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How Michael Jackson's Complicated Legacy Impacts The Family's Music

Writer Jody Rosen explores the question: Can we separate Michael Jackson from the Jacksons?
The Jackson brothers — Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael and Randy — in London in 1972. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Music is hard to cancel.

That’s the sentiment from writer Jody Rosen, who says even when you don’t summon music, it’s everywhere — from cars blasting tunes with the open window to grocery stores and restaurants.

Rosen recently explored the intersection of music and accountability for The Los Angeles Times after the re-release this year of . Almost every genre of music and dance has been influenced by Michael Jackson, the trailblazer of the group that

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