Always Different, Always the Same

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.

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.

• 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 DevereuxChapter 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