Gaga Aesthetics : Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition (Paperback)

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Culture and the Up-Ending of Tradition 2. Hegel, Art and Adequation 3. Adorno, The Constriction of the Aesthetic and Difficult Art 4. Modern Music and the Pact with the Devil 5. At the Precipice of Pop Culture: Wagner and Mahler 6. Art Beyond the Horizon 7. The Culture Industry and Popular Culture 8. Light Music and Lazy Listening 9. Jazz and "Jazz" 10. Ugliness and Kitsch 11. Aesthetics of Alienation 12. "Fashion Theory": A Philosophy of Dress 13. Lady Gaga's Gaga Aesthetics 14. Madonna to the Power of X 15. Fashion and the Redeployment of Kitsch 16. Philosophy in Fabric: Deconstruction in Contemporary Fashion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index