Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone ( ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she has been recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, ...
's life and work has generated various
academics works,
which includes scholarly articles and other published works, mostly covered by
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and
academic journal
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s as well as by others educational publishers like those from
university press
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ess. The list is limited to only those that appeared first by a
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outlet, or published in
compendium
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s. Also, these works have been published in different languages other than English.
First
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s about her is believed to be dated on 1985.
Scholar
Suzanna Danuta Walters
Suzanna Danuta Walters is the director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and professor of sociology at Northeastern University, Boston. She is also the editor-in-chief of '' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'' and ...
commented that academic writings about her, "has produced at least one major academic text devoted to Madonna",
while for professor
Jane Desmond
Jane C. Desmond is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Desmond is also a published author as well as the co-founder and director of the International Forum for U.S ...
, "the relevant bibliography is vast".
Australian historian
Robert Aldrich
Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. An iconoclastic and maverick '' auteur'' working in many genres during the Golden Age of Hollywood, he directed main ...
once commented she is a "performer of inimitable ubiquity" in the academia as she "has saturated the pages of academic journals".
To
Alina Simone
Alina Simone (born Alina Vilenkin) is an American musician and writer. She is best known for her original songwriting, her album of cover songs by Russian punk poet Yanka Dyagileva, and her collection of autobiographical essays ''You Must Go And W ...
, in her academic studies "there is no dearth of material about Madonna, but an overwhelming excess".
Associate professor José F. Blanco, wrote in ''
The Journal of Popular Culture
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'' that "it can be argued that Madonna is overexposed in
academic research
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".
Thesis such as ''Like a thesis: postmodern readings of Madonna music videos'' (1991) by
Madonna scholar
Madonna studies (also called Madonna scholarship, Madonna--logy, ology or Madonna phenomenon) refers to the study of the work and life of American singer-songwriter Madonna using an interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary approach incorporating c ...
, Charles W Wells are included because they received academic and press coverage. In 1998, French academic Georges-Claude Guilbert wrote his thesis ''Madonna: un mythe postmoderne''.
Others of these publications received
citation
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s from other scholars and observers appearing in
citation index
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es, or were
preserved by
university libraries
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. In addition, others thesis were published as books. Music professor
Antoni Pizà
Antoni Pizà, born in Felanitx, Mallorca, Spain, in 1962, is a musicologist. After receiving a PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1994, he taught music history at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. He also ta ...
noted that during the late 20th century, it became a fad in the United States to write doctoral dissertations on Madonna.
American journalist
Hank Stuever
Hank Stuever (born 1968) is an American journalist who writes about popular culture for the Style section of ''The Washington Post''.
Early life and education
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said that Madonna's dissertations piled up and some were collected into a tome called ''The Madonna Connection'' (1993).
She has been part of multiple lectures around the world.
Academic and critical journal articles
In English
Non-English
Partial and secondary
Conferences, congresses, seminar and courses
Madonna has been part of multiple lectures around the world. Following, a few examples:
Theses and dissertations
In English
Non-English
Notes
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Book sources
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Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone ( ; born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she has been recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, ...
Academic publishing works