Like A Prayer By Madonna Ethos
The track 'Like a Prayer' is off Madonna's forth studio album released in 1989.
"The autobiographical album, Like a Prayer, makes explicit the traces of a Roman Catholic Italian American family ethos in Madonna's work. The album itself is dedicated to her mother, who, she writes, "taught me how to pray." The cover playfully exploits Roman Catholic religious themes and reinscribes Madonna signifiers, most notably her navel, from her earlier work" (Harold Jaffe, Madonna and Other Spectacles (New York:PAJ Publications, 1988),7-12).
In the music video 'Like A Prayer', Madonna witnesses a double crime that is equated with a burning cross, Madonna falls into a dream. That this a dream is of utmost importance, for it signals that the character
"The autobiographical album, Like a Prayer, makes explicit the traces of a Roman Catholic Italian American family ethos in Madonna's work. The album itself is dedicated to her mother, who, she writes, "taught me how to pray." The cover playfully exploits Roman Catholic religious themes and reinscribes Madonna signifiers, most notably her navel, from her earlier work" (Harold Jaffe, Madonna and Other Spectacles (New York:PAJ Publications, 1988),7-12).
In the music video 'Like A Prayer', Madonna witnesses a double crime that is equated with a burning cross, Madonna falls into a dream. That this a dream is of utmost importance, for it signals that the character