Date published: 2005/03/28
The BBC says:
Iconic 1980s indie group The Smiths are to be studied at an academic conference in Manchester, their home town.
The four-piece band, led by famously miserable singer Morrissey, will be analysed by scholars from around the world for two days next week.
The symposium, called Why Pamper Life's Complexities, will aim to assess the band's social, cultural, political and musical impact.
The Smiths are considered one of the most influential bands of the decade.
The academics will reflect on the influence of Morrissey's lyrics on gender and sexuality, race and nationality and the imagination of class.
The band will also be discussed in terms of aesthetics, fan cultures and musical innovation at Manchester Metropolitan University on 8 and 9 April.
More useless time wasting. Divert this money to real research (i.e. science). In any case, as everyone knows, New Order were much better than the Smiths.
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