Kylie Minogue : Critical Insights into Pop Music and Media Celebrity / edited by Stephen O'Neill and Maria Pramaggiore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Neill, Stephen, editor.

Pramaggiore, Maria, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minogue, Kylie,.

Minogue, Kylie.

Popular culture--Australia.

Popular culture.

Popular music--Australia.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This pioneering study provides a critical appraisal of pop star Kylie Minogue. It argues that a study of this mononymous global pop icon and celebrity - as "Kylie," she takes her place alongside Cher, Madonna and Beyoncé in the pop pantheon - is long overdue. Written by academics, music practitioners, and fans, this book argues that Minogue's persona, performances and reception provide new critical insights into contemporary pop music culture, digital media, and celebrity. It further argues that dismissals of Kylie underestimate her accomplishments as a pop artist and singer-songwriter and undermine fans of pop music who form deep, affective bonds with performers, songs and albums. Contributors draw on current perspectives in pop music studies, feminism, celebrity studies, fandom, and queer studies, a range revealing that to interpret Kylie is to engage compelling cultural frameworks. Across four parts (Pop Girlhood, Global Kylie, Dance Music, and Queer and Online Fandoms) the book demonstrates how Minogue herself makes important interventions into contemporary popular culture, with her career providing a micro-history of pop music, its myriad cultural meanings, and its fan practices. With this collection, Kylie Minogue studies has arrived.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Kylie and Her Lovers: Performance, Celebrity and Fandom Stephen O'Neill (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maria Pramaggiore (Appalachian State University, USA) I: Pop Girlhood 1. The 'Aussie' Next Door: Neighbours, Charlene, and Kylie's 'Ocker' Origins Joanna McIntyre McIntyre (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and Anthea Taylor (University of Sydney, Australia) 2. Performing White Girlhood: Kylie Minogue's Pop Persona in the 1980s Laura Watson (Maynooth University, Ireland) II: Global Kylie 3. Excuse My French: Kylie, Cosmopolitanism and Creative Autonomy Drago Momcilovic (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 4. The Golden Girl Next Door: Transmedia Celebrations of Kylie's 50th Ruth A Deller (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 5. From Reddy's Roar to Kylie's Padam: Relational Celebrity and Feminist Camp Maria Pramaggiore (Appalachian State University, USA) III: Dance Music: Disco, House, Remix 6. 'I Wanna Go Out Dancing': Disco and the Performative Persona of Kylie Minogue Lee Barron (Northumbria University, UK) 7. From Underground to Mainstream: Kylie Minogue and French House Sébastien Lebray (University of Strasbourg, France) 8. Can't Get You Out Of My Web: Remixing Kylie as Digital Creative Practice Claire Fitch (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland) IV: Queer and Online Fandoms: Performing Kylie 9. Camping Up a Pop Princess: Kylie Minogue and Gay Iconicity Páraic Kerrigan (University College Dublin, Ireland) 10. #PadamPadam: The Affective Spaces of Kylie Minogue's Digital Media Fandoms Stephen O'Neill (Maynooth University, Ireland) 11. Against Interpretation (after Kylie) Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK) Index

ISBN:

9798765103777

OCLC:

1430658722