Lady Gaga and Popular Music Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture [Hardcover]

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 shapedirectly and indirectlythought 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, womens studies, gender studies, disability studies, popular culture studies, and the burgeoning sub-discipline of aesthetics and philosophy of fashion.

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. Whos 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. OwensPart Ilc®