Prince: The Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction
• The making of the authentic pop icon
• Inscription of otherness: dandyism, style and queer sensibility
• A god of earthly pleasures
• Voicing the erotic and the sublime
• 'Take me with u, Prince': female identifications with a male pop icon
• The Princian sonic universe: matters of compositional and performative proficiency
• The live experience: performance and performativity at the O2 Arena
• Selected discography/filmography
• Bibliography
• Index.