Stanley Cavell Meets the King of Pop

19.03.2010

Amir Khan takes Stanley Cavell’s comments on Fred Astaire as a starting point to approach Michael Jackson in an illuminating essay. Khan grapples with questions like these:

Then why dance? Is a Fred Astaire or Michael Jackson proto-walk a search for the ordinary? If so, then what need have we for extraordinary dance (or language) in the first place?