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

MARK E. SMITH AND THE FALL: ART, MUSIC AND POLITICS

Edited by

MICHAEL GODDARD and BENJAMIN HALLIGAN
University of Salford, UK

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Mark E. Smith and The Fall : art, music and politics.

(Ashgate popular and folk music series)

1. Smith, Mark E. Criticism and interpretation. 2. Fall (Musical group)

I. Series II. Goddard, Michael, 1965 III. Halligan, Benjamin, 1971.

782.421660922dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mark E. Smith and The Fall : art, music and politics / [edited by] Michael Goddard and

Benjamin Halligan.

p. cm.(Ashgate popular and folk music series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-6862-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)ISBN 978-0-7546-6867-1

(pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Smith, Mark E., 1957 Mar. 5Criticism and interpretation. 2. Rock music
EnglandHistory and criticism. 3. Fall (Musical group) I. Goddard, Michael, 1965
II. Halligan, Benjamin, 1971.

ML420.S6716M37 2009
782.421660922dc22

2009046894

ISBN: 978-0-754-66862-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-754-66867-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-59395-1 (ebk)

Michael Goddard and Benjamin Halligan

Richard Witts

Katie Hannon

Mark Goodall

Andy Wood

Richard Osborne

Robert Walker

Owen Hatherley

Mark Fisher

Paul Wilson

Robin Purves

Martin Myers

Angus McDonald

Paul Long

Chris Atton

Janice Kearns and Dean Lockwood

Chris Atton: Professor of Media and Culture in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University. His long-standing research into alternative media is interdisciplinary, drawing on sociology, journalism, cultural studies, politics and studies in popular music. He is the author of four books, has published numerous papers and is a frequent contributor to edited collections. He has edited special issues on alternative media for Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism and Media, Culture and Society. He is currently researching British post-punk fanzines.

Mark Fisher: Regular contributor to The Wire, Sight and Sound, Fact magazine and Frieze and a founding member of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit but best known for his Weblog, http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org. Currently he is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Michael Goddard: Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Salford. His current research centres on East European cinema and visual culture. He has done research into Deleuzes aesthetic and film theories, which has resulted in a number of publications. He is now researching a book on the cinema of the Chilean-born filmmaker Ral Ruiz. Another strand of his research concerns Italian post-autonomist political thought and media theory, particularly the work of Franco Berardi (Bifo). He is also pursuing research into the fringes of popular music in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly groups such as The Fall, Throbbing Gristle and Laibach.

Mark Goodall: Lecturer in media communications at the University of Bradford. He is the author of Sweet and Savage: The World through the Shockumentary Film Lens (Headpress) and is a founder member of The Firminists, an experimental writing group. He is the lead singer/guitarist in the beat group Rudolf Rocker whose song Voodoo Lady was written for The League of Gentlemens imaginary rock group Crme Brle.

Benjamin Halligan: Director of the Graduate School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford. His critical biography Michael Reeves (Manchester University Press) was published in 2003. Other areas of recent publication include Andrei Tarkovskys aesthetics, Socialist Realism, the influence of disco on 1970s sci-fi, new questions of theatre etiquette and the Sarajevo Documentary School. He is currently preparing a study of the militant European films of 1968 and an edited collection Sights and Sounds: interrogating the Music Documentary (Edinburgh University Press), with David Sanjek.

Katie Hannon: A Fall enthusiast, a Pisces and holds a Masters in American Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester. She lives in Chicago with her partner, two cats and a lot of records.

Owen Hatherley: A researcher in political aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and a contributor to Blueprint, the New Statesman and The Wire.

Janice Kearns: Senior Lecturer in Media Production at the University of Lincoln, England. A fan of The Fall, she teaches video production and scriptwriting and has a background in broadcast documentaries. Janice has more recently come to media theory and has just completed an MA in Media and Cultural Studies. In her postgraduate studies, she became concerned with the difficulties and debates around the critical analysis of popular cultural artefacts. Her research interests relate to popular television in particular.

Dean Lockwood: Senior Lecturer in Media Theory in the School of Media at the University of Lincoln, England. Seeing The Fall in 1979 was a formative experience. He co-ordinates and teaches theory modules on Media Production and Audio Production degree programmes and MA programmes in Media and Cultural Studies and Digital Imaging. Recent and forthcoming publications include chapters in edited collections on the spectacle of the real, computer games and twenty-first century Gothic, and journal articles on torture porn and Korean horror.

Paul Long: Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Theory in the Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University. His published work has concerned topics as varied as Charles Parker, DJ John Peel and popular music radio, local history and the cultural politics and redevelopment of his hometown of Birmingham. His book