Popular musicians with long careers provide rich source material for the study of persona,
authenticity, endurance and the maintenance (and reinvention) of significant bodies of work …

This article outlines the concept of doing celebrity: whereby celebrity and pop stardom are
presented as a deliberately constructed set of actions and behaviours, rather than an …

Grace Jones, the celebrated black singer and disco diva, released her comeback album
Hurricane in 2008 after a 19-year musical hiatus that saw her making professional DJ …

This thesis explores the practice of “Queer-Diva collaboration” as it pertains to the work of
pop music icons Grace Jones and Annie Lennox. Queer-Diva collaborations are a …

Diet is the only known intervention which has been conclusively shown to extend life span. It
can be argued the key role diet has to play in the aging process came to prominence as a …

Étoile des aînés is a musical talent competition for seniors that was launched in Quebec in
2009 by Chartwell Residences for Retirees, Canada's largest private-sector operator in the …

In popular music studies, androgyny is frequently used to describe a performance that
demonstrates a fusion of male and female characteristics. The commitment to the image of …