#michael cashmore

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My Three Dads!!!

[zoeflake]

Nature and Organisation - Death in a Snow Leopard Winter

[neovolkisch]

For me this is the greatest Neofolk album produced to date. Everything about it, from the composition to the flow of the music is perfect and it features some of the greatest musicans of the genre.

[gacougnol]

The Sword Becomes A Shield (Symphony Number 1) from Michael Cashmore

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

<3

[schroettner]

song of the day: “withdraw the sword of mirrors: i” by michael cashmore. file under: modern classical. the whole album “the sword becomes a shield (symphony number 1)“ is so incredibly beautiful.

[androgynemj]

Academic Works on Michael Jackson: A Reading List

Books

General:

Amisu, E. (2017). The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson : His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Greenwood.

Cashmore, E. (2022). The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson. Bloomsbury.

Race, Racial Politics, and Blackness:

Pinder, S. O. (2021). Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity. State University of New York Press.

Manning, H. J. (2016). Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask. Routledge.

Anthropology:

Ostaszewska, A. (2021). Michael Jackson as a Mythological Hero. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Articles/Essays

Gender and Queerness:

Izod, J. (1995). Androgyny and Stardom: Cultural Meanings of Michael Jackson. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 14(3), 63–74.

Vogel, J. (2018). Freaks in the Reagan Era: Androgyny and the American Ideal of Manhood. In James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era (pp. 49–68). University of Illinois Press.

Fast, S. (2010). Difference that Exceeded Understanding: Remembering Michael Jackson (1958–2009). Popular Music & Society, 33(2), 259–266.

Fast, S. (2012). Michael Jackson’s Queer Musical Belongings. Popular Music and Society, 35(2), 281–300.

Manning, H. J. (2016). The Burden of Ambiguity. In Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask (pp. 137-165). Routledge.

Bruhm, S. (2009). Michael Jackson’s Queer Funk. In W. Hughes & A. Smith (Ed.), Queering the Gothic (pp. 158-176). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Race, Racial Politics, and Blackness:

Amisu, E. (2017). Recontextualizing Michael Jackson’s Blackness. In The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson : His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (pp. 87-94). Greenwood.

Pinder, S. O. (2021). Michael Jackson and Racial Identification. In Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity (pp. 63-89). State University of New York Press.

Pochmara, A. & Wierzchowska, J. (2017). Nobody Knows My Name: The Masquerade of Mourning in the Early 1980s Artistic Productions of Michael Jackson and Prince. Open Cultural Studies, 1(1), 628-645.

Wallace, M. (1989). Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms, and ‘The Ecstasy of Communication’. Third Text, 3(7), 11–22.

Cultural Criticism:

Silberman, S. C. (2007). Presenting Michael Jackson™. Social Semiotics, 17(4), 417–440.

Juan, D. D. (1996). The Celebrity Freak: Michael Jackson's ‘Grotesque Glory’. In Thomson, R.G. (Ed.), Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (pp. 368-384). New York University Press.

Kooijman, J. (2013). We Are the World: America’s Dominance in Global Pop Culture. In Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture - Revised Edition (pp. 23–42). Amsterdam University Press.

Musicology:

Stegner-Petitjean, I. (2011). ‘The Voice in the Mirror’: Michael Jackson: From a Vocal Identity to its Double in Sound. Volume!, 8(2), 222-253.

Amisu, E. (2017). “Instrument of Nature”: The Voice of Michael Jackson. In The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson : His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (pp. 59-65). Greenwood.

Roberts, M. (2011). Michael Jackson’s Kingdom: Music, Race, and the Sound of the Mainstream. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 23(1), 19-39.

Amisu, E. (2017). Narrative in Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’. In The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson : His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (pp. 31-39). Greenwood.

Performance Studies:

Hamera, J. (2012). The Labors of Michael Jackson: Virtuosity, Deindustrialization, and Dancing Work. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 127(4), 751–765.

Media Studies:

Mercer, K. (1986). Monster Metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. Screen, 27(1), 26-43.

[weirdlookindog]

Nature and Organisation feat. Rose McDowall - Wicker Man Song (Willow's Song)

[nicoverhaegen]

Milk of Lime 'Dozen'

“The fly is marking a mundane and uninvited companion of our human life. Its sudden appearance evokes a strange sense of familiarity while carrying heavy symbolism for our fleeting existence. It is an animal on the fine line between revulsion and beauty. Portraying the black iridescent body of this seemingly profane insect repels and attracts the eye equally and is forgotten with one incidental gesture of our hand.” A huge thank you to everyone who was involved in the making of this show. Your support means the world to us

Models in order of appearance: Lotta, Lisa-Marie, Augustina, Frederik, Daria, Lea, Kingsley, Martin, Soleil, Vanessa, Jonathan, Lafayette, Jonte, Anna, Subin, Laura, Luca, Artyom, Thalo, Polina

Creative Direction: Julia Ballardt & Nico Verhaegen

Styling: Charlotte Buchal

Casting: Moritz Alte

Soundtrack: Adriaan De Roover

Camera operator: Leon Moss

Choreography & Runway: Rozalie Klimesova

MAKE-UP TEAM (Tools provided by ELLIS FAAS)

Lead: Jenneke Croubels

1st assistant: Maria Ovejero

Assistants: Naomzz, Samantha Pottmaier, Darja Crainiucenco, Eva Herbohn, Mai Anh

HAIR TEAM (Products: Balmain Hair Couture)

Lead: Sanne Schoofs 1st assistant: Robbe Vermaeten

Assistants: Evara Collin, Liesbeth Cobbaert, Sinan Salihovic, Eavan Derbyshire, Taiga

BACKSTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY Kaj Lehner, Oriane Verstraeten, Lucinde Wahlen, Theresa Huber, Saeeda Shabbir, Lewin Berninger, Kevin Duong, Hieronymus Ahrens & Eva Weinkötz

Ceramic Jewelry: 3sechzig

Floral Styling: Studio Linné

Special thanks to: Viktoria Ballardt Sanne Schoofs Robbe Vermaeten Jenneke Croubels Maria Ovejero Moritz Alte Charlotte Buchal Adriaan de Roover Michael Cashmore Thomas Maria Stoehr Pauline Moos Kaj Lehner Oriane Verstraeten Lucinde Wahlen Kerstin Geffert Sara Springer Eva Weinkötz Marie Giselbrecht Alexis Mersman Jana Heinemann Bavo Verhaegen Lauren Bouden Alex Weinkötz Julia Geissler aka 3sechzig Daniel Ohlhäuser Larissa Ballardt Annick Peeters Gery Verhaegen Amina Shabbir Manuela Garcia Daimy Van Caudenberg Jacob Griffith Moritz Schlesinger Nicklas Jendryke Eva Degols Lalo Gonzales Victoria Huisman Zoë Derks Kim Peers Frederik Lovric Liederley Sasha Yatsiuk Maurice Thys Nele Visschers Doron Beuns Magdalena Balkowski & the Zeiss Großplanetarium Team Andreas Baßler Thijs Faas & the Ellis Faas team Balmain Hair Couture Scott Lipinski Christiane Arp Stefan Brunner & the FCG team Elke Timmerman Jasmien Wynants Polina Gribanova Rozalie Klimesova Lisa-Marie Krakehl Emma Krakehl Pia Ulrich (…)

[possible-streetwear]

[aqua-regia009]

As I descended with the Dogs Blood Rising, so then I ascended to the Thunder Perfect Mind. Great grey bloodspeckled slabs of slate have fallen - this is my vision in the croaking jeering world: All idiotic faces and swollen hearts; in the papers the faces are not real, in the world the faces are not real - but in the Heart of the Hearts the Face is real. The dead die abroad, the crows fly, the wolves fly, and four poorly painted cardboard horsemen sheet over the back of the winds They are not legion - but close God walked on Earth in those days. Now, still, in my Hearts He walks still In the green fields far away there is a solid tree (mother and the Sign she makes). On the brokenhorse zodiac signs, yellow face passes (All the Rainbow her arms were...). All books piled up in dirty heaps, craterlike surface, pitted - Oh, bellissima - Largherana - if the seahorse was golden, colden... and talking back the bloody streams of God's own Pain: "Why should we have compassion for others, when God Himself has had no pity... on others?" "Take back the bloodspeech", she said to me... Certain colours came from her body; she is alone! God walked on Earth in those days. Now, still, in my Hearts He walks still And the brokenface of this horizoned world is covered by crystalcross ice. And the brokenface of this horizoned world is covered by crystalcross ice... when this whole wide eyeless world sighs, this eyeless world sighs... All the stars are souls each single planet is the lifeflame of the nothingy eternally spark. I cannot believe despite the evidence of one Godeye and one pooreye that this world is God's own bloodred grassgreen blueblack skypied Paradise. When I lay in the arms of one woman I said to her silent: "You will be forever mine though You go as You shall though You diediedie. Sleep as You shall die I shall love You always between Your bodies. I pray that I shall be forever Thine. If I say to You Love then Listen You should be crowned above all." God walked on Earth in those days. Now still, in my Hearts He walks still Bloodstreamruns by Nature And Organisation Written by Michael Cashmore & David Tibet From "Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude" (1994) Folk / Experimental / Poetry

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Wa wa wee wa!!!

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Current 93 - A Sad Sadness Song