Body Vandalism: Lady Gaga, Disability, and Popular Culture
| dc.contributor.author | Smit, Christopher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-08T23:43:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-08T23:43:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay investigates the employment of disability by the pop star Lady Gaga. Working through different illustrations of disability in her videos it is argued that Lady Gaga ushers in a new aesthetic and political platform on which disability can be redefined. In particular, the author argues that Lady Gaga unconsciously performs within the space of what Siebers has named a disability aesthetic in which the different bodies reformulate the expectations and desires of the art object. The context of popular culture is explained as a necessary component of this reframing. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Smit, C. (2014). Body Vandalism: Lady Gaga, Disability, and Popular Culture. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 10(1 & 2). | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1552-9215 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/58591 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | vol. 10, no. 1 & 2 | |
| dc.subject | disability | |
| dc.subject | Lady Gaga | |
| dc.subject | aesthetics | |
| dc.title | Body Vandalism: Lady Gaga, Disability, and Popular Culture | |
| dc.type | Forums | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |