Presents biographical and career profiles of music superstars, including Lady Gaga and Rihanna, which feature professional highlights, secrets to success, and questions and answers.

Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness. They are a lens through which deeper understandings about race, gender, politics, history and the artistic process can be understood. When combined with the most affective of mediums – cinema, the combination can be both thrilling and alarming. From the relatively early days of cinema, figures from the world of popular music have made forays into acting and contributed cameo appearances. From Little Richard and Kylie Minogue to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Pop Stars On Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market offers a collection of essays on some of the most influential international performances from a diverse range of cultural icons. The book considers industry shifts, access and diversity, but also the notion of cultural appropriation, audience appeal, marketing and demographics. Perhaps most importantly, the publication will look at what happens when cultures collide and coalesce.

Exploring Peru’s lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru’s emerging middle class, Joshua Tucker tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Tucker focuses on the music of Ayacucho, Peru, examining how media workers and intellectuals there transformed the city’s huayno music into the country’s most popular style. By marketing contemporary huayno against its traditional counterpart, these agents, Tucker argues, have paradoxically reinforced ethnic hierarchies at the same time that they have challenged them. Navigating between a burgeoning Andean bourgeoisie and a music industry eager to sell them symbols of newfound sophistication, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a deep account of the real people behind cultural change.

In this age of YouTube sensations and televised music competitions, it can seem like pop stars actually "pop" up overnight. However, it's rare that someone can truly become a music sensation without first logging many hours of hard work. Luckily, this guide, featuring many famous pop stars, can take readers behind the scenes to find out the many ways that pop stars have been discovered as well as tips readers can use to prepare themselves for a life in music. A fun design featuring infographics make this high-interest topic even more appealing.

Readers will love exploring the high-interest careers of pop stars. Engaging text and color photographs introduce readers to the world of popular music, while teaching them about the skills that pop stars need to develop, including singing and dancing. Readers will learn the steps they can take to become a musician, such as taking voice lessons and learning to play an instrument. The book is supplemented by colorful biographies of pop stars who rose to fame and success. Readers will have additional opportunities for research through selected websites. Reading tools include a glossary, index, and table of contents.

Do you dream of belting out a chart-topping single on stage in front of thousands of people? Even with talent and determination, it's a long, winding journey to the top. Chart your path to stardom, facing real-life choices as you go. Some choices may lead to center stage, while others lead to disappointment or redirection into another career field.