We're in a Beyoncé moment. The pop sensation has more fans, more fame, and more cultural influence than ever before. But what makes her so iconic? Is she really that perfect? And why do we love her so much? How to Be Beyoncé isn’t a biography (mostly because nobody wants to get sued by someone who does everything so perfectly). Instead, it’s a meditation on her place in culture, why we love her so much, and what we can learn from her image and work-ethic so we can reach our own potential.
MADISON MOORE
pop critic
bio- press
- book on fabulousness
- scholarship + research
- dj mixes
- public lectures
- how to be beyonce
- interview magazine
- thought catalog
- splice today
- art in america
- jezebel
- vice nightlife series
- email me
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madison moore (Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, 2012) is a freelance writer / DJ / Thought Catalog + Splice Today staff writer / and Research Associate in the Department of English at King's College, University of London. Trained in performance studies and popular culture, madison is a pop culture scholar with expertise in electronic dance music culture, fashion, queer studies, contemporary art, alternative subcultures and urban aesthetics. His writing has appeared on The Creators Project, Interview magazine, Art in America, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and THEATER magazine. With Francisco Raul Cornejo, he is also guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies on Nightlife and Club Cultures.
A 2006 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral scholar, madison has been profiled by places such as Color Lines, Black Book magazine, “Page Six” of the New York Post, and he also appeared in a front-page profile in The New York Observer. As a public intellectual, madison has appeared on HuffPost Live, in a Vice documentary on nightlife culture and recently gave a TED talk on “Communicating Brooklyn Style.”
madison is the author of the Thought Catalog original e-book HOW TO BE BEYONCE, available on Amazon, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Kobo and Audible. He is currently working on a second Thought Catalog e-book, a memoir titled BROKE BUT FABULOUS, and his first print book is THE THEORY OF THE FABULOUS CLASS and will be published by Yale University Press.
Experience- May 2014 - PresentResearch Associate / King's College London
- Nov 2013 - PresentFreelance Contributor / The Creators Project
- Sept 2012 - PresentStaff Writer / Thought Catalog
- Feb 2011 - PresentFreelance Contributor / Interview Magazine
- Aug 2008 - PresentColumnist / Splice Today
- Aug 2012 - Apr 2014Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Theater + Dance / University of Richmond
- Apr 2010 - Oct 2011Contributing Writer / Thought Catalog
- Sept 2010 - Feb 2011Editorial Intern / Interview Magazine
- Jun 2010 - Aug 2010Fashion Intern / Women's Wear Daily
- Jun 2008 - Jun 2010Creative Director, Artspace Underground / Artspace gallery
I curated a monthly art party called ARTSPACE UNDERGROUND at Artspace gallery in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut. One saturday a month the gallery hosts an art party with a DJ spinning great music, a performance artist, with "performance" broadly conceived, and two bands.
- Jan 2008 - May 2008Intern / Deitch Projects
Education-
2006 - 2012Yale UniversityPh.D. in American Studies
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2006 - 2007Yale UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.) in French Literature
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Honors:Beinecke Brothers Fellowship for Graduate Study; Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Research Fellowship; Yale University President's Public Service Fellowship; John F. Enders Fellowship; Yale University Dissertation Fellowship
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press
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book on fabulousness
What does it mean to be fabulous?
Drawing from embodied practice, media, and visual culture, The Theory of the Fabulous Class seeks to answer this question by examining performances of fabulousness – performances that occur in everyday life as well as across other mediated forms – in America during the second half of the 20th century. Acknowledging yet ultimately moving beyond studies that consistently describe an interest in the surface of fashion and self-styling as rooted in pointless vanity, deception, and the mindless search for status, I show that fabulousness is creative labor, a type of “self-couture,” where the body becomes the site of artistic expression and creativity. Fabulousness, I show, is an enabling mode of performance that allows marginalized groups, among others, to assert themselves through radical self-styling/self-couturing. Fabulous presentations of self in everyday life are activated by the specific rejection of normative ways of looking – but also in the simple joy of wanting to be beautiful.
In the end I want us to use the term “critical mascara” to think about the serious work fabulousness ultimately does. As "critical mascara," fabulousness is a type queer gaze that critiques, analyzes and reshapes dominant structures of being. So, worry not. It is possible to be critical and look great, too.
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scholarship + research
- STROBE (multimedia performance in development)A Cultural History of Saturday Night (new book project in process)Techno for Breakfast (journal article in process)James Blake, Digital Lion (book chapter forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter)Special Issue Editor, "Global Club Cultures," Journal of Popular Music Studies (forthcoming)Walk For Me: Postmodern Dance at the House of Harrell (Theater Magazine)Looks: Studio 54 and the Production of Fabulous Nightlife (Dancecult: A Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture)Tina Theory: Notes on Fierceness (Journal of Popular Music Studies)My research interests are firmly planted in the study of contemporary performance, fashion, music and sound, modern and contemporary art, electronic dance music, queer studies and the creative industries. The selected projects above highlight these intellectual specialties.
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Tracks
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public lectures
- 2014 datesseptember 2014, portland institute for contemporary art, portland, oregonapril 2014, virginia commonwealth university, richmond, virginiaapril 2014, ryerson university, toronto, canadamarch 6th, 2014, northwestern university, evanston, illinoisjanuary 29 + 30, 2014, reed college, portland, oregon2013 datesnovember 20th, 2013, university of pennsylvania, philadelphiamay 9th, 2013, TEDxWilliamsburg, brooklynfebruary 18th, 2013 washington university, saint louisif you would like to invite madison to speak at your college or university, please use the "email me" link below.
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how to be beyonce
- Click here to purchase HOW TO BE BEYONCE, available on all Android, Apple, Nook, and Kindle devices.
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interview magazine
- 1). Holy Ghost! Makes Room For Us
2). Deerhoof is Not Going to Save the World
3). Iconoclassical: Hahn-Bin, The Virtuoso With a Twist
4). Retrofitting with Hunx and His Punkettes
5). Swede Symphony: Listening for The Sounds
6). Open AdmiSSION: Cody Critcheloe Gets Bent
7). She, Amanda Lepore
8). Patrick Wolf Sings a Happy Tune
9). HoMo'Nique New York
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thought catalog
- Click here see my contributions to Thought Catalog.
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splice today
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art in america
- 1). New Skin: Q+A With Angel Otero
2). Q+A: Mickalene Thomas' Photographic Funk
Click here to see my other contributions to Art In America.
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jezebel
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vice nightlife series
