List of academic publishing works on Madonna

Madonna seen on her Rebel Heart Tour, in 2015.

Madonna's life and work has generated various academics works,[1][2][3] which includes scholarly articles and other published works, mostly covered by literary and academic journals as well as by others educational publishers like those from university pressess. The list is limited to only those that appeared first by a peer-reviewed outlet, or published in compendiums.[a] Also, these works have been published in different languages other than English.

First scholarly articles about her is believed to be dated on 1985.[4] Scholar Suzanna Danuta Walters commented that academic writings about her, "has produced at least one major academic text devoted to Madonna",[5] while for professor Jane Desmond, "the relevant bibliography is vast".[6] Australian historian Robert Aldrich once commented she is a "performer of inimitable ubiquity" in the academia as she "has saturated the pages of academic journals".[7] To Alina Simone, in her academic studies "there is no dearth of material about Madonna, but an overwhelming excess".[8] Associate professor José F. Blanco, wrote in The Journal of Popular Culture that "it can be argued that Madonna is overexposed in academic research".[9]

Thesis such as Like a thesis: postmodern readings of Madonna music videos (1991) by Madonna scholar, Charles W Wells are included because they received academic and press coverage. In 1998, French academic Georges-Claude Guilbert wrote his thesis Madonna: un mythe postmoderne.[10] Others of these publications received citations from other scholars and observers appearing in citation indexes, or were preserved by university libraries. In addition, others thesis were published as books. Music professor Antoni Pizà noted that during the late 20th century, it became a fad in the United States to write doctoral dissertations on Madonna.[11] American journalist Hank Stuever said that Madonna's dissertations piled up and some were collected into a tome called The Madonna Connection (1993).[12] She has been part of multiple lectures around the world.

  1. ^ Hall & Hall 2010, pp. 445–446
  2. ^ Jeffreys 2005, p. 76
  3. ^ Fenner & Hill 2010, p. 110
  4. ^ von Lowtzow, Caroline (May 17, 2010). "Aus der Ursuppe des Trash". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). pp. 1–2. Archived from the original on July 26, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  5. ^ Walters 1995, p. 2
  6. ^ Desmond 2001, p. 345
  7. ^ Aldrich, Robert; Wotherspoon, Garry (2020). "M; Madonna". Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. Routledge. ISBN 978-1000150285. Archived from the original on October 1, 2022. Retrieved May 21, 2022 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Fry, Naomi (March 3, 2016). "'Madonnaland,' by Alina Simone". T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2022.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Blanco was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Claude was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Pizà 2003, p. 162
  12. ^ Stuever, Hank (August 10, 2008). "The Age Of Madonna: Touched for a Very Long Time". The Washington Post. p. 2. Retrieved August 1, 2022.


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