Lady Gaga Empire- Lady Gaga and The Creation of Little Monsters
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Publisher : J.G. Davis
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
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Lady Gaga
Author : Claire Kreger-Boaz
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1420504266
Book Description
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is known to most of her fans as Lady Gaga. This singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer has become a fixture in both pop music and pop culture. Her rise to fame in the late 2000s was accompanied by elaborate outfits, a handful of popular singles, and an unforgettable stage presence. Since then Lady Gaga has become the first woman to have four albums reach number one on the billboards, making her one of the world's best-selling artists. In addition to her passion for music, Lady Gaga is also a fierce advocate for the LGBTQ community and uses her wide outreach to speak out against bullying. This compelling volume tracks Lady Gaga's rise to fame, from her childhood and early career to her provocative and popular innovations in music, fashion, performance, and advocacy.
The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga
Author : Richard J. Gray II
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 078649252X
Book Description
Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gaga's body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity and cover topics such as gender and sexuality, body commodification, visual body rhetoric, drag performance, homosexuality and heteronormativity, Surrealism and the theatre of cruelty, the carnivalesque, monstrosity, imitation and parody, human rights, and racial politics. Of particular interest is the way that Lady Gaga's œuvre, however popular, strange, raw or controversial, enters into the larger sociopolitical discourse, challenging the status quo and altering our perceptions of reality.
Rivington Was Ours
Author : Brendan Jay Sullivan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062125591
Book Description
Lady Gaga's old friend and former DJ Brendan Jay Sullivan paints a vivid picture of the downtown scene from which she emerged. Brendan Jay Sullivan was an up-and-coming DJ in New York City when he met Stefani Germanotta, then a struggling artist, in 2006. She was a go-go dancer who sewed her own outfits but had bigger ambitions—she wanted nothing less than to take over the music world. In this intimate portrait of the budding star who would soon catapult to fame and fortune, the author describes afternoons sitting with Gaga on the floor of her bare Lower East Side apartment, drinking wine from pint glasses and plotting out the pop stardom that awaited her. Filled with stories of love and heartbreak among Gaga and Sullivan and their circle of aspiring musicians and performers, and set against the vibrant backdrop of the downtown bars and parties of the mid-aughts, Rivington Was Ours is both a love letter to New York and a glimpse behind the veil of one of the biggest musical icons of her generation.
Fashion Week Finale
Author : Margaret Gurevich
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496505077
Book Description
Will Chloe's fashion dreams continue or does New York Fashion Week mark the last of Chloe Montgomery, fashion designer?
Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture
Author : Amber L. Davisson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786474750
Book Description
Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the pop star manages the celebrity persona in her relationships with her fans, the development of her gender identity, her parodying of other celebrities, and her navigation of the legal and economic system that make up the music industry. Much of Gaga's ability to maintain ownership of her identity comes from her early decisions to characterize herself as a performance artist. For Gaga, this means living the persona 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Gaga mimicks celebrity life in a self-conscious way that makes the mimicry apparent. Her performance of celebrity is an on-going project--despite what she may claim, she was not born this way. The excess of her celebrity is magnified by her title: Mother Monster. Historically, media narratives of celebrities, monsters, and mothers have centered on uncontrolled excesses that must be contained. Gaga adopts these personas, but refuses to submit to the containment that comes with each. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Blockbusters
Author : Anita Elberse
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 142994532X
Book Description
Why the future of popular culture will revolve around ever bigger bets on entertainment products, by one of Harvard Business School's most popular professors What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Entertainment, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? Anita Elberse, Harvard Business School's expert on the entertainment industry, has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products—the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market—is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories emerging from Elberse's unprecedented access to some of the world's most successful entertainment brands, Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works—and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large.
The House of Gucci
Author : Sara Gay Forden
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062222678
Book Description
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword On the morning of March 27, 1995, four quick shots cracked through Milan’s elegant streets. Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, had been ambushed, slain on the steps to his office by an unknown gunman. Two years later, Milan’s chief of police entered the sumptuous palazzo of Maurizio’s ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani—nicknamed “the Black Widow” by the press—and arrested her for the murder. Did Patrizia kill her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because he was preparing to marry his mistress? Or is it possible Patrizia didn’t do it at all? The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, and intrigue—a chronicle of the rise, near fall, and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, The House of Gucci is a page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heartrending personal tragedy.
Intern Ambition
Author : Margaret Gurevich
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496539540
Book Description
Chloe is beyond excited to be back in New York City after winning Teen Design Diva and can't wait to start her dream internship with famed designer, Stefan Meyers. But the rivalry and drama she thought she left behind in the competition is back when the other interns begin to question her abilities. Can Chloe prove to everyone, including herself, that she truly belongs?
Religion Online
Author : August E. Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Book Description
Religion Online provides new insights about religiosity in a contemporary context, offering a comprehensive look at the intersection of digital media, faith communities, and practices of all sorts. Recent research on Apple users, video games, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, digital music, and sports as religion supports the idea that media and religion, once considered separate entities, are in many cases the same thing. New media and religious practice can no longer be detached; this two-volume set discusses how religionists are embracing the Internet amidst cultural shifts of secularization, autonomous religious worship, millennials' affinity for new media, and the rise of fundamentalism in the global south. While other works describe case studies, this book explains how new media are interwoven into the very fabric of religious belief, behavior, and community. Chapters break down the past, present, and projected future of the use of digital media in relation to faith traditions of many varieties, extending from mainline Christianity to new religious movements. The book also examines the impacts of digital media on beliefs and practices around the world. In exploring these subjects, it calls on the study of culture, namely anthropology, to conceptualize a technological period as significant as the industrial revolution.
