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-:"Madonna is a dancer. She thinks and expresses herself through [[dance]], which exists in the eternal [[Dionysian]] realm of [[music]]. […]. Madonna consolidates and fuses several traditions of [[pop music]], but the major one she typifies is [[disco]] […] I view disco, at its serious best, as a dark, grand Dionysian music with roots in African earth-cult."<small> —- [[Camille Paglia]], ‘Madonna II: Venus of the Radio Waves’, in ''[[Sex, Art, and American Culture]]''</small>+
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-:The roots of [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] are the early eighties [[New York dance music|New York club scene]]. Especially influential were DJs and producers [[Arthur Baker]], [[Shep Pettibone]], [[Junior Vasquez]] and [[Jellybean]] and vocalists [[Loleatta Holloway]], [[Rochelle Fleming]], [[Jocelyn Brown]] and [[Taana Gardner]]. --[[Sholem Stein]]+
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-'''Madonna Louise Ciccone''' (born [[August 16]] [[1958]]), better known as '''Madonna''', is an [[United States|American]] [[dance-pop]] [[singer-songwriter]], [[dancer]], [[record producer|record]], [[film producer]], and [[actress]]. Her place in modern pop culture remains fixed, with her ambitious [[music video]]s, stage performances and use of [[political]], [[Human sexual behavior|sexual]], and [[religious]] themes in her work. She is one of many artists who have borrowed from [[sexual minority]] cultures, including her appropriation of [[Vogue (dance)|vogue]]ing. Her latest album is [[Hard Candy (Madonna album)]].+
-==Discography==+
-* 1983: ''[[Madonna (Madonna album)|Madonna]]''+
-* 1984: ''[[Like a Virgin]]''+
-* 1986: ''[[True Blue (album)|True Blue]]''+
-* 1989: ''[[Like a Prayer]]''+
-* 1992: ''[[Erotica (album)|Erotica]]''+
-* 1994: ''[[Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)|Bedtime Stories]]''+
-* 1998: ''[[Ray of Light (Madonna album)|Ray of Light]]''+
-* 2000: ''[[Music (Madonna album)|Music]]''+
-* 2003: ''[[American Life]]''+
-* 2005: ''[[Confessions on a Dance Floor]]''+
-* 2008: ''[[Hard Candy (Madonna album)|Hard Candy]]''+
-== See also ==+
-*[[Paglia on Madonna]]+
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