Lady Gaga and Popular Music

<p>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.</p>