Fifteen international academics contribute 12 chapters to a critical analysis of Lady Gaga, whose cutting-edge, controversial songs and music videos have quickly placed her in the center of a self-consciously intellectual pop culture tradition that appeals to people who like to "make meanings"--i.e. >think>--rather than have meanings made for them. All but one of the contributors are from the Anglophone world--Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, the US--and offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, including popular musicology, film studies, queer studies, women's studies, gender studies, disability studies, popular culture studies, the emerging sub-discipline of aesthetics and the philosophy of fashion. Collectively they consider the contexts that Lady Gaga exists within and creates, and on what and how Gaga represents and is represented. The text includes examination of specific tracks ('Judas' and 'Telephone'), how sound and imagery interact in specific videos ('Paparazzi' and 'Bad Romance'), how Gaga constructs and presents herself, and how her work contributes to discussions concerning intertextual linking to pop culture icons vs. originality, the figuring of the sexualized female body, and representations of disability. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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