Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics

Contents

• 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 tru
• '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.