Editing Pop icon (section)

==Attributes and origins==
[[File: ExpressYourselfUnderGround cropped.jpg|upright|thumb|Semiotician [[Marcel Danesi]] attributed [[Madonna]] a catalyst role for the usage of the word "icon" in [[celebrity culture]].]]

Historians [[Asa Briggs]] and [[Peter Burke (historian)|Peter Burke]], explained that term "[[iconography]]" would pass into [[high culture]], and later in the twentieth century, into [[popular culture]], where "[[icon]]" refers to a secular celebrity like [[Madonna]].<ref name="Rothenberg">{{cite book|last1=Brand|first1=Benjamin|last2=Rothenberg|first2=David J.|title=Music and Culture in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Liturgy, Sources, Symbolism|year=2016|access-date=March 31, 2021|via=Google Books|isbn=978-1-10-715837-5|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMwiDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|page=293}}</ref> She probably had a catalyst role, as [[Marcel Danesi]], a professor of semiotics and linguistic anthropology at the [[University of Toronto]] cited in ''Language, Society, and New Media: Sociolinguistics'' that the word "icon" is a "term of religious origin" and arguably "used for the first time in [[celebrity culture]] to describe the American pop singer Madonna".<ref name="Danesi">{{cite book|last=Danesi|first=Marcel|author-link=Marcel Danesi|title=Language, Society, and New Media: Sociolinguistics Today|year=2020|access-date=March 31, 2021|chapter-url-access=limited|via=Google Books|chapter=4.1.3 Vocabulary|isbn=978-1-00-004876-6|publisher=[[Routledge]]|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WjnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91}}</ref> Danesi also asserts that the word "is now used in reference to any widely known celebrity, male or female".<ref name="Danesi" /> Some international reference works such as ''[[Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary]]'' and the ''[[Diccionario panhispánico de dudas]]'' have included Madonna's name to illustrate the new meaning of "icon".<ref name="Oxford">{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/icon|title=icon|access-date=March 31, 2021|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200604232617/https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/icon|work=[[Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Pan">{{cite web|url=https://www.rae.es/dpd/icono|title=icono o ícono|year=2005|access-date=March 31, 2021|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200604234741/https://www.rae.es/dpd/icono|work=[[Diccionario panhispánico de dudas]]|publisher=[[Royal Spanish Academy]]|url-status=live|language=es}}</ref> After ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]'' called her the "greatest gay icon", Guy Babineau from ''[[Xtra Magazine]]'' stated in 2008: "I'm old enough to remember when people weren't called icons".<ref name="Xtra">{{cite web|url=https://xtramagazine.com/culture/why-we-love-madonna-14392|title=Why we love Madonna|date=October 22, 2008|access-date=October 29, 2022|work=[[Xtra Magazine]]|first=Guy|last=Babineau}}</ref> 

===Longevity===
Usually, the pop icon status of a celebrity is contingent upon longevity of notoriety.<ref name="dearborn000">{{cite book
| first      = Mary V.
| last      = Dearborn
| title      = Mailer: A Biography
| publisher      = Houghton Mifflin Books
| date      = December 9, 1999
| isbn      = 978-0-395-73655-5
| url      = https://archive.org/details/mailerbiography00mary
}}</ref><ref name="gottesman">{{cite book
| editor1-first    = Ronald
| editor1-last     = Gottesman
| editor2-first    = Richard Maxwell
| editor2-last     = Brown
| title     = Violence in America: An Encyclopedia
| publisher = Simon and Schuster <!-- Are we sure it isn't Charles Scribner's Sons? -->
| year      = 1999
| isbn      = 0-684-80487-5
}}</ref> This is in contrast to [[Cult following|cult icons]], whose notoriety or recognition may be limited to a specific [[subculture]]. Some pop icons have left a lasting and indelible mark in the area of their career, and then went on to attain a lasting place of recognition in society at large.<ref name="Ratcliff">{{cite book
| first      = Ben
| last      = Ratcliff
| title      = The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings
| publisher      = Times Books
| date      = November 6, 2002
| isbn      = 978-0-8050-7068-2
| url      = https://archive.org/details/jazzcriticsguide00ratl
}}</ref>

===Ubiquity===
A common element of pop icon status is the ubiquity of imagery and allusions to the iconic figure.{{#tag:ref|Kaku,<ref name="Kaku" /> p. 11 |group="note"}} It is common for the figure to be recognized and even celebrated in areas outside the original source of celebrity status.{{#tag:ref|See e.g., Kaku,<ref name="Kaku" /> Chaplin,<ref name="Franklin" /> ''et al.'' |group="note"}} An example of this is [[Albert Einstein]], a [[physicist]] whose image and legacy have been represented in comic strips, T-shirts, greeting cards and many other contexts.<ref name="Kaku">{{cite book
| first     = Michio
| last      = Kaku
| author-link= Michio Kaku
| title     = Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]
|date=April 2004
| isbn      = 978-0-393-05165-0}}</ref>