[lbo-talk] Paglia on Gaga

[Voyou]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 15:16 -0700, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> I've missed the Gaga train so far and don't know enough to form an 
> opinion.  I know she has fans here.  What do you like about her?

Much, much more than I imagine you want to read on the topic at Gaga
Studies:

http://gagastudies.blogspot.com/

I think this piece (on Gaga, anorexia, and ingestion) is a particularly
good defense of Gaga's interestingness:

http://populardemand.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/taking-it-all-in/

On Gaga's indebtedness to Madonna, there's what's shaping up to be an
interesting series of posts on Madonna, Beyoncé and Gaga in relation to
afrofuturism here:

http://its-her-factory.blogspot.com/2010/09/announcing-series-of-posts-on.html

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