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
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- how to be beyonce
- thought catalog
- vice nightlife series
- interview magazine
- art in america
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madison moore recently obtained the Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. His interests are varied and include electronic dance music, nightlife culture, black queer studies, and alternative subcultures. madison is a pop scholar and his writing has appeared in Art in America, Interview, Thought Catalog, Splice Today, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. madison is currently a staff writer at Thought Catalog and a freelance contributor to Interview.
a 2006 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral scholar, madison's research has won attention from outside of academia, and he has been profiled by the popular media in Color Lines, NYU Local, Black Book magazine, “Page Six” of the New York Post, and he recently appeared in a front-page profile in The New York Observer.
Experience- Sept 2012 - PresentStaff Writer / Thought Catalog
- Aug 2012 - PresentPost-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Theater + Dance / University of Richmond
- Feb 2011 - PresentFreelance Contributor / Interview Magazine
- Aug 2008 - PresentColumnist / Splice Today
- Apr 2010 - Oct 2011Contributing Writer / Thought Catalog
- Sept 2010 - Feb 2011Editorial Intern / Interview Magazine
Transcribe interviews, research story ideas, administrative tasks
- Jun 2010 - Aug 2010Fashion Intern / Women's Wear Daily
- Jun 2008 - Jun 2010Creative Director, Artspace Underground / Artspace gallery
I started and continue to curate 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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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
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press
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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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thought catalog
- Click here see my contributions to Thought Catalog.
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vice nightlife series
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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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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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splice today
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jezebel
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scholarly material
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