Tribute to Bruce Swedien, by Isabelle Petitjean for MJBackstage magazine
A tribute to Bruce Swedien, Michael Jackson's emblematic sound engineer by Isabelle Petitjean, looking back on a friendship woven of respect
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Mar 23, 20233 min read
Help me to translate my last book "Michael Jackson, black or white ?" in english !
fund dedicated to the translation of I. Petitjean's latest book on Michael Jackson, black or white? outsanding artist vs racialized industry
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 13, 20215 min read
Gary, Indiana, and Michael Jackson
From Gary, Indiana, to Michael Jackson, the entrails of a dizzying trajectory I truly believe that you should go to Gary once in your...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 9, 20214 min read
Going back to Indiana, Michael Jackson and Gary
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #12 Gary, Blanket, Katherine and... always, the smart team of mister Randomness Jackson......
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 27, 20216 min read
Michael Jackson, don't trust appearances
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #8 "Appearances are enough to make a world" Jean Anouilh In this summer of 2021, I leave...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 23, 20214 min read
Michael Jackson, believe in your dreams
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #7 "You can always dream, and your dreams will come true. But you HAVE TO make them come...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 16, 20213 min read
Michael Jackson, one Voice, one Everything
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #5 The most difficult thing, when I had to go to university with my thesis project on...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 13, 20212 min read
When Michael Jackson unites people in a smile...
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #4 I was walking along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice the other night. In the middle of...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 4, 20214 min read
Michael Jackson, a star to believe in?
12 years following your voice #3 I had spent the summer stunned. Everything was spinning in my head to the point that I was afraid, at...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 1, 20214 min read
How Michael Jackson became a part of our life ?
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #2 “Proofs weary the truth” Georges Braque There are certitudes, no, evidences, which...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 26, 20212 min read
Michael Jackson didn't die on 25 June...
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #1 Twelve years ago, like many of you, I woke up unaware that I was living the first day...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 27, 20198 min read
Michael Jackson, 10 years later...
June 2019. Somewhere in Absurdia, time to review With the end of June comes the time of assessment... With the 10th anniversary of...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jan 25, 20161 min read
"Make your dream devour your life so that life does not devour your dream" Emilie Jolie
Before learning the meaning of the word "impossible", all little girls should be able to realize their first dream... Because it is the...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jan 11, 20164 min read
From King David (Bowie) to the King of Pop, Michael (Jackson)
Since this morning, I've been listening to the radios paying tribute to Bowie. The critics, the journalists, the musicians... and always...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 12, 20144 min read
Michael Jackson, the cornerstone
"Show me the stone the builders rejected. This is the cornerstone." St. Thomas No, this is not this Sunday's sermon. But this phrase from...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 25, 20126 min read
Is Michael Jackson still really unavoidable? What legacy didi he left us?
Answer to the previous post about notions that sometimes make people react in an epidermic way... This "mood post" is not a scientific...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 25, 20128 min read
On the pop of the King and Michael Jackson's artistic legacy, unity, plurality, posterity
Why would Michael Jackson be an artist more essential than the others, more striking than his peers, more innovative than other Kings and...
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