Research Catalog

Poker face / Maureen Callahan.

Title
Poker face / Maureen Callahan.
Author
Callahan, Maureen.
Publication
New York : Hyperion, 2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance ML420.L185 C35 2010Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description
238 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in New York' s Lower East Side burlesque scene, became the global pop icon Lady Gaga. She is a once-in-a-decade artist, a gifted singer, composer, designer, and performance artist who mixes high and low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, authenticity with artifice. Who is Lady Gaga? A 24-year-old woman whose stage persona is the polar opposite of who she is offstage: isolated, insecure, and unable to be alone. An outré artist who wanted to be a sensitive singer-songwriter. A woman who says no man can ever compete with her career, but who still isn't over the ex-boyfriend who said she was too ambitious. She claims not to care what people think, but spends her downtime online, reading what people have to say about her. Based on over fifty original interviews with friends, employees, rivals, and music industry veterans, here is the first in-depth biography of this phenomenon.--From publisher description.
Subject
  • Lady Gaga
  • Singers > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.
Contents
Creation myth -- Becoming Gaga -- Queen of the scene -- Art of the steal -- Ditched -- One sequin at a time -- "I am living for you right now" -- The fame -- Offended anatomy -- Makeover -- Big in Japan.
ISBN
9781401324094
LCCN
^^2010020104
OCLC
  • 526084217
  • SCSB-12730602
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library