About the Book
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Next Door (1976-1980), to the spoken-word recording, The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998), to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman project (2008), Cave's career spans thirty years and has produced a comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media interest in Cave, there have been remarkably few comprehensive appraisals of his work, its significance and its impact on understandings of popular culture. In addressing this absence, the present volume is both timely and necessary.Cultural Seeds brings together an international range of scholars and practitioners, each of whom is uniquely placed to comment on an aspect of Cave's career. The essays collected here not only generate new ways of seeing and understanding Cave's contributions to contemporary culture, but set up a dialogue between fields all-too-often separated in the academy and in the media.
Topics include Cave and the Presley myth; the aberrant masculinity projected by The Birthday Party; the postcolonial Australian-ness of his humour; his interventions in film and his erotics of the sacred. These essays offer compelling insights and provocative arguments about the fluidity of contemporary artistic practice.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword, Monty Raphael. Book overview and structure, Alan Doig; Part I Themes, Trends and Perspectives: Trends and costs of fraud, Michael Levi; Why commit fraud?, Martin Gill and Janice Goldstraw-White; The changing fraud environment, Stephen Low; Policing and regulating financial services, Peter Wright; Policing and regulating the professionals, David Middleton; Non-law enforcement approaches to the investigation of fraud, Steve Phillips; Accounts and management fraud, Ian Trumper; Law enforcement approaches to the investigation of fraud, Jen Williams. Part II Fraud: How to Investigate…: Criminal fraud, Clive Barnes; Corporate fraud, Jim Jolly; Local government benefit fraud, John Rosenbloom; Procurement fraud, Paul Guile; Company investigations, John Edwards; Charity fraud, Paul Fredericks and Matthew Rowe; Solicitor fraud, Barry Cotter; Insurance fraud, Les Dobie; Telecoms fraud, Richard Lines; Employee fraud, John Armstrong; Bribery and corruption, Mike Betts; Fraud as a financial investigation, Chris Batt; Using intelligence, Alan Bacarese and Roger Critchell; Using the internet as an investigative tool, Adele Sumner; Using digital forensics, Edward Wilding and Aaron Stowell. Part III Prevention: Managing fraud risk in a regulated environment, Michelle Green; The role of corporate governance, George Kelly; The role of audit, Fred Hutchinson; Whistleblowing, Derek Purdy; How to prevent internal fraud, Di Cave. Part IV Sanction Routes: The disciplinary route, Gillian Burns and Jamie Gamble; The confiscation route, Phillip Mobedji; The civil route, Eoin O'Shea; The prosecution route, Alan May; References; Index.
About the Author :
Alan Doig is Visiting Professor, Centre for Public Services Management, Liverpool Business School and Hon. Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime UNCAC mentor in Thailand, and Resident Advisor for the Council of Europe Prevention of Corruption project for Turkey. He has been Professor of Public Services Management at Teesside Business School and Liverpool Business School where he ran the Fraud Management Studies Units which taught the only MAs in Fraud Managment and Financial Investigation and Financial Crime in the UK for police, and public and private sector fraud practitioners.
He has written and edited books on Fraud; Corruption and Democratisation; Sleaze: Politics, Private Interests and Public Reaction; and Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics. He has served as a Board member of the Standards Board of England, is a Director of the North-east Fraud Forum, was a member of the Group of Specialists on Public Ethics at Local level, Steering Committee on Local and Regional Democracy, Council of Europe, and was the Editor and part-author of the original UNODC Technical Guide for the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Monty Raphael, Alan Doig, Michael Levi, Martin Gill, Janice Goldstraw-White, Stephen Low, Peter Wright, David Middleton, Steve Phillips, Ian Trumper, Jen Williams, Jim Jolly, John Rosenbloom, Paul Guile, John Edwards, Paul Fredericks, Matthew Rowe, Barry Cotter, Les Dobie, Richard Lines, John Armstrong, Mike Betts, Chris Batt, Alan Bacarese, Roger Critchell, Adele Sumner, Edward Wilding, Aaron Stowell, Michelle Green, George Kelly, Fred Hutchinson, Derek Purdy, Di Cave, Gillian Burns, Jamie Gamble, Phillip Mobedji, Eoin O'Shea, Alan May.
Review :
These readings range from the highly theorized to the personal, produced from immensely diverse intellectual positions, addressing the full range of their protean subject. They illuminate Cave's oeuvre in a complex and comprehensive critical light. This is, and will almost certainly remain, the most multi-faceted compilation in Nick Cave studies.'Bruce Johnson, Turku University, Finland, Macquarie University, Australia and Glasgow University, UK'[T]hese essays are a necessary start for a consideration of the abundantly provocative works of Nick Cave.' Popular Music
