This pioneering study provides a critical appraisal of pop star Kylie Minogue. It argues that a study of this mononymous global pop icon and celebrity as Kylie, she takes her place alongside Cher, Madonna and Beyoncé in the pop pantheon is long overdue.
Written by academics, music practitioners, and fans, this book argues that Minogues persona, performances and reception provide new critical insights into contemporary pop music culture, digital media, and celebrity. It further argues that dismissals of Kylie underestimate her accomplishments as a pop artist and singer-songwriter and undermine fans of pop music who form deep, affective bonds with performers, songs and albums.
Contributors draw on current perspectives in pop music studies, feminism, celebrity studies, fandom, and queer studies, a range revealing that to interpret Kylie is to engage compelling cultural frameworks. Across four parts (Pop Girlhood, Global Kylie, Dance Music, and Queer and Online Fandoms) the book demonstrates how Minogue herself makes important interventions into contemporary popular culture, with her career providing a micro-history of pop music, its myriad cultural meanings, and its fan practices. With this collection, Kylie Minogue studies has arrived.
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Kylie Minogues diverse musical output, illustrious career, and compelling public persona are long overdue for increased scholarly attention. By providing new and important perspectives on the artistic accomplishments and cultural influence of Kylie a global icon this dazzling collection of essays invites readers to think critically about a range of issues related to identity, stardom, and fandom in contemporary popular culture. An exciting and valuable contribution to pop music studies! * Kai Arne Hansen, Professor of Music, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and author of Pop Masculinities: The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music * ONeill and Pramaggiores collection examines Kylies chimeral iterations. It shows precisely why shes an icon of inclusivity, but does even more. Their book extends its focus to consider factors on the periphery of Kylies constructed persona: music production, disco, underground house music, French identity, relational celebrity, nostalgia, fan culture, and aging. The result is enlivening: a pioneering volume that shines unprecedented light on Kylie's image as one of pops glittering divas. After reading this, I was left wondering, why has nobody in academia written so well on Kylie before? * Mark Duffett, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Chester, UK *
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A first-of-its kind contextualization of Kylie Minogues creative oeuvre, situating Minogues celebrity in relation to musical performance, digital media practices, gender, race, and age.
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Introduction: Kylie and Her Lovers: Performance, Celebrity and Fandom
Stephen ONeill (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maria Pramaggiore
(Appalachian State University, USA)
I: Pop Girlhood
1. The Aussie Next Door: Neighbours, Charlene, and Kylies Ocker Origins
Joanna McIntyre McIntyre (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and
Anthea Taylor (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Performing White Girlhood: Kylie Minogues Pop Persona in the 1980s
Laura Watson (Maynooth University, Ireland)
II: Global Kylie
3. Excuse My French: Kylie, Cosmopolitanism and Creative Autonomy
Drago Momcilovic (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
4. The Golden Girl Next Door: Transmedia Celebrations of Kylies 50th
Ruth A Deller (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
5. From Reddys Roar to Kylies Padam: Relational Celebrity and Feminist Camp
Maria Pramaggiore (Appalachian State University, USA)
III: Dance Music: Disco, House, Remix
6. I Wanna Go Out Dancing: Disco and the Performative Persona of Kylie
Minogue
Lee Barron (Northumbria University, UK)
7. From Underground to Mainstream: Kylie Minogue and French House
Sébastien Lebray (University of Strasbourg, France)
8. Cant Get You Out Of My Web: Remixing Kylie as Digital Creative Practice
Claire Fitch (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland)
IV: Queer and Online Fandoms: Performing Kylie
9. Camping Up a Pop Princess: Kylie Minogue and Gay Iconicity
Páraic Kerrigan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
10. #PadamPadam: The Affective Spaces of Kylie Minogues Digital Media
Fandoms
Stephen ONeill (Maynooth University, Ireland)
11. Against Interpretation (after Kylie)
Sunil Manghani (University of Southampton, UK)
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Stephen ONeill is Associate Professor in English, National University of Ireland Maynooth. The author of Shakespeare and YouTube (Arden Shakespeare / Bloomsbury 2014), Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (2007), and co-editor of The Arden Research Handbook to Shakespeare and Adaptation (Arden Shakespeare /Bloomsbury 2022), he has published widely on adapted Shakespeare. His new research is in the arboreal humanities.
Maria Pramaggiore is Professor and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA. She has published widely on film and media and gender and sexuality. Recent publications include Feminism and Auteurism and the 1970s, In Theory, in Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor and 1970s American Cinema, ed. Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer (2023) and Streaming Bloody Murder: Documentary Celebrity and Sophie Toscan du Plantier Anniversary Media, co-authored with Páraic Kerrigan (Celebrity Studies, 2023).
