Madonna's drowned worlds : new approaches to her cultural transformations, 1983-2003 / edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens.

Other author Fouz-Hernández, Santiago, editor.
Other author Jarman-Ivens, Freya, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.
Descriptionxxii, 223 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAshgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series. ^A512613
Contents Who's that girl? -- Introduction: Re-invention? Madonna's drowned worlds resurface / Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Part I: The girlie show: gender identities. Dragging out camp: narrative agendas in Madonna's musical production / Stan Hawkins -- Madonna's girls in the mix: performance of femininity beyond the beautiful / Patricia Pisters -- Where is the female body? Androgyny and other strategies of disappearance in Madonna's music videos / Corinna Herr -- Part II: Post-Virgin: sexual identities. Queer hearing and the Madonna queen / Keith E. Clifton -- What it feels like for two girls: Madonna's play with lesbian (sub- )cultures / Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Part III: Drowned worlds: ethnic identities. East is hot!: 'Madonna's Indian summer' and the poetics of appropriation / Michael Angelo Tata -- Re-worlding the oriental: critical perspectives on Madonna as geisha / Rahul Gairola -- The day the music died laughing: Madonna and country / Sean Albiez -- Crossing the border(line): Madonna's encounter with the Hispanic / Santiago Fouz-Hernández -- Part IV: Blond ambition: consuming celebrity. Madonna's daughters: girl power and the empowered girl-pop breakthrough / David Gauntlett -- Consuming Madonna then and now: an examination of the dynamics and structuring of celebrity consumption / Lisa Peñaloza.
Abstract The present volume offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date, addressing her configurations of race, gender and sex(uality), with special emphasis on her resurrection after the Sex backlash in the early 1990s. The collection focuses on new Madonna-related topics such as Hinduism, Judaism, Japanese culture, all-American culture, queer culture, motherhood and her influence on newer 'girl acts' such as the Spice Girls and Britney Spears. The book explores the themes of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and celebrity consumption through the lens of Madonna's songs, videos and shows. An international array of scholars portrays Madonna's popularization of the notion that identity is not fixed and can be continuously rearranged and revamped. The book will have wide appeal for all those concerned with gender studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, lesbian and gay musicology as well as popular music studies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index.
LCCN 2003062883
ISBN0754633713 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754633721 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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