[ecrea] New Edited Collection on Morrissey

MORRISSEY: Fandom, Representations & Identities
edited by Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power
Morrissey is one of the most influential songwriters of our time. He has 
remained an anti-establishment and outspoken figure who has fought to 
bring controversial social issues to the forefront of our minds. 
Morrissey has used his music and his fame as vehicles for social change, 
singing and speaking out on a variety of issues: including class 
discrimination, ethnicity, sexuality, vegetarianism and animal rights, 
delivering his message in velvet sound-bytes and provocative 
performances. This important book focuses on Morrissey's solo career and 
provides a diverse collection of essays that highlight his creative 
contribution to music and culture. Working across a range of academic 
disciplines and approaches (including musicology; ethnography; sociology 
and cultural studies) these essays seek to make sense of the many 
complexities and controversies surrounding this iconic performer.  
Together, these essays examine the often intense fan cultures associated 
with Morrissey and how his creative work represents and performs many 
facets of the social world in which we find ourselves.  Contributors to 
this book range from established academics to exciting emerging scholars 
in a range of fields and geographical locations, each of whom bring 
particular theoretical, textual and critical perspectives on Morrissey 
and his work as an artist, a champion of the proletariat, and an elusive 
and contradictory stage personae.
Full title: Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities
Editors: Eoin Devereux, Martin J. Power and Aileen Dillane.
ISBN: 9781841504179
Published by: Intellect | Publication: July 2011
Price: £29.95/ $50
Binding: Hardback pages |Dimensions: 230 x 174Territory: World| 
Readership: General/Specialist

Preface By Len Brown

Introduction: But Don't Forget the Songs that Made You Cry and the Songs 
that Saved Your Life ... Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power.

Chapter 1: 'Suedehead': Paving the Pilgrimage Path to Morrissey's and Dean's
Fairmount, Indiana Erin Hazard.

Chapter 2: "The Seaside Town that They Forgot to Bomb": Morrissey and
Betjeman on Urban Regeneration and British Identity Lawrence Foley

Chapter 3: In the Spirit of '69? Morrissey and the Skinhead Cult
John H. Baker.

Chapter 4: Fanatics, Apostles and NMEs Colin Snowsell.

Chapter 5: The "Teenage Dad" and "Slum Mums" are Just "Certain People I 
Know":Counter Hegemonic Representations of the Working/Underclass in the
Works of Morrissey Martin J. Power.

Chapter 6: In Our Different Ways We are the Same: Morrissey and 
Representations of Disability. Daniel Manco
Chapter 7: "My So Friendly Lens": Morrissey as Mediated through His 
Public Image Melissa Connor.

Chapter 8: "Because I've only got Two Hands": Western Art Undercurrents 
in the Poses and Gestures of Morrissey. Andrew Cope.

Chapter 9: Moz: art: Adorno Meets Morrissey in the Cultural Divisions
Rachel M. Brett.

Chapter 10: Speedway for Beginners: Morrissey, Martyrdom and Ambiguity
Eoin Devereux and Aileen Dillane.

Chapter 11: No Love in Modern Life: Matters of Performance and 
Production in a Morrissey Song. Eirik Askerøi.

Chapter 12: 'Vicar In A Tutu': Dialogism, Iconicity and the Carnivalesque in
Morrissey. Pierpaolo Martino.

Chapter 13: Smiths Night: A Dream World Created Through Other People's 
Music. Dan Jacobson and Ian Jeffrey.

Chapter 14: Talent Borrows, Genius Steals: Morrissey and the Art of 
Appropriation. Lee Brooks

Chapter 15: 'I'm Not The Man You Think I Am': Morrissey's Negotiation of 
Dominant Gender and Sexuality Codes. Elisabeth Woronzoff.

Chapter 16: Melodramatic Morrissey: Kill Uncle, Cavell and the Question 
of the
Human Voice. Johanna Sjöstedt.

Chapter 17: 'You Have Killed Me' -- Tropes of Hyperbole and 
Sentimentality in
Morrissey's Musical Expression. Stan Hawkins.