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Popular Music Chapter 7 Summary

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After reading Chapter 7 in the Understanding Society Through Popular Music and chapter 3 in the Popular Music and Society. Both chapters talk about gender, sexuality, pop, and politics.
In chapter 7, Becoming a Prima Donna, it talks about what that meant, what it means today, and the identity or identities that come with that title. During the modern era the prima donna was the “first lady” of Italian opera, (she would be the leading female singer for an opera company). They say that prima donnas are affected by the “diva complex”. Which means it leads them to being vain, superficial, obsessed with themselves and their fame and every other stereotype that comes with that title of being a prima donna. Today (postmodern) prima donnas are seemingly
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