Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 3 September 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501355028
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 164x120x12 mm
- Weight 160 g
- Language English 134
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Long description:
The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman.
This book examines Janet's continuation of her quest for control as heard in her sixth album, The Velvet Rope. Engaging with the album, the promotion, the tour, and its accompanying music videos, this study unpacks how Janet uses Black cultural production as an emancipatory act of self-creation that allows her to reconcile with and, potentially, heal from trauma, pain, and feelings of alienation. The Velvet Rope's arc moves audiences to imagine the possibility of what emancipation from oppression--from sexual, to internal, to societal--could look like for the singer and for others. The sexually charged content and themes of abuse, including self-harm and domestic violence, were dismissed as "selling points" for Janet at the time of its release. The album stands out as a revelatory expression of emotional vulnerability by the singer, one that many other artists have followed in the 20-plus years since its release.
Table of Contents:
Track Listing
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. A Special Need
2. Like the Blues Need the Pain
3. Damn, Disconnected
4. Mmm . My Lips Hurt
5. Work in Progress
6. Let Me Just Fuck With it For a Minute
7. Welcome to My World
Notes
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
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