Episode 67 – Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands

Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On An Academic Conversation

Abstract: In episode 67, Karin and Elizabeth go back to the first essay published in the journal: Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands, The Immortal Personas Of Michael Jackson. They discuss the origins, the need to write this and why it was important to revisit this essay.

REFERENCE AS:

Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 67 – ‘Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands’, Michael Jackson’s Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 10, no. 4 (2023). Published electronically 21/03/2023. https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/episode-67-throwing-stones-to-hide-your-hands

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Episode 67– Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands
By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu

Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’. Find out more about Karin here.

Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is the editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here.

References

• Elizabeth Amisu, “‘Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands’: The Mortal Persona Of Michael Jackson’, The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies vol.1, issue 1 (June 2014).
• Elizabeth Amisu, ‘Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands Revisited, The Journal Of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, vol.4, issue (September 2017).
• Elizabeth Amisu, The Dangerous Philosophies Of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and his Artistic Afterlife (Preager 2016).
• Elizabeth Amisu, ‘The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage‘, ed. Isabelle Petitjean, Nakan Journal, issue 2 (2022).

Elizabeth Amisu, Handwritten notes for Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands