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Author:   Eoin Devereux ,  Martin J. Power ,  Gavin Friday
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781538165355

ISBN 10:   153816535
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword: (Gavin Friday) Introduction: Mr Sociological Memory Man (Martin Power and Eoin Devereux) Chapter 1: Spoiling all the Paintwork: Mark E. Smith, Art Renegade (K. A. Laity) Chapter 2: Suzanne Smith in Conversation with Eoin Devereux Chapter 3: ‘A letter so simple, yet disgusting in a stroke’: writing-out the (typo) graphic strangeness of The Fall (Paul Wilson) Chapter 4: Psykick Dancehall – the paranormal world of Mark E. Smith and The Fall (Ben Lawley) Chapter 5: ‘You can leave me on the shelf’: The death of The Fall and Mark E. Smith (Martin Myers) Chapter 6: Dead Beat Descendant: Mark E Smith’s Life, Death and Mourning as a Cult Hero (John Fleming) Chapter 7: “What’s a computer?” Corpus linguistic software v the complete Fall lyrics. (Matt Davies) Chapter 8: Searching for the right word or phrase that would put a chill up the spine… Investigating the lyrics of Mark E. Smith using thematic and corpus-based discourse analyses. (Elaine Vaughan, Brian Clancy and Eoin Devereux) Chapter 9: I Am Damo Suzuki Lost In Music. (Mike Glennon) Chapter 10: Remembrancer/Rememorator/Amorator: Oblique Tactics and Clear Intentions in The Fall's The Remainderer EP. (Samuel Flannagan) Chapter 11: Literary Perversion. (Kieran Cashel) Chapter 12: The Fall In Ireland (Michael Mary Murphy) Chapter 13: Montagu Lomax and The Fall: ‘The Madness in My Area’ (David Meagher and John McFarland)

Reviews

At last! The brilliant, wry and acerbic Mark E. Smith gets a book that perfectly captures the multi-dimensional, complicated and always fascinating artist he was. Eoin Devereux and Martin Power's Always Different, Always the Same: Critical Essays on the Fall provide a well-rounded portrait of the Mancunian legend that will thrill die-hard fans and new converts alike.--Dr. Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, author of Being Britney and You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone

At last! The brilliant, wry and acerbic Mark E. Smith gets a book that perfectly captures the multi-dimensional, complicated and always fascinating artist he was. Eoin Devereux and Martin Power's Always Different, Always the Same: Critical Essays on the Fall provide a well-rounded portrait of the Mancunian legend that will thrill die-hard fans and new converts alike.

Author Information

Eoin Devereux is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland and Adjunct Professor in Contemporary Culture at the University of Jyvasklya, Finland. Martin J. Power is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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