Review This book as a whole conveys how the band drew from canonized literature as credibly as they did from what popular culture's own bourgeoisie have more recently called 'guilty' pleasures. Each chapter differently suggests how to listen to The Smiths is to listen to a sublimely subjective history of culture itself, in which supposed distinctions between 'high' and 'popular' are unostentatiously rejected. The essays thus work superbly as a collection, displaying how, via The Smiths, Sandie Shaw meets Oscar Wilde, Guy Fawkes joins T. Rex, Andy Warhol enters Coronation Street and George Formby harmonises with Kazem Al Saher. -- . About the Author Sean Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Media at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge. Colin Coulter is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth -- .
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Get it. It Analyzes The Smiths in an unconventional musicologist way. This is not a book about anectdotes, tough it has some, it's a book that's focused on analyzing various aspects of the history of The Smiths. I hihly recommend it.
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