Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known...
19.76 CAD

An influential star of British pop for more than three decades, Morrissey is known for his outspoken and often controversial views on ...
34.65 CAD

The first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey''''s career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker.
15.16 CAD

Bill Morrissey
18.99 CAD

The Best Of Morrissey *
14.99 CAD

Morrissey in Conversation
17.44 CAD

Known for his outspoken and often controversial views on class, ethnicity and sexuality, Morrissey has remained an anti-establishment figure who continues to provoke argument, debate and devotion amongst critics and his many fans. Focusing exclusively on Morrissey’s solo career, the collected essays in this important book make for a rich reading of Morrissey and his highly influential creative output. 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 of this global icon.
20.00 USD

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 an increasingly pugnacious solo artist, too, 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 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.  . 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.
24.95 USD

Morrissey - The Solo Years
18.99 CAD

Maximum Morrissey & the Smiths
14.89 CAD