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Intimacy, Authenticity and ‘Worlding’ in Beyoncé’s Star Project
Popular Music, Stars and Stardom, pp.137-152
ANU Press
2018
Abstract
At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, African-American pop star Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (known professionally as Beyoncé) performed a 12-song medley from her self-titled visual album,Beyoncé(2013), recreating its imagery across moving stages, treadmills, giant screens and a large troupe of dancers. To open this typically large-scale performance, she said, ‘MTV, welcome to my world’. This choice of words is interesting because, as a dominant figure in the popular music scene, Beyoncé hardly need introduce herself. What this moment captures, however, is the increasing personal intimacy of Beyoncé’s stardom, and her transition to the active creation and ownership of an
Details
- Title
- Intimacy, Authenticity and ‘Worlding’ in Beyoncé’s Star Project
- Authors
- Phoebe Macrossan (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Stephen Loy (Editor) - Australian National UniversityJulie Rickwood (Editor) - Australian National UniversitySamantha Bennett (Editor) - Australian National University
- Publication details
- Popular Music, Stars and Stardom, pp.137-152
- Publisher
- ANU Press
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.22459/PMSS.06.2018
- ISBN
- 9781760462130
- Copyright note
- This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99605208402621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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