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, 2023
- 3 min
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 14, 2021
- 5 min
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 10, 2021
- 4 min
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 28, 2021
- 6 min
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 24, 2021
- 4 min
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 17, 2021
- 3 min
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 14, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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 28, 2019
- 8 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
"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, 2016
- 4 min
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 13, 2014
- 4 min
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 26, 2012
- 6 min
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 26, 2012
- 8 min
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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