Madonnaland : : And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom / / Alina Simone.

When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna—and her own ambivalence about, maybe even jealousy o...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ONE. Conspiracy in Bay City, or, Why is Madonna’s birthplace the last place in America where she is actively controversial?
  • TWO. Seeking Refuge from ’80s Rock, or, Was Madonna actually an outsider artist?
  • THREE. Magical Contagion, or, What happens to Madonna’s lonely mountain of stuff after she dies?
  • FOUR. Madonna Misconstrued, or, Getting the hell into Michigan
  • FIVE. Mystery of the Mondegreen, or, Who was the first band to smuggle the word “masturbate” onto the Billboard top 100?
  • SIX. Flying Wedge, or, Could a band with three fans be (another) missing link between hard rock and punk?
  • Epilogue
  • Thanks