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  • Exploring Sports and Society

    A Critical Introduction for Students

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture

    Communities and Identities in a Digital Age

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Goth Culture

    The Origins and Deeds of the New Goths

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Critical Event Studies

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Protests as Events

    Politics, Activism and Leisure

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Popular Music in Leeds

    Histories, Heritage, People and Places

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives

    Edición de Gabby Riches, Karl Spracklen, Spencer Swain ...
    Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses in Europe, is a collection of narratives, myths, stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture, Northern culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an inauthentic South, a source of working-class identity, and a source of elite ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Sounds and the City

    Volume 2

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces

    Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization

    Edición de Samantha Holland, Karl Spracklen ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization
    Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter culture in 1960s America (though there were earlier forms of alternative cultures in America and other ... Leer más

    $96.99 USD