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This chapter deals with Madonna’s background and cultural importance, with a focus on her controversial video classic “Like a Prayer.” We explore the importance of her Italian Catholic background and Italian-American identity and the role of race in the video. The chapter concludes with a discussion of Madonna as a postmodernist artist who has no regard for narrative continuity and who blends Italian-American and African-American musical forms and traditions.
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Berger, A.A. (2018). Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”. In: Perspectives on Everyday Life. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99795-7_27
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