The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays

By Richard J. Gray II, Mathieu Deflem, Elizabeth Kate Switaj

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 oeuvre, however popular, strange, raw or controversial, enters into the larger sociopolitical discourse, challenging the status quo and altering our perceptions of reality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786468300
• ISBN13: 9780786468300
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher