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

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Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2010 - Music - 209 pages
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. The book opens up new possibilities for writing about contemporary music beyond traditional approaches grounded in the sociology of music.
 

Contents

Music for a Second City
19
Manchester Images from the 1981 documentary Exchange 2224
24
A Manchester Band?
33
The Fall and the War against Conformity
57
Acoustics and Primitive Recording in the Music
77
The Falls Pulp Modernism
95
Mark E Smiths Handwriting and the Typography
111
Ambiguity Objectivity
133
In Search of Cultural Politics in a Fall Fanzine
169
Bibliography
191
Index
205
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