Always Different, Always the Same

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

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Produktbeschreibung

The Fall were one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British post-punk scene. This groundbreaking text is a thorough and critical examination drawing on a wide variety of disciplines including ethnomusicology, sociology, literary theory, linguistics, journalism, cultural studies, and film and media studies.

Produktdetails

• Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781538199220
• ISBN-10: 153819922X
• Artikelnr.: 70243252

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 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)