{"product_id":"madonnas-erotica-by-michael-dango-9781501388996","title":"Madonna's Erotica","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\u003e in 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003eErotica\u003c\/i\u003e is 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\u003e was—and is—central to a developing consciousness about cultural appropriation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Michael Dango considers \u003ci\u003eErotica\u003c\/i\u003e and its legacy by drawing both on the intellectual traditions at the centre 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362816344300,"sku":"9781501388996","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15169583482722.jpg?v=1772901381","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/madonnas-erotica-by-michael-dango-9781501388996","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}