26 June, 2009
R.I.P.
Pop star Michael Jackson dead: Report
Reuters
Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:17pm
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and set the world dancing to exuberant rhythms for decades, died on Thursday, TMZ website reported. He was 50.
There was no official confirmation of the reported death and spokespersons for Jackson could not be reached for comment.
"We've just learned Michael Jackson has died," TMZ said.
"Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back," the entertainment site said.
It added, "A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived."Earlier, the Los Angeles Times said the singer had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by fire department paramedics who found him not breathing when they arrived at the singer's home.
The newspaper said paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene before taking him to the UCLA Medical Center hospital.
Jackson had been due to start a series of comeback concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The singer, whose hits included "Thriller" and "Billie Jean," had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past two months.
The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.
His lifetime record sales tally is believed to be around 750 million, which, added to the 13 Grammy Awards he received, makes him one of the most successful entertainers of all time.
He lived as a virtual recluse since his acquittal in 2005 on charges of child molestation.
There were concerns about Jackson's health in recent years but the promoters of the London shows, AEG Live, said in March that Jackson had passed a 4-1/2 hour physical examination with independent doctors.
CHILD STAR TO MEGASTAR
Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, the seventh of nine children. Five Jackson boys -- Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael -- first performed together at a talent show when Michael was 6. They walked off with first prize and went on to become a best-selling band, The Jackson Five, and then The Jackson 5.
Jackson made his first solo album in 1972, and released "Thriller" in 1982, which became a smash hit that yielded seven top-10 singles. The album sold 21 million copies in the United States and at least 27 million worldwide.
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Reuters
Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:17pm
By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and set the world dancing to exuberant rhythms for decades, died on Thursday, TMZ website reported. He was 50.
There was no official confirmation of the reported death and spokespersons for Jackson could not be reached for comment.
"We've just learned Michael Jackson has died," TMZ said.
"Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back," the entertainment site said.
It added, "A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived."Earlier, the Los Angeles Times said the singer had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by fire department paramedics who found him not breathing when they arrived at the singer's home.
The newspaper said paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene before taking him to the UCLA Medical Center hospital.
Jackson had been due to start a series of comeback concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The singer, whose hits included "Thriller" and "Billie Jean," had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past two months.
The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.
His lifetime record sales tally is believed to be around 750 million, which, added to the 13 Grammy Awards he received, makes him one of the most successful entertainers of all time.
He lived as a virtual recluse since his acquittal in 2005 on charges of child molestation.
There were concerns about Jackson's health in recent years but the promoters of the London shows, AEG Live, said in March that Jackson had passed a 4-1/2 hour physical examination with independent doctors.
CHILD STAR TO MEGASTAR
Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana, the seventh of nine children. Five Jackson boys -- Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael -- first performed together at a talent show when Michael was 6. They walked off with first prize and went on to become a best-selling band, The Jackson Five, and then The Jackson 5.
Jackson made his first solo album in 1972, and released "Thriller" in 1982, which became a smash hit that yielded seven top-10 singles. The album sold 21 million copies in the United States and at least 27 million worldwide.
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25 June, 2009
Youth subcultures as a response (symbolic resistance) to oppression
In the 1960's, a group of Marxist academics at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham suggested that youth subcultures constituted the way in which different classes of young people manifested their opposition to the dominant social-cultural order. As they argued, youth subcultures enter into struggle with the dominant order, and indeed, they 'seek to modify, negotiate, resist or even overthrow its reign - its hegemony'. Hence, 'all-youth subcultural phenomena, whether in the realm of style [mods, scooters, teddy boys, punks, rockers, etc.] or of action (riots, hooliganism) can be read as "symbolic", "displaced"... manifestations of the class struggle and the contradictions of capitalism'.
(See S. Hall and T. Jefferson (1993), Resistance Through Rituals-Youth Subcultures in Post War Britain, London and New York: Routledge. First published in 1975 as Working Papers in Cultural Studies no. 7/8)
[Youth]'...subcultures are made up of youth dissatisfied with the mainstream adult world who seek to carve out their own niche. They offer disadvantaged youth symbolic resistance to oppression, an alternative lifestyle, a "cultural space" through which to challenge dominant values, meaningful leisure time and solutions to existential dilemmas'
(See Brake in R. Haenfler (2006), Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-living Youth and Social Change, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press).
The Emo Subculture
The Goth Subculture
The Skinhead Subculture
The Punk Subculture
The Hippie Subculture
The Teddy Boy Subculture
The Mod Subculture
The Rocker Subculture
(See S. Hall and T. Jefferson (1993), Resistance Through Rituals-Youth Subcultures in Post War Britain, London and New York: Routledge. First published in 1975 as Working Papers in Cultural Studies no. 7/8)
[Youth]'...subcultures are made up of youth dissatisfied with the mainstream adult world who seek to carve out their own niche. They offer disadvantaged youth symbolic resistance to oppression, an alternative lifestyle, a "cultural space" through which to challenge dominant values, meaningful leisure time and solutions to existential dilemmas'
(See Brake in R. Haenfler (2006), Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-living Youth and Social Change, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press).
The Emo Subculture
The Goth Subculture
The Skinhead Subculture
The Punk Subculture
The Hippie Subculture
The Teddy Boy Subculture
The Mod Subculture
The Rocker Subculture
01 June, 2009
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