Overview

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, and contributing to popular musicology, film studies, queer studies, popular culture studies, and the burgeoning sub-discipline of aesthetics, philosophy of fashion. It visits both to pop cultural debates on the status of intertextuality, held in tension with originality, and to debates in women's and gender studies on the figuring of the sexualized female body.