Madonna's Erotica

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Beschreibung

Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album <i>Erotica</i> 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 <i>Erotica </i>in the same season as her erotic thriller <i>Body of Evidence</i> and her pornographic coffee-table book simply titled <i>Sex</i>. But <i>Erotica </i>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 <i>Erotica </i>was-and is-central to a developing consciousness about cultural appropriation. In this book, Michael Dango considers <i>Erotica</i> 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 <i>Erotica</i> as a key entry in the 1990s culture wars. Her album speaks all the more urgently to the culture wars of today

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781501388996

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

159 x 118 x 10 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury Academic