The Metaphor of Female Icon Identity in Musical Culture: Case Study Symbolism, Myth, and Ritual in the Construction of Irina Rimes’ Image
The Metaphor of Female Icon Identity in Musical Culture: Case Study Symbolism, Myth, and Ritual in the Construction of Irina Rimes’ Image

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to analyze the construction of Irina Rimes’ cultural identity, exploring how the cultural signifier becomes a complex, hybrid creation, and, more than that, a mosaic-like one – a blend of myths and rituals borrowed from various cultures, being updated, modified, or reconditioned. In this process, traditional symbols are transformed into new forms, subject to change. Given that identity "is expressed through symbols," the construction of Irina Rimes' identity is shaped by how she presents herself in public and in the media, the messages she conveys, her creative works or performances that incorporate rituals and myths, influences from her relationships, as well as through the rhetoric of fashion.

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