Always Different, Always the Same

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.

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.

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