Heart and soul : critical essays on Joy Division / edited by Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux and Aileen Dillane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Power, Martin J., editor.

Devereux, Eoin, editor.

Dillane, Aileen, editor.

Series:

Popular musics matter: social, political and cultural interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-punk music--England--History and criticism.

Post-punk music.

Rock music--England--1971-1980--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Joy Division (Musical group).

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction: This Is the way, step inside: understanding Joy Division

Part 1. Dead souls : hauntology and Faustian contracts. Missions of dead souls : a hauntology of the industrial, modernism and esotericism in the music of Joy Division / Michael Goddard. Tony Wilson's bloody contract : a re-enactment of the Faustian bargain / Dan Jacobson and Ian Jeffrey

Part 2. Ballard, Burroughs, Dostoevsky and Gogol : literary (and visual) influences on Joy Division. Trying to find a clue, trying to find a way to get out! : the European imaginary of Joy Division / Giancomo Bottà. Literary influences on Joy Division : J. G. Ballard, Franz Kafka, Dostoevsky / Sara Martínez. "Possessed by a fury that burns from inside" : on Ian Curtis's lyrics / Uwe Schütte

Part 3. Joy Division and mental health. In a lonely place : illness and the temporal exile of Ian Curtis / Tiffany Naiman. Communication breakdown : inarticulacy and the significance of "transmission" / J. Rubén Valdés Miyares. This is the crisis I knew had to come : revisiting Ian Curtis's suicide / Erin Devereux, Walter Cullen and David Meagher

Part 4. Interzone : sounds, images and style. Joy Division in space : the aesthetics of estrangement / Robin Parmar. Manchester, Martin Hannett and Joy Division's pungent architecture / John S. Greenwood and Paul Tarpey. Nothing here now but the recordings : the moving image record of Joy Division and the Factory Video Unit / Nick Cope

Part 5. Cultural legacies. Mining for counterculture / Colin Malcolm. "I hung around in your soundtrack" : affinities with Joy Division among contemporary Iranian musicians / Gay Jennifer Breyley. As if it never happened : the posteconomy of Joy Division and Ian Curtis / Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

Part 6. Temptation, transmission and transitions. Things that aren't there : spectral presences in musical absences : the transition from Joy Division to New Order / Kieran Cashell.

Notes:

Includes discography, filmography, bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Heart and soul

ISBN:

9781786603340

1786603349

9781786603357

1786603357

OCLC:

1035367767

Publisher Number:

99978843201