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  • Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Felice Yuen ...
    Series series Research Handbooks in Sociology series
    This incisive Research Handbook investigates the complex and multifaceted field of the sociology of leisure. Expert authors explore the social meaning and purpose of leisure in an era defined by postmodernity, post-industrialism, globalization, and digitalization.The Handbook firstly reflects on the history of leisure studies, moving on to analyse its connection to post-structuralism, racism, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Popular Music in Leeds

    Histories, Heritage, People and Places

    Edited by Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Kitty Ross, Paul Thompson ...
    Series series Urban Music Studies
    This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment.The city has ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Positive Sociology of Leisure

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Edited by Shintaro Kono, Anju Beniwal, Priyanka Baweja, Karl Spracklen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness.Defined as an area of research that examines social aspects of leisure life with a focus on the optimal functioning of relationship, group, community, organization, and other social units, PSL differs from more critical forms of sociology ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Metal Music and the Re-imagining of Masculinity, Place, Race and Nation

    by Karl Spracklen ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture
    Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power.The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House has shown that angry white men still wield huge social and cultural power in this new century. The aim of this ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Exploring Sports and Society

    A Critical Introduction for Students

    by Karl Spracklen ...
    What is the relationship between sports and society? How can we understand sport in relation to physical activities, leisure and physical culture? In this far-reaching and inter-disciplinary textbook, Karl Spracklen brings together ideas and research from sports studies, sociology, cultural studies, history, philosophy and psychology, in order to explore the meaning and purpose of sports in ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Critical Event Studies

    by Karl Spracklen, Ian R. Lamond ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    Within events management, events are commonly categorised within two axes, size and content. Along the size axis events range between the small scale and local, through major events, which garner greater media interest, to internationally significant hallmark and mega events such as the Edinburgh Festival and the Tour de France. Content is frequently divided into three forms – culture, sport or ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Protests as Events

    Politics, Activism and Leisure

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Ian R Lamond ...
    Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events?Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories—culture, sport or business. Such a typology can be helpful as a heuristic for interpretation and analysis within a commercial paradigm ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience

    by Keith Kahn-Harris, Deena Weinstein, Esther Clinton, Brian Hickam, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Sigrid Mendoza, Eric Morales, Bradley J. Nelson, Jeffrey S. Podoshen, Jihan Raban, Paula Rowe, Karl Spracklen, Méi-Ra St. Laurent, Tieja Thomas, Christopher Thompson, Kathryn Urbaniak, Vivek Venkatesh, Jason J. Wallin, Jeremy Wallach ...
    It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Goth Culture

    The Origins and Deeds of the New Goths

    by Karl Spracklen, Beverley Spracklen ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization
    The origins and deeds of the old Goths were constructed by Roman historians in fear of the Goth as a barbarian outsider; at the same time, the Goths were themselves the heroic subject of their own histories, constructed by their supporters as stories of their mythical origin and the deeds that led them to be rulers of their own kingdoms in post-Roman Late Antiquity. Who the old Goths were, their ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture

    Communities and Identities in a Digital Age

    by Karl Spracklen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for digital leisure. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sounds and the City

    Volume 2

    Edited by Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, Karl Spracklen, M. Selim Yavuz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places, and shifting social relations, asking what popular music can tell us about cities, and vice versa.Since the publication of the first ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe, Spencer Swain ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx. Drawing on contributions from experts in leisure studies from around the world, ... Read more

    $287.99 USD