Gender Roles in Pop Songs (The Discourse Analysis of Lady Gaga’s Songs) Cover Image

Pop Şarkılarındaki Cinsiyet Rolleri (Lady Gaga’nın Şarkılarının Söylem Analizi)
Gender Roles in Pop Songs (The Discourse Analysis of Lady Gaga’s Songs)

Author(s): Adnan SERT
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Music, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: SD Yayınevi
Keywords: Popular culture; Music; Gender roles; Discourse;

Summary/Abstract: While the process of culture until reaching the concept of popular covers popular culture and the areas identified with it; The concept of 'popular culture' constitutes the last leg of the emerging, developing and changing culture and has been the subject of academic literature in various ways, especially with music. What are the forces that trigger this phenomenon, which started with the change of the concept of culture? Or what lies behind the dominance of this culture? While answering these questions, it is necessary to see that all of these are rooted in culture and the base of the people, and that they have changed over time. The culture has changed and where the people are is very important. The culture, which was created by the society and then passed under the control of the capital order, has changed with different thoughts, formations and approaches. The point to be emphasized here is that the phenomenon called popular culture is related to the evolution of the concept of culture. This phenomenon, which is encountered in most areas of our lives, is under the necessity of examining it in the field of literature, because the music phenomenon to be studied in the future is the area that popular culture sheds the most light on. While examining popular culture between tradition and modernism with music, it is very clear that music is not examined under the name of art, at the latest point it has reached today, but under the changing cultural momentum. In this study, the distinctive characteristics of the discourse of Lady Gaga's songs in Fame Monster in 2009 and her single album Born This Way in March 2011 will be revealed. Also, a few lines from the Teeth song were taken for reference. The metaphorical structures that Gaga uses while meeting objects, people and actions in her lyrics, slogans and stereotypes, poetic images, emotional attitudes such as irony and santimantalism, and communication subtleties that reflect the cultural and folkloric texture established with the listener will be examined in terms of discourse analysis.

  • Issue Year: 7/2023
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 339-366
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Turkish