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"Written from a critical cultural and historical perspective, the scholarly essays are eminently readable. In fact, they represent some of the most incisive descriptions of the fey band from Manchester I have come across....Fans of The Smiths, and anyone personally or professionally interested in British popular culture, must read this book. This collection is really the epitome of what pop culture criticism can and should be." -- PopMatters.com "The best pieces...represent pop music criticism of a very high order, erudite yet (mostly) free of academic jargon. Joseph Brooker's analysis of the band's radical politics, "'Has the world changed or have I changed' The Smiths and the Challenge of Thatcherism," is outstanding, as is Colin Coulter's "'A double bed and a stalwart lover for sure' The Smiths, the death of pop, and the not so hidden injuries of class."" -- NewYorkJournalofBooks.com "Full of insights, the collection rightly and passionately takes The Smiths as seriously even as Mor
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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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