Lady Gaga And Popular Music

Author : Martin Iddon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113407994X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga and Popular Music written by Martin Iddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, art, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volumes devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central to both popular (and, indeed, populist) as well as more scholarly thought in these areas and who, the contributors argue, is helping to shape—directly and indirectly—thought and culture both in the fields of the "scholarly" and the "everyday." Lady Gaga's output is firmly embedded in a self-consciously intellectual pop culture tradition, and her music videos are intertextually linked to icons of pop culture intelligentsia like Alfred Hitchcock and open to multiple interpretations. In examining her music and figure, this volume contributes both to debates on the status of intertextuality, held in tension with originality, and to debates on the figuring of the sexualized female body, and representations of disability. There is interest in these issues from a wide range of disciplines: popular musicology, film studies, queer studies, women’s studies, gender studies, disability studies, popular culture studies, and the burgeoning sub-discipline of aesthetics and philosophy of fashion.

Author : Martin Iddon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134079877
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga and Popular Music written by Martin Iddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, art, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volumes devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central to both popular (and, indeed, populist) as well as more scholarly thought in these areas and who, the contributors argue, is helping to shape—directly and indirectly—thought and culture both in the fields of the "scholarly" and the "everyday." Lady Gaga's output is firmly embedded in a self-consciously intellectual pop culture tradition, and her music videos are intertextually linked to icons of pop culture intelligentsia like Alfred Hitchcock and open to multiple interpretations. In examining her music and figure, this volume contributes both to debates on the status of intertextuality, held in tension with originality, and to debates on the figuring of the sexualized female body, and representations of disability. There is interest in these issues from a wide range of disciplines: popular musicology, film studies, queer studies, women’s studies, gender studies, disability studies, popular culture studies, and the burgeoning sub-discipline of aesthetics and philosophy of fashion.

Author : Yassin Labouiti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga written by Yassin Labouiti and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Gaga is an American singer-songwriter and performer best known for her flamboyant outfits, provocative lyrics, and powerful vocal abilities. Her songs "Just Dance," "Bad Romance," and "Born This Way" have gained tremendous mainstream popularity. She began learning music at a young age and by the time she was a teenager, she was playing onstage in New York City clubs. She attended Manhattan's Convent of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls academy, before going on to study music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She spent two years at Tisch before dropping out to pursue her own career. She started transforming herself from Germanotta into Lady Gaga after dropping out, with a style that mixed glam rock and over-the-top fashion design. She and Lady Starlight, a performance artist, created the Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow in 2007. Lady Gaga, who has written songs for Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls, and Britney Spears, was signed by Akon and Interscope Records in the same year and started working on her debut album, The Fame, which was released in 2008.

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761381538
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga written by Matt Doeden and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the career of Stefani Germanotta, aka Lady Gaga, and her public social activism.

Author : Mathieu Deflem
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137584688
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame written by Mathieu Deflem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an empirical examination of the social conditions that informed Lady Gaga’s rise to fame. The book delves into topics such as the marketing of Lady Gaga; the legal issues that have dogged her career; the media; her audience; her activism; issues of sex, gender, and sexuality; and Lady Gaga’s unique artistry. By training a spotlight on this singular pop icon, Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame invites readers to consider the nature of stardom in an age of celebrity.

Author : Katie Marsico
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1614786003
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga: Pop Singer & Songwriter written by Katie Marsico and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the fascinating life of Lady Gaga. Readers will learn about Lady Gaga's childhood, family, education, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text that explores Lady Gaga's early interest in music that led to the release of her albums The Fame, The Fame Monster, and Born This Way, her Grammy Awards, her philanthropic efforts toward the gay and lesbian community and raising awareness about HIV/AIDS, and her unique style. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected bibliography, Web links, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Richard J. Gray II
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649252X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga written by Richard J. Gray II and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and cover topics such as gender and sexuality, body commodification, visual body rhetoric, drag performance, homosexuality and heteronormativity, Surrealism and the theatre of cruelty, the carnivalesque, monstrosity, imitation and parody, human rights, and racial politics. Of particular interest is the way that Lady Gaga's œuvre, however popular, strange, raw or controversial, enters into the larger sociopolitical discourse, challenging the status quo and altering our perceptions of reality.

Author : Emily Herbert
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843582082
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Gaga written by Emily Herbert and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen of Pop, superstar, maverick, fashionista, Lady Gaga is one of the most recognisable and sensational pop stars for a generation. A true original, Gaga found fame the hard way, playing the grimy bars and burlesque shows of New York City, before finally relocating to Los Angeles to begin work on what would become her debut album The Fame. Constantly en vogue and always in the public eye, this is the biography of the rise and rise of Gaga, from her early life as a teenage protege, to her life as one of the most respected musicians and most recognised entertainers on the planet.

Author : Mark Mussari
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1608709272
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Life and Music from Elvis Presley to Lady Gaga written by Mark Mussari and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series consultant and author Mark Mussari takes readers on a journey from the beginnings of rock and roll and the nascent youth culture of the 1950s and 1960s through the materialistic years of the 1980s into the still-being-defined early twenty-first century. In this fascinating book, this record of the ever-changing world of American culture is highlighted with a fabulous variety of photographs from the last six decades.

Author : Bethany Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150133932X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling Out written by Bethany Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between popular music and consumer brands has never been so cosy. Product placement abounds in music videos, popular music provides the soundtrack to countless commercials, social media platforms offer musicians tools for perpetual promotion, and corporate-sponsored competitions lure aspiring musicians to vie for exposure. Activities that once attracted charges of 'selling out' are now considered savvy, or even ordinary, strategies for artists to be heard and make a living. What forces have encouraged musicians to become willing partners of consumer brands? At what cost? And how do changes in popular music culture reflect broader trends of commercialization? Selling Out traces the evolution of 'selling out' debates in popular music culture and considers what might be lost when the boundary between culture and commerce is dismissed as a relic.