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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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 17, 20213 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 14, 20212 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 4, 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 1, 20214 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 26, 20212 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 28, 20198 min read


Michael Jackson's Bad, another look at a mythical video
"Bad": Edmund Perry, African Americans and the educational issue The video script for Bad, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 12, 20189 min read


On the claim to know Michael Jackson
There are comments that reflect the narrowness of view. And I still find it hard to understand that one can have such a narrow,...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 20, 20163 min read


Michael Jackson, Prince and medias
Open letter to the press, an objective and verifiable source of information 22 April 2016 Ladies and Gentlemen of the professional press,...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Apr 22, 20165 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jan 25, 20161 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jan 11, 20164 min read


The financial, political, historical and racial impact of Michael Jackson's success
To say or read that Thriller is a historical success is a truism. To read or say that "We Are the World" was an event is another obvious...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Feb 14, 20154 min read


Michael Jackson, They Don't Care About Us
Michael Jackson's They don't Care About Us or an aspect (among others...) of the interpretation and the political appropriation of an...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jan 26, 20158 min read


Michael Jackson, inheritor of the Minstrels and instigator of a new blackface
Foreword The blackface was a street show that later led to the Minstrel, which consisted in seeing whites with blackened faces parodying...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jan 2, 20155 min read


Prayer
The snow crunched under my feet The cold air stung my face The sky was pink on the horizon... baby pink... hope pink... And these words...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Dec 28, 20142 min read


On difficulties to find a publisher to talk about Michael Jackson's work
"As for your book on "Dangerous", you have to give up on the big publishers: they don't support such books, unless you write that MJ is a...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Nov 27, 20143 min read


One decade later, They (still) really don't care about them, Michael!
The news seems to fall from the moon concerning the precarious situation of a good part of Brazil and some districts of Rio, behind the...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 13, 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...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 13, 20144 min read


Michael Jackson's "Xscape"
Michael Jackson, The truth about these posthumous editions? Which truth(s)? Because it seems to me, from the outset, that it is in the...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
May 18, 20148 min read


Michael Jackson versus Charlie Chaplin
We often talk about the fascination that Michael Jackson had for Charlie Chaplin. We often see photos in which he repeats his postures,...
Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
May 15, 20146 min read
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