Lady Gaga: Looking for Fame

Lady Gaga: Looking for Fame
Author: Paul Lester
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2010-09-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857129961

Lady Gaga: Looking For Fame - The Life Of A Pop Princess is the electrifying biography by Paul Lester and explores Stefani Germanotta's rapid rise to global stardom in the guise of the outrageous Lady Gaga. Hers has been a triumph achieved with the help of wild image-making, infectious pop hits and a teasing strand of ambiguous sexuality that has turned her into a gay icon. At heart it’s the story of a unique self-made phenomenon – a Madonna for today. As an adoring fan of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, Lady Gaga took the essence of 80s glam and reinvented it for the digital age. Commercially successful and critically accepted she shot from obscurity on Manhattan’s Lower East Side club scene to worldwide fame in just a couple of years. This is the story of her high-speed rise in the fame game, told with a mix of admiration and sharp journalistic insight.

Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame

Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame
Author: Mathieu Deflem
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137584688

This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an empirical examination of the social conditions that informed Lady Gaga’s rise to fame. The book delves into topics such as the marketing of Lady Gaga; the legal issues that have dogged her career; the media; her audience; her activism; issues of sex, gender, and sexuality; and Lady Gaga’s unique artistry. By training a spotlight on this singular pop icon, Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame invites readers to consider the nature of stardom in an age of celebrity.

The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga

The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga
Author: Richard J. Gray II
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 078649252X

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.

Practical Pain Management

Practical Pain Management
Author: C. David Tollison
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781731607

Thoroughly revised to reflect contemporary diagnostics and treatment, this Third Edition is a comprehensive and practical reference on the assessment and management of acute and chronic pain. This edition features 14 new chapters and is filled with new information on invasive procedures...pharmacologic interventions...neuraxial pharmacotherapy...physical and occupational therapies...diagnostic techniques...pain in terminally ill patients...cancer pain...visceral pain...rheumatologic disorders...managed care...and medicolegal issues. Reorganized with two new sections focusing on diagnostics and cancer pain. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga
Author: Emily Herbert
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1590204263

This revealing biography goes behind the popstar persona to tell the inside story of Lady Gaga’s rise to fame. A true original, Gaga found fame the hard way, playing the grimy bars and burlesque shows of New York City, before finally relocating to Los Angeles to begin work on what would become her debut album The Fame. Constantly en vogue and always in the public eye, this is the biography of the rise of Gaga, from her early life as a teenage protégé, to her life as one of the most respected musicians and most recognized entertainers on the planet. This book lifts the lid on Lady Gaga, going beyond the familiar narrative to reveal new insight into her vision, artistry, and business savvy.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga
Author: Elizabeth Goodman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0312668406

Packed with 120 full-color photos of the new queen of pop, this volume celebrates the fashion of the edgy, wildly original Lady Gaga, catching this rocketing star at her most outrageous, most revealing, and most fashionable.

Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture

Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture
Author: Amber L. Davisson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476603766

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.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga
Author: Bridget Heos
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2011-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1448823730

Profiles the life and career of performer Lady Gaga.

Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]
Author: Laura L. Finley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2023-03-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

Lady Gaga Biography: The “Mother Monster” of the Music Industry Revealed

Lady Gaga Biography: The “Mother Monster” of the Music Industry Revealed
Author: Chris Dicker
Publisher: Chris Dicker
Total Pages: 23
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Lady Gaga, the queen of pop, superstar, maverick and fashionista, has shocked the world with unusual style and way of expression. In this biography, you'll learn how Lady Gaga was able to accomplish such extraordinary success in such a short period of time. What she does is true art and great marketing to stand out from other artists. What she does differently? Lady Gaga has blown away the world by what she can do and how she flawlessly gets away with it because of her pure talents in her various fields. Lady Gaga is an epitome of self-love, expression of oneself, and experimentation of life choices. By being someone who is very spontaneous, her life story teaches the world that taking risks is the key to achieving the greatest things in life. In retrospect, Lady Gaga turns followers into fanatics, that's because her wildly successful strategy for attracting and keeping insanely loyal fans goes beyond limits. Are you one of those "Little Monsters?" If so, this Lady Gaga's biography is for YOU. Grab your copy now!