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Morrissey - The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Hardcover)
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Morrissey - The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Hardcover)
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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 revolutionised the world of British pop. As an
increasingly pugnacious solo artist, he consistently adopts the
outsider's perspective and dares us to confront genuinely
uncomfortable subjects. In his brilliant and original 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 - from its beginning in the early
80s with the Smiths to the release of his latest album, "Ringleader
of the Tormentors" - 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 dramatised 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. In the course of this
penetrating study of Morrissey's oeuvre, Hopps offers close
readings of individual lyrics and illuminating comparisons with a
range of literary figures - such as Lord Byron, Mary Shelley,
George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Paul
Celan and Philip Larkin. "Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding
Heart", at once erudite and accessible, argues convincingly for
Morrissey's inclusion in the pantheon of literary greats.
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