Martin Iddon is Professor of Music and Aesthetics and Head of School at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Melanie L. Marshall is a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow, a visiting scholar at New York University, USA, and a musicologist at University College Cork, Ireland.
The 12 essays in the volume demonstrate not only that Lady Gaga's work can be read in a number of different ways, but that there are many aspects of her music, persona, and cultural impact worth examining. Essays in the volume also do an excellent job of situating Gaga in a variety of cultural contexts...[they] work together to form a complete, nuanced look at not only Gaga's music, performances, and videos, but her role in popular culture...the volume provides scholars hoping to better understand Gaga's place in popular culture with a rich collection of essays to draw from. --Molly Brost, University of Southern Indiana, Popular Music and Society