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American entertainer Michael Jackson, who is known as the "King of Pop", is considered one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time. He had an unparalleled influence all over the world through his musical, dance, fashion and humanitarian contributions.

As a child singing prodigy, Jackson joined his older siblings at age 5 in The Jackson 5. That youthful Michael Jackson familiarized a generation of young White music fans with the validity this Black artist's contributions to music. Those fans would say that his contribution is important. Thus, he helped interrupt the conveyance of racial bias from earlier generations. As a prominent Black youngster beloved to a subset of a young generation of Americans, his greatest contribution to all future generations is to have helped dismantled Black-White racial prejudice. These early influences upon a young generation of music enthusiasts, in their formative years, to effect an undermining of the prevalent racial bias is perhaps worthy of further research.

In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular culture and the first African American entertainer to have a strong crossover fan base on Music Television (MTV). His music videos, including those for "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from his 1982 album Thriller, are credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame.

On June 28, 2009, in a Baltimore Sun article titled "7 Ways Michael Jackson Changed The World", Jill Rosen wrote that Jackson's legacy was "as enduring as it is multi-faceted", influencing fields including sound, dance, fashion, music videos and celebrity. On December 19, 2014, the British Council of Cultural Relations named Jackson's life one of the 80 most important cultural moments that shaped the world. In 2010, two university librarians found that Jackson's influence extended to academia, with references to Jackson in reports concerning music, popular culture, chemistry and an array of other topics.

Cultural and social impact

Ben Beaumont-Thomas, music editor of The Guardian, stated that Jackson ushered in a global culture, writing: "We'll get to the music and dance, but perhaps his most astonishing achievement is his fame: he was the subject of global adulation, even in areas previously untouched by Western pop culture." Tony Sclafani from MSNBC stated that "there was a time when Jackson was thought of primarily as a groundbreaking artist, not a celebrity oddball. That time was 1983, when Jackson’s omnipresence on the pop charts was revolutionary because no African-American artist had ever achieved that high a level of success. Jackson earned his pop icon status by creating music that transcended genres; he also redefined the roles of music videos and dancing in popular music".

In United States

In a 2015 Rolling Stone article titled "Michael Jackson: Black Superhero", Touré wrote:

Many blacks now compare Michael with Barack Obama – perhaps the highest possible compliment in black America. Not only are they both integrationists and racial harmonists, but they both were determined to reach the top while refusing to let race hold them back. "There are so many components of why Barack Obama is president" says Diddy ,"and Michael Jackson is one of them. He started a change in the perception of the African-American male on a worldwide level: his strength, always putting himself in a powerposition, being seen as a hero." Al Sharpton echoes the point. "Way before Tiger Woods or Barack Obama, Michael made black people go pop-culture global" he says. "You had people in France, South America and Iowa comfortable with their kids imitating a black kid from Gary, Indiana. And when some of those people in Iowa grew, they were comfortable with voting for Barack Obama because they got comfortable imitating a black kid named Michael Jackson when they were young. Obama is a phenomenon, but he's the result of a process that Michael helped America graduate to.

Fashion

As a fashion pioneer, Jackson was the man who gave new meaning to moonwalking, immortalised solitary, sparkly gloves, initiated the trophy jacket trend in the Eighties and was brave enough to coupledress with Madonna on the red carpet..Just as his music and dancing have influenced today's young artists,from Justin Timberlake to Chris Brown,Jacksons style has also an imapct on many artists as well.The power of his determinedly idiosyncratic style was amplified by MTV, which beamed "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" around the world and made him its first Fashion Icon. Teenagers wanted what he had, taking break-dance lessons and wearing bow ties and single rhinestone gloves to school.

See also

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• Michael Jackson-related games
• List of artists influenced by Michael Jackson
• Michael Jackson impersonator

References

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2. "Michael Jackson's generous legacy - latimes". articles.latimes.com. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
3. Yardley, Jonathan (August 30, 1993). "Nothing More Than ... Feelings". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 10, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
4. Day, Elizabeth (March 8, 2009). "Off the wall but still invincible". London: The Guardian. Retrieved March 10, 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
5. Rosen, Jill (June 28, 2009). "7 Ways Michael Jackson Changed The World". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
6. "80 moments that shaped the world". British Council. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
7. Chandler, Cory (May 20, 2010). "Librarians Prove Michael Jackson Was a Rock Star in Academic Literature". Texas Tech University. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
8. Hidalgo & Weiner 2010, pp. 14–28.
9. Hidalgo & Weiner 2010, p. 25.
10. "Michael Jackson: Five years after his death, how his influence lives on | Music | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
11. By Tony Sclafani. "Jackson changed course of music, society - TODAY.com". today.com. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
12. Touré (June 26, 2014). "Michael Jackson: Black Superhero". Rolling Stone.
13. http://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/michael-jacksons-style-26062009</
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