Morrissey
The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart
Seiten
2012
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-2404-3 (ISBN)
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-2404-3 (ISBN)
A study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker. It examines the work of this compelling performer, whose intelligence, humour, suffering and awkwardness have fascinated audiences around the world. It traces the trajectory of Morrissey's career and outlines the contours and contradictions of the singer's elusive persona.
This is the first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker. Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of celibacy, abstinence and rock 'n' roll revolutionized the world of British pop. As a solo artist, too, he consistently adopts the outsider's perspective and dares us to confront uncomfortable subjects. In his brilliant book, Gavin Hopps examines the work of this compelling performer, whose intelligence, humour, suffering and awkwardness have fascinated audiences around the world for the last 25 years. Hopps traces the trajectory of Morrissey's career and outlines the contours and contradictions of the singer's elusive persona. The book illuminates Morrissey's coyness (how can he remain a mystery when he tells us too much?)
, his dramatized melancholy (surely more of a radical existential protest than the gimmick some believe it to be), and his complex attitudes towards loneliness and alienation, as well as his intriguing sense of the religious.
This is the first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker. Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of celibacy, abstinence and rock 'n' roll revolutionized the world of British pop. As a solo artist, too, he consistently adopts the outsider's perspective and dares us to confront uncomfortable subjects. In his brilliant book, Gavin Hopps examines the work of this compelling performer, whose intelligence, humour, suffering and awkwardness have fascinated audiences around the world for the last 25 years. Hopps traces the trajectory of Morrissey's career and outlines the contours and contradictions of the singer's elusive persona. The book illuminates Morrissey's coyness (how can he remain a mystery when he tells us too much?)
, his dramatized melancholy (surely more of a radical existential protest than the gimmick some believe it to be), and his complex attitudes towards loneliness and alienation, as well as his intriguing sense of the religious.
Gavin Hopps is the Research Council's UK Academic Fellow in the School of Divinity at St. Mary's College, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Introduction; Chapter 1: The Oxymoronic Self; Chapter 2: The Art of Coyness; Chapter 3: Maudlin Street; Chapter 4: The Light That Never Goes Out; Conclusion.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.5.2012 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 394 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4411-2404-7 / 1441124047 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4411-2404-3 / 9781441124043 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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