Lady Gaga and Popular Music

Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture

Martin Iddon, Melanie Marshall

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Routledge
14 January 2014

Politics & government

Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music

"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."

Edited by: Martin Iddon, Melanie Marshall
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9780415824521
ISBN 10: 0415824524
Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 14 January 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture

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