Lady Gaga and 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, and contributing to popular musicology, film studies, queer studies, popular culture studies, and the burgeoning sub-discipline of aesthetics, philosophy of fashion. It visits both to pop cultural debates on the status of intertextuality, held in tension with originality, and to debates in women's and gender studies on the figuring of the sexualized female body.

"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 culturethe 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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I. Gaga's Contexts 1. 'I'l bring you down, down, down': Lady Gaga's performance in 'Judas' Stan Hawkins 2. Not a Piece of Meat: Lady Gaga and that Dress. Has Radical Feminism Survived the Journey? Lucy O'Brien 3. Her Own Real Thing: Lady Gaga and the Haus of Fashion Sally Gray and Anusha Rutnam 4. Who's calling? Telephone songs, Female Vocal Empowerment, and Signification Lisa Colton 5. Lady Gaga and the Drop: Eroticism High and Low Paul Hegarty 6. Celebrity without Organs Craig N. Owens Part II. Gaga and Representaion 7. Celebrity, Spectacle and Surveillance: Understanding Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi' and 'Telephone' through Music, Image, and Movement Lori Burns and Marc LaFrance 8. Storytelling on the Ledge: 'Telephone' and 'Paparazzi' Carol Vernallis 9. Television Gaga: Lady Gaga, Glee, and Popular Music's Place on the Small Screen Simon Warner 10. Starstruck: On Gaga, Voice, and Disability Alexandra Apolloni 11. Trans/Affect: Monstrous Masculinities and the Sublime Art of Lady Gaga Theresa L. Geller 12. Consuming Gaga Melanie L. Marshall Supplement Martin Iddon