{"product_id":"madonnas-erotica-paperback","title":"Madonna's Erotica - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Dango\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone wanted Madonna's 1992 album \u003ci\u003eErotica\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eErotica \u003c\/i\u003ein the same season as her erotic thriller \u003ci\u003eBody of Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e and her pornographic coffee-table book simply titled \u003ci\u003eSex\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut \u003ci\u003eErotica \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eErotica \u003c\/i\u003ewas-and is-central to a developing consciousness about cultural appropriation. In this book, Michael Dango considers \u003ci\u003eErotica\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eErotica\u003c\/i\u003e as a key entry in the 1990s culture wars. Her album speaks all the more urgently to the culture wars of today\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Dango\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies at Beloit College, USA, where he is also affiliated with Critical Identity Studies. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCrisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), which theorizes how stylistic developments in contemporary US literature, music, and visual art respond to a sense of pervasive crisis. His writing has also appeared in forums such as \u003ci\u003ePublic Books, New Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.1 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764787314976,"sku":"9781501388996","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b3bcdf45fd6502ab34bd1c8ed7104fc8.webp?v=1780254696","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/madonnas-erotica-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}