{"id":5,"date":"2020-03-20T17:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/template-oneoff2\/?p=5"},"modified":"2020-04-27T19:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T23:48:47","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/2020\/03\/20\/5\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Music: The Power in Michael Jackson\u2019s Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout our time together as a class learning and discussing popular music and artists throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Michael Jackson was arguably the biggest of these figures. The \u201cKing of Pop\u201d transformed mainstream music and audiences to a new sound which set the foundation for the generations that followed. His music, however, was bigger than just music. In this website, we have made it our purpose to discuss how Michael Jackson\u2019s music and performance impacted the world as we know it, specifically, how he targeted an anti-violence message towards African-American communities in the United States with his song \u201cBeat It\u201d and its music video.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/files\/2020\/03\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close up of Jackson during the &#8220;Beat It&#8221; music video during the first verse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout our time together as a class learning and discussing popular music and artists throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Michael Jackson was arguably the biggest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/2020\/03\/20\/5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Than Music: The Power in Michael Jackson\u2019s Performance<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[142447],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}