Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Heart & Soul: Critical Essays On Joy Division (Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions)

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Heart and SoulCritical Essays on Joy DivisionBy Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux, Aileen DillaneRowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.Copyright © 2018 Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux and Aileen DillaneAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-78660-335-7ContentsList of Figures and Tables, ix, Permissions, xi, Foreword, xv, Introduction: This Is the Way, Step Inside: Understanding Joy Division Martin J. Power, Aileen Dillane and Eoin Devereux, xvii, PART 1: DEAD SOULS: HAUNTOLOGY AND FAUSTIAN CONTRACTS, 1, 1 Missions of Dead Souls: A Hauntology of the Industrial, Modernism and Esotericism in the Music of Joy Division Michael Goddard, 3, 2 Tony Wilson's Bloody Contract: A Re-enactment of the Faustian Bargain Dan Jacobson and Ian Jeffrey, 17, PART 2: BALLARD, BURROUGHS, DOSTOEVSKY AND GOGOL: LITERARY (AND VISUAL) INFLUENCES ON JOY DIVISION, 31, 3 Trying to Find a Clue, Trying to Find a Way to Get Out! The European Imaginary of Joy Division Giacomo Bottà, 33, 4 Literary Influences on Joy Division: J. G. Ballard, Franz Kafka, Dostoevsky Sara Martínez, 47, 5 'Possessed by a Fury That Burns from Inside': On Ian Curtis's Lyrics Uwe Schütte, 63, PART 3: JOY DIVISION AND MENTAL HEALTH, 81, 6 In a Lonely Place: Illness and the Temporal Exile of Ian Curtis Tiffany Naiman, 83, 7 Communication Breakdown: Inarticulacy and the Significance of "Transmission" J. Rubén Valdés Miyares, 99, 8 This Is the Crisis I Knew Had to Come: Revisiting Ian Curtis's Suicide Eoin Devereux, Walter Cullen and David Meagher, 115, PART 4: INTERZONE: SOUNDS, IMAGES AND STYLE, 131, 9 Joy Division in Space: The Aesthetics of Estrangement Robin Parmar, 133, 10 Manchester, Martin Hannett and Joy Division's Pungent Architecture John S. Greenwood and Paul Tarpey, 155, 11 Nothing Here Now but the Recordings: The Moving Image Record of Joy Division and the Factory Video Unit Nick Cope, 171, PART 5: CULTURAL LEGACIES, 193, 12 Mining for Counterculture Colin Malcolm, 195, 13 'I Hung around in Your Soundtrack': Affinities with Joy Division among Contemporary Iranian Musicians Gay Jennifer Breyley, 209, 14 As If It Never Happened: The Posteconomy of Joy Division and Ian Curtis Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, 229, PART 6: TEMPTATION, TRANSMISSION AND TRANSITIONS, 243, 15 Things That Aren't There: Spectral Presences in Musical Absences – The Transition from Joy Division to New Order Kieran Cashell, 245, Discography/Filmography, 267, Bibliography, 271, Contributor Biographies, 297, Index, 303, CHAPTER 1Missions of Dead SoulsA Hauntology of the Industrial, Modernism and Esotericism in the Music of Joy DivisionMichael GoddardJoy Division, relative to its Manchester post-punk contemporaries, has often been seen in proximity to industrial music, a perception reinforced by Genesis P-Orridge's claims that Curtis was a Throbbing Gristle fan particularly appreciative of the former's track 'Weeping' from their DOA: Third and Final Report album (1978). P-Orridge returned this fandom by referring directly to Ian Curtis in Psychic TV's much later track 'I.C. Water' (Psychic TV 1990) and reiterating their personal connection in several interviews and other texts (see, e.g., Ravens and P-Orridge 2013). P-Orridge claimed to have been one of the last people to talk to Curtis on the phone and compared the misunderstanding of Curtis's bandmates of the seriousness of his psychological suffering and epilepsy with his own treatment by the other members of Throbbing Gristle. However, the recently published and fairly damning account of P-Orridge's own behaviour in Coey Fanni Tutti's memoir Art Sex Music (Tutti 2017) casts serious doubt on this affinity.This chapter will argue that beyond this purported personal connection between the two groups, and Ian Curtis and Genesis P-Orridge as individuals, the resonances between Joy Division and industrial music run deeper through the ways that both were haunted by postindustrial cityscapes, modernist literature (e