culture, the strategies of the star’s “struggling” with fame and his fans’ expectations, and the issue of “Jackson” being a product of culture, which continues to exist and develop even after the death of the real person.

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1 Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura

1 Kultura i Społeczeństwo

1 Świat i Słowo

1 2013

2 2010

1 Ciołkiewicz P.

1 Marcela M.

1 Ogonowska A.

Opowieść O Mitycznej Podróży Bohatera Współczesnej Kultury Popularnej, Czyli Kilka Uwag Na Temat Uroczystości Upamiętniającej Michaela Jacksona

Michael Jackson i inni metysi Pop a ewolucja

„Król popu nie żyje! Zapraszamy Państwa na spektakl”. Śmierć i umieranie w kulturze celebrytów