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The performance identities of Lady Gaga : critical essays / edited by Richard J. Gray II.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.L185 P47 2012
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Gray, Richard J., 1971-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lady Gaga--Criticism and interpretation.
Lady Gaga.
Popular music--United States--2001-2010--History and criticism.
Popular music.
Popular music--United States--2011-2020--History and criticism.
Popular music--Political aspects--United States.
Gender identity in music.
Popular music--Political aspects.
Criticism and interpretation.
United States.
Physical Description:
vi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2012]
Summary:
"Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gaga's body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Sex of Lady Gaga / Mathieu Deflem
Lady Gaga's bodies : buying and selling The fame monster / Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Body language and "bad romance" : the visual rhetoric of the artist / Jennifer M. Santos
What a drag : Lady Gaga, Jo Calderone and the politics of representation / Heather Duerre Humann
Follow the glitter way : Lady Gaga and camp / Katrin Horn
Lady Gaga and the wolf : "Little Red Riding Hood," The fame monster and female sexuality / Jennifer M. Woolston
Surrealism, and the theatre of cruelty and Lady Gaga / Richard J. Gray II
Rabelais meets Vogue : the construction of carnival, beauty and grotesque / David Annandale
Fame monster : the monstrous construction of Lady Gaga / Ann T. Torrusio
Appropriation of the Madonna aesthetic / Rebecca M. Lush
Performing pop : Lady Gaga, "Weird Al" Yankovic and parodied performance / Matthew R. Turner
"I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon" : shock performance and human rights / Karley Adney
Whiteness and the politics of "post-racial" America / Laura Gray-Rosendale ... [et al.].
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
ISBN:
9780786468300
0786468300
OCLC:
779876981

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