Goodbye to Morrissey – An Essay on Art and Morals

Cover design: Marie Dekeersmaecker

 

Goodbye to Morrissey is a case study about what it means in Pop culture to place trust in someone, to be their fan. As such, it deals on the surface with the political and ethical conflict exemplified by the swing of the singer Morrissey to the radical right. On a deeper level, it treats the fundamental questions accompanying Morrissey’s shift: the relationship between art and morality, idol and adherent, critique and myth. Superficiality and profundity — Pop and philosophy — illuminate each other in one provocative essay.

Goodbye to Morrissey – An Essay on Art and Morals

translated from the German by John R. J. Eyck

192 p., Grafische Cel, Ghent, 2021

Copyright Bookshop, Ghent
Perimeter Books, Melbourne