Always Different, Always the Same

Critical Essays on The Fall

Eoin Devereux, Martin J. Power

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781538165362
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Ethnomusicology

The Fall, led by Mark E. Smith, were one of the most intriguing, influential, and prolific post-punk groups in British popular culture. Always Different, Always the Same: Critical Essays on The Fall is a thorough and critical account of the group, engaging with the often complex and challenging creative work. In this groundbreaking text, volume editors Eoin Devereux and Martin J. Power bring together contributions from a wide variety of disciplinary homes, including ethnomusicology, sociology, literary theory, linguistics, journalism, cultural studies, and film and media studies.

Contributors
Kieran Cashell, Brian Clancy, Matt Davies, Eoin Devereux, Samuel Flannagan, John Fleming, Gavin Friday, Mike Glennon, K. A. Laity, Ben Lawley, John McFarland, David Meagher, Michael Mary Murphy, Martin Myers, Martin J. Power, Suzanne Smith, Elaine Vaughan, Paul Wilson.

Table of contents

• Foreword Gavin Friday
• Introduction: Mr Sociological Memory Man … Martin J. Power and Eoin Devereux
• 1 Spoiling all the Paintwork: Mark E. Smith, Art Renegade K. A. Laity
• 2 Suzanne Smith in Conversation with Eoin Devereux
• 3 ‘A letter so simple, yet disgusting in a stroke’: Writing-out the (Typo)Graphic Strangeness of The Fall Paul Wilson
• 4 Psykick Dancehall: The Paranormal Strategies of Mark E. Smith and The Fall Ben Lawley
• 5 ‘You can leave me on the shelf’: The Death of The Fall and Mark E. Smith Martin Myers
• 6 Dead Beat Descendant: Mark E. Smith’s Life, Death, and Mourning as a Cult Hero John Fleming
• 7 “What’s a computer?” Intuition Meets the Science Law in a Complete Fall Lyrics Corpus Matt Davies
• 8 Searching for the Right Word or Phrase that Would Put a Chill Up the Spine: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of Mark E. Smith’s Lyrics Elaine Vaughan, Brian Clancy, and Eoin Devereux
• 9 I Am Damo Suzuki Lost in Music (Dub) Mike Glennon
• 10 Remembrancer/Rememorator/Amorator!: The Remainderer EP and the Roots of The Fall’s Late Obscurity Samuel Flannagan
• 11 Linguistic Perversion: Ezra Pound and The Fall Kieran Cashell
• 12 The Fall and Ireland: What a Manchester Band Can Tell Us about Ireland and Its Music Scene Michael Mary Murphy
• 13 The Madness in My Area: Montagu Lomax and the Psychodrama of The Fall: An Examination of the Use of Psychiatric Imagery in ‘Early Fall’77–’79’ David Meagher and John McFarland
• About the Editors and Contributors