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

  • Editor: Goddard, Michael
  • Editor: Halligan, Benjamin

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$192.25

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Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

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.