About This Author
Joseph Vogel is an Assistant Professor at Merrimack College. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson, James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era, and This Thing Called Life: Prince, Race, Sex, Religion, and Music.
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