Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context.
This symposium of essays places Madonna's career in the context of chart and dance music of the 1980s and 1990s as well as show business as a whole, before examining the wider issues of sexuality and control raised by her work in music, ...