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An influential star of British pop for more than three decades, Morrissey is known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity, and sexuality. Among critics and his many fans, he has long been seen as an anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke devotion, argument, and spirited debate. This is the first collection of academic essays to focus exclusively on Morrissey’s solo career, and this important book offers a nuanced and rich reading of his highly influential creative and cultural output. Covering a broad range of academic disciplines and approaches, including musicology, ethnography, sociology, and cultural studies, these essays will be a must for fans of Morrissey or the Smiths, or those seeking to make sense of the many fascinating complexities of this global icon and controversial figure.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Eoin Devereux is assistant dean of research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Limerick. He is also adjunct professor in contemporary culture at the University of Jyvasklya, Finland. He is founding director of the Power, Discourse and Society and the Popular Music and Popular Culture research clusters at the University of Limerick. He specializes in the sociology of media and has published extensively on mass media, fandom and media representations of the social world, including: Understanding the Media (2014); with A. Dillane and M. Power, David Bowie: Critical Perspectives (2015); and with A. Dillane and M. Power, Morrissey: Fandom, Representations, Identities (2011).
Aileen Dillane is a lecturer in music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, the University of Limerick. She has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and Century Fellow. Her research interests include sociological understandings of music; ethnicity, identity and performativity in the traditional, vernacular and popular music of Ireland, North American and Australia; urban soundscapes; and music and the utopian impulse. She is co-founder and co-director of Limerick SoundScapes and of the Popular Music and Popular Culture, and the Power, Discourse and Society research clusters at the University of Limerick. Select publications include: with E. Devereux and M. Power, David Bowie: Critical Perspectives (2015); and ‘Compositing identity, fiddling with (post-)ethnicity: Liz Carroll’s “Lake Effect”’, MUSICultures (2013, 40:1, pp. 7–34).
Eoin Devereux is a senior lecturer and head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick. Aileen Dillane is a performer and lecturer in music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. Martin Power teaches sociology at the University of Limerick.
