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Morrissey - The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Paperback)
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Morrissey - The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Paperback)
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This is the first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career
- as a writer, performer, and troublemaker. Morrissey is arguably
the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more
than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic
gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early
bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his
subversive endorsement of celibacy, abstinence and rock 'n' roll
revolutionized the world of British pop. As a solo artist, too, he
consistently adopts the outsider's perspective and dares us to
confront uncomfortable subjects. In his brilliant book, Gavin Hopps
examines the work of this compelling performer, whose intelligence,
humour, suffering and awkwardness have fascinated audiences around
the world for the last 25 years. Hopps traces the trajectory of
Morrissey's career and outlines the contours and contradictions of
the singer's elusive persona. The book illuminates Morrissey's
coyness (how can he remain a mystery when he tells us too much?) ,
his dramatized melancholy (surely more of a radical existential
protest than the gimmick some believe it to be), and his complex
attitudes towards loneliness and alienation, as well as his
intriguing sense of the religious.
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