Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life Contributor(s): Redhead, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138705071 ISBN-13: 9781138705074 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Sociology - General - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
Dewey: 306.483 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of 'the people's game'. Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology. Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies. |