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9780719078408: Why pamper life’s complexities?: Essays on The Smiths (Music and Society)
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ISBN 10: 0719078407 ISBN 13: 9780719078408
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

In this, the first academic text devoted to The Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades.

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Sean Campbell is Associate Professor of Media and Culture at Anglia Ruskin University.

Colin Coulter is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

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For five short years in the 1980s, a four-piece Manchester band released a collection of records that had undeniably profound effects on the landscape of popular music and beyond. Today, public and critical appreciation of The Smiths is at its height, yet the most important British band after The Beatles have rarely been subject to sustained academic scrutiny. Why pamper life's complexities?: Essays on The Smiths seeks to remedy this by bringing together diverse research disciplines to place the band in a series of enlightening social, cultural and political contexts as never before.

Topics covered by the essays range from class, sexuality, Catholicism, Thatcherism, regional and national identities, to cinema, musical poetics, suicide and fandom. Lyrics, interviews, the city of Manchester, cultural iconography and the cult of Morrissey are all considered anew. The essays breach the standard confines of music history, rock biography and pop culture studies to give a sustained critical analysis of the band that is timely and illuminating.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, literature, geography, cultural and media studies. It is also intended for a wider audience of those interested in the enduring appeal of one of the most complex and controversial bands. Accessible and original, these essays will help to contextualise the lasting cultural legacy of The Smiths.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0719078407
ISBN 13 
9780719078408
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
274
Editor
Coulter Colin, Campbell Sean
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9780719078415: Why pamper life’s complexities?: Essays on The Smiths (Music and Society)

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ISBN 10:  0719078415 ISBN 13:  9780719078415
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2010
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