Alina Simone "Madonnaland" Book (2016)

Details: “Madonnaland and Other Detours Into Fame and Fandom,” by Alina Simone, 2016. New stock, paperback, softcover. Short Description: In the spirit of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, Madonnaland takes us on a revelatory road trip through the quirky hinterlands of celebrity and fandom and the quest to make music that matters in the face of relentless commercialism. "Simone . . . achieves a productive union between the obscure and the intriguing."—New York Times Book Review Full Description: When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna—and her own ambivalence about, maybe even jealousy of, the Material Girl’s overwhelming commercial success. With the straight-ahead course stymied, Simone set off on a quirky detour through the backroads of celebrity and fandom and the people who