Benjamin Halligan

Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Goddard, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics. Mark E. Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with The Fall that spans thirty years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317100485
• Artikelnr.: 45095634

Autorenporträt

Michael Goddard is Lecturer in Media Studies, and Benjamin Halligan is Director of the Graduate School, both in the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: 'messing up the paintwork'
Michael Goddard and Benjamin Halligan; Part I The Fall and 'The North': Building up a band: music for a second city
Richard Witts; The Fall: a Manchester band?
Katie Hannon; Salford drift: a psychogeography of The Fall
Mark Goodall. Part II Techniques and Tactics of The Fall: 'Rebellious jukebox': The Fall and the war against conformity
Andy Wood; 'I curse your preoccupation with your record collection': The Fall on vinyl 1978-83
Richard Osborne; 'Dictaphonics': acoustics and primitive recording in the music of The Fall
Robert Walker; 'Let me tell you about scientific management': The Fall
the factory and the disciplined worker
Owen Hatherley. Part III The Aesthetics of The Fall: 'Memorex for the krakens': The Fall's pulp modernism
Mark Fisher; Language scraps: Mark E. Smith's handwriting and the typography of The Fall
Paul Wilson; 'Humbled on Iceland': on improvisation during The Fall
Robin Purves; The Fall
Mark E. Smith and 'the stranger': ambiguity
objectivity and the transformative power of a band from elsewhere
Martin Myers. Part IV The Fall
the Media and Cultural politics: 'The sound of The Fall
the truth of this movement of error': a true companion
an ambivalent friendship
an ethic of truths
Angus McDonald; 'I think it's over now': The Fall
John Peel
popular music and radio
Paul Long; In search of cultural politics in a Fall fanzine
Chris Atton; 'As if we didn't know who he was': Mark E. Smith's untimeliness
Janice Kearns and Dean Lockwood; Bibliography; Select discography of The Fall; Index.