Always Different, Always the Same

Critical Essays on The Fall
Herausgeber: Devereux, Eoin; Power, Martin J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Fall were one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British post-punk scene. Drawing upon a wide range of academic disciplines, including ethnomusicology, sociology, literary theory, linguistics, journalism, cultural studies, and film and media studies, this book investigates The Fallâ s significant contribution to music.

Produktdetails

• Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781538165355
• ISBN-10: 153816535X
• Artikelnr.: 65832834

Autorenporträt

Eoin Devereux is a Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Contemporary Culture at the University of Jyvasklya, Finland. Professor Devereux is a co-director of the Centre for the Study of Popular Music and Popular Culture at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Martin J. Power is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is a co-director of the Centre for the Study of Popular Music and Popular Culture at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

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 A