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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Eoin Devereux and Martin J. Power - Foreword by Gavin Friday Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Fall’s significant contribution to music. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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) ...
