Madonna's Erotica by Dango, Michael
Madonna's Erotica by Dango, Michael

Madonna's Erotica

Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war,...
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Author: Michael Dango
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Language: English
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Madonna's Erotica by Dango, Michael

Madonna's Erotica

CHF 19.71
Madonna's Erotica by Dango, Michael

Madonna's Erotica

CHF 19.71
Author: Michael Dango
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to be a celebration of a sexual culture that had rapidly slipped away. And Madonna herself wanted to sell scandal, which is why she released Erotica in the same season as her erotic thriller Body of Evidence and her pornographic coffee-table book simply titled Sex.

But Erotica is more sentimental than pornographic. This ambivalence over sex is what makes the album crucial both for understanding its time and for navigating culture a generation later. As queer politics were transitioning from sexual liberation to civil rights like same-sex marriage, Madonna tried to do both. Her songs proved formative for works of queer theory, which emerged in the academy at the same time as the album. And Erotica was-and is-central to a developing consciousness about cultural appropriation. In this book, Michael Dango considers Erotica and its legacy by drawing both on the intellectual traditions at the center of today's hysteria over critical race theory and "don't say gay" and on his own experiences as a gay man too young to know the original carnage of AIDS and too old to grow up assuming he could get married. Madonna offered up Erotica as a key entry in the 1990s culture wars. Her album speaks all the more urgently to the culture wars of today

Author: Michael Dango
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09/07/2023
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 6.50h x 4.75w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781501388996

About the Author

Michael Dango is Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies at Beloit College, USA, where he is also affiliated with Critical Identity Studies. He is the author of Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair (2021), which theorizes how stylistic developments in contemporary US literature, music, and visual art respond to a sense of pervasive crisis. His writing has also appeared in forums such as Public Books, New Inquiry, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Artforum.


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