Sociology: sport and leisure Books

Book SynopsisThis book is the first to explore and compare football governance, fandom culture and supporter engagement in Europe. With a specific focus on supporter activism and campaigning, the collection provides a comparative study of several European countries. The authors argue that supporters, despite being the pillar or the ‘lifeblood’ of their club, see their role in football governance marginalised. The volume is unique in that it challenges the widely accepted assumption that membership football clubs encourage the democratic participation of supporters.Covering football fandom in both the traditional ‘big five’ leagues and non-‘big five’ countries such as Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, Poland and Czech Republic, the volume will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, history, sport management, sport governance and political science.Trade Review“The book is structured simply but clearly. The individual contributions are well-written and up-to-date in terms of literature and material. … It is highly stimulating that the book also provides references to approaches of comparative politics that so far have not (or just to a minor extent) been attributed to sport studies.” (Jürgen Mittag, Moving the Social, Vol. 61, 2019)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Borja García and Jinming Zheng.- Part I: Football Governance and Supporter Activism in the ‘Big Five’ European leagues .- 1. The Great Transformation of the English Game: Karl Polanyi and the Double Movement ‘Against Modern Football’.- David M. Webber.- 2. ‘I love going to watch Norwich’: The Experiences of a Transgender Football Fan; Jayne Caudwell.- 3. The Italian Ultras: From Local Divisions to National Co-Operation; Mark Doidge.- 4. Football Supporters’ Trusts in Italy: A Horizontal Survey and the Case of Sambenedettese; Osvaldo Croci.- Well Governed? Fan Representation in German Professional Football Clubs; Daniel Ziesche.- 6. C.A. Osasuna: Identity, Ownership and Governance in Spanish Club Football; Jim O’Brien.- Part II: Football Governance and Supporter Activism outside the 'Big Five’ European leagues.- 7. Football Club Ownership Model in the Republic of Croatia – A Possible Model for Supporters' Inclusion in Football Governance in South-East Europe?; Siniša Petrović, Marko Ivkošić, Petar Ceronja.- 8. Beyond the Pattern: Corruption, Hooligans, and Football Governance in Croatia; Loïc Tregoures.- 9. Benfica TV: Taking Control of the Communication Process; Fernando Borges.- 10. Between Civic Engagement and Politics: A Case Study of Bohemians Prague 1905 Supporters’ Trust; Dino Numerato.- 11. From the Bottom to the Premiership: The Significance of Supporters’ Movement in the Governance of Football Clubs in Poland; Radosław Kossakowski.- 12. Supporter Ownership in Turkish Football; Emir Güney.- Conclusions: The rising importance of supporter activism in European football; Jinming Zheng and Borja García.

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Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Forschungsstand.- Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen.- Untersuchungsanlage und Methode.- Darstellung und Analyse der Projektprozessverläufe  Empirische Ergebnisse.- Zusammenführung, theoretische Einordnung und Interpretation der empirischen Befunde.- Fazit und Ausblick: Neokorporatistische Verflechtungen im Rahmen staatlicher Förderprojekte.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisFitness and health in neoliberal societies in the reflection of gender, age, and social status.- Health systems and social inequalities in comparison Germany USA.- Fitness studios and demographic change analysis of images of aging, fitness discourses, and trainer expertise.- Methodological foundation and methodological approach.- Interview study with women aged 60-80 in comparison Germany (Kirchzarten/Freiburg) USA (Amherst).- Summary and literature.

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Book SynopsisThe sociology of sport is a relatively new scientific discipline, which has spread rapidly and developed in different directions across the world. It investigates social behavior, social processes, and social structures in sport, as well as the relationship between sport and society. The book Introduction to the Sociology of Sport aims to give its readers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating topic. For this purpose, it shows the interrelations between sport and identity, social class, gender, socialization, social groups, (mass) communication, the economy, and politics. In addition, the book introduces a new, innovative theory that helps readers understand the social specificity and worldwide popularity of sport.Trade Review“In adopting their approach, the authors widen the lens through which to critically study sport. This more global, theoretical, and comparative approach is academically laudable”. J. R. Mitrano, in Choice Connect, 2022.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1  The subject matter of sociology 2  Sociology of sport: subject area, theoretical approaches, and different methods 3  Sport and society 3.1  Sport and culture: values in society and in sport 3.1.1  Sport and civilization 3.2  Expansion of sport, internal differentiation, and trends 4  Socialization and sport 4.1  Gender roles in sport 4.1.1  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intergender (LGBTI) people in sport 4.2  Social stratification in sport 4.2.1  Physical habitus, somatic culture, and social distinction 4.2.2  Sports of the lower social classes 4.2.3  Sports of the upper social classes 5  Sport and the social group 5.1  Social processes in sport groups 5.1.1  Group size and group task in sport 5.1.2  Group cohesion in sport 5.2  Social facilitation 6  Sport, social recognition, and identity 6.1  Anthropological constants 6.1.1  World-openness 6.1.2  Excentricity 6.1.3  Pursuit of recognition 6.1.3.1  Durkheim’s study on suicides 6.2  Social recognition in sport 6.2.1  Recognition as a member of a group 6.2.2  Recognition in an ascribed role 6.2.3  Recognition in an achieved role 6.2.4  Recognition in a public role 6.2.5  Recognition of personal identity 6.3  African Americans in sport 6.4  Action and representation in society and in sport 6.5  Sport as a social phenomenon 7  Violence and doping in sport 8  Towards the joy of play and movement in sport 8.1  The flow experience in sport 9  Sport and communication 10  Sport spectators 10.1  Social integration 10.2  Identification 10.3  Experiencing suspense and showing intense emotions 10.4  Sport and religion 10.5  On aggression among sport spectators 10.5.1  Causes for aggressive behavior 10.5.2  History of violence in spectator sport 11  Sport and mass communication 11.1  Communicator research 11.2  Content analysis 11.2.1  Content analysis of television sport 11.2.2  Content analysis of sport reporting in newspapers 11.2.3  Sport reporting and gender 11.3  Media research 11.4  Audience research 11.4.1  Audience research in the United Kingdom 11.4.2  Audience research in the USA 11.4.3  Audience research in Australia 11.4.4  Motives for consuming media sport 11.5  Impact research 11.5.1  Theory of the omnipotence of the media 11.5.2  Theory of the relative ineffectiveness of the media 12  Sport and the economy 12.1  Sport marketing and mass media 13  Sport and politics 13.1  The power of sport: A theoretical approach 13.2  Sport, social integration, and national self-representation 13.3  Sport as a means of strengthening a nation 13.4  Sport boycotts 13.5  Sport, globalization, and Olympism

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Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible style, with many photographs of important tourist sites and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising. The book discusses topics such as the nature of tourism, different kinds of tourists, the role that myths play in tourism, gratifications from tourism, and travel as a means of personal transformation. It also deals with ocean cruising and considers the notion that cruises are boring, social class and cruising, cruising and addiction, and cruising and the psyche.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abstract Keywords  Preface on the Covid-19 Virus  1 Introduction  2 Aspects of Travel and Tourism  3 Tourists and Travelers  4 The Mind Set of the Traveler  5 Notes on Ocean Cruising  6 Cruising and the Psyche  7 Princess Cruises: A Case Study  8 Coda References

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Book SynopsisSports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies, as well as sections on football and the sacred, the Super Bowl, and the semiotics of televised baseball.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abstract Keywords  1 A Primer on Semiotics  2 Roland Barthes on Professional Wrestling  3 Baseball: Threes, Fours, and Exclusions  4 Fenway Park  5 Football and the Sacred  6 The Semiotics of Televised Baseball  7 The Super Bowl  8 Football: Semiotics, Psyche and Society  9 Coda  Acknowledgments  Reference

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: An overview of the book and methodological design.- Chapter 2 – Gender, race and class: lived experiences of young sporty South Asian women in the Global South diaspora.- Chapter 3 – Intersectional oppression of young Indo-Fijian women: cultural, spatial, and social dimensions.- Chapter 4 – Reinforcing gender traditions: Fijian teachers’ impact on Indo-Fijian girls’ sports.- Chapter 5 - From girmit to game: Indo-Fijian women challenging boundaries in Fijian physical and sporting culture.- Chapter 6 - Conclusion: Intersectional Insights into the Sporting Lives of Young Indo-Fijian Women.

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Book SynopsisDanielle Williams, skydiver and founder of the online community Melanin Base Camp, profiles dozens of adventurers pushing the boundaries of inclusion and equity in the outdoors. These compelling narratives include a mother whose love of hiking led her to found a nonprofit to expose BIPOC children to the wonders of the outdoors and a mountain biker who, despite at first dealing with unwelcome glances and hostility on trails, went on to become a blogger who writes about justice and diversity in natural spaces.Also included is a guide to outdoor allyship that explores sometimes challenging topics to help all of us create a more inclusive community, whether you bike, climb, hike, or paddle. Join us as we work together to increase representation and opportunities for people of color in outdoor adventure sports.

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Book Synopsis"Indispensable history." -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right CallEvery decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade-the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes' gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming-at least within sports-more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports, as athletes, coaches, executives, and spectators. More than politicians, musicians or actors, the decade in America was defined by its most exemplary athletes. The sweeping changes in the decade could be seen in the collective experience of Billie Jean King and Muhammad Ali, Henry Aaron and Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Greene, Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert, among others, who redefined the role of athletes and athletics in American culture. The Seventies witnessed the emergence of spectator sports as an ever-expanding mainstream phenomenon, as well as dramatic changes in the way athletes were paid, portrayed, and packaged. In tracing the epic narrative of how American sports was transformed in the Seventies, a larger story emerges: of how America itself changed, and how spectator sports moved decisively on a trajectory toward what it has become today, the last truly "big tent" in American culture.

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Book SynopsisSport in the Middle East has become a major issue in global affairs. The contributors to this timely volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Eleven chapters trace the historical institutionalisation of sport and the role it has played in negotiating 'Western' culture. Sport is found to be a contested terrain where struggles are being fought over the inclusion of women, over competing definitions of national identity, over preserving social memory, and over press freedom. Also discussed are the implications of mega-sporting events for host countries, and how both elite sport policies and sports industries in the region are being shaped. Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East draws on academic disciplines from the humanities and social sciences to offer in-depth, theoretically grounded, and richly empirical case studies. It employs diverse research methodologies, from ethnography and in-depth interviews to archival research, to make a lasting contribution to this critical subject.Trade Review'[The book] contains a great deal of interest for both students of sport and students of the Middle East.' -- Times Higher Education‘['Sports, Politics and Society in the Middle East'] provides unprecedented insight [and] is essential reading for students not only of sports and/or media but also for those interested in International Affairs, politics and culture, related to the MENA region.’ -- The Muslim World Book Review‘This is a worthy read for students and scholars of comparative politics, sociology, and athletic studies.’ -- CHOICE'A significant contribution to an as yet understudied but crucial aspect of the world's most troubled region. This wide-ranging volume provides invaluable perspectives, as sports increasingly moves centre stage in the Middle East's multiple conflicts.' -- James Dorsey, Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University and author of 'The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer''This groundbreaking volume offers ethnographically rich case studies highlighting the multiple, complex intersections between sports and other arenas in the Middle East: domestic and regional politics, business and economic investments, gender and family, youth culture, and education. This is a key contribution to the literature.' -- Andrea Stanton, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Denver'A must read for students and scholars interested in the study and examination of power dynamics around sport in the Middle East. This volume offers rich insights into everything from ethno-political tensions to gender to modernity to the business of sports.' -- Mahfoud Amara, Associate Professor in Sport Management and Policy, Qatar University‘Looks beyond the headlines and explores the role of sports in general, and soccer in particular, in the evolution of the modern Middle East over the last century … a valuable contribution.’

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Book SynopsisBrazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between football, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and the impact of the sport on social mobility. Contributions to the book range in time from the late nineteenth century, when the British first introduced the sport to Brazil, to the present day, as the 'country of football' prepares itself to host the 2014 World Cup, painting a vivid picture of the many ways in which football exists and functions in Brazil, both on and off the pitch.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the multidisciplinary field of research developed within Brazilian social sciences to study football as a major cultural and social phenomenon in the country. As a contributed volume, it brings together chapters authored by researchers from different disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, political science, history, geography, economy, communication studies and physical education, who contributed to make Brazilian football a multifaceted object of study for the human and social sciences. The book is divided in four parts. The first two parts are dedicated to the "classic" areas, in which the best known research lines are concentrated: part one focuses on politics and history, while part two is dedicated to sociology and anthropology. The third part brings together studies from other four different areas: communication studies, geography, economy and physical education. The fourth part is organized not by disciplines, but around transversal themes, such as gender, violence, fans and racism. The varied approaches and different interpretations brought together in this book seek to provide an overview of the fertile academic debate that has stimulated the renewal of scientific research on football in Brazil, which makes Football and Social Sciences in Brazil a useful resource for researchers from different disciplines within the human and social sciences interested in the study of football as major cultural and social phenomenon all over the world. Table of Contents1.Football as a multifaceted object of academic studies in Brazil.- 2.Football and politics.- 3.“My concern was to play football”: relations between football and dictatorship.- 4.The political dimension of futebol-arte.- 5.1982 World Cup: Democratic winds in Spain and Brazil.-6. Brazilian football and history.- 7.Myths, football and national identity (1930-1983).- 8.Order & Progress on the Grandstands: Sports Journalism and the Genesis of uniformed football fans during the political regime of the Estado Novo (1937-1945).- 9.Sport and society in the writings of Roberto DaMatta.- 10.Neymar, football and the formation of a neoliberal culture.- 11.A modernity that is not complete? Ideas and interpretations about Brazilian football.- 12. FIFA, BRICS and the Soft Power discourse: analysis of the World Cup in South Africa, Brazil and Russia.- 13.Football and anthropology in Brazil.- 14.An ethnographic game of fluid categories of analysis.- 15. Garrincha, Pelé and Maradona: The sporting sacred in times of football icon veneration.- 16.When does the World Cup 2014 event start and end?.- 17.Football and communication studies in Brazil: Fences and crossroads of an indisciplinary field .- 18.Sport and the media in Brazil: vices and virtues of a secular marriage.- 19. World Cups’ geography: urban Brazil in 1950.- 20.Stadiums and arenas as privileged lenses to capture changes in urban space.- 21.The football industry in Brazil.- 22.The controversy over the introduction of the VAR in Brazil.- 23.Life projects, women and football.- 24.Brazil is Hexa: Marta’s Sporting Career.- 25.Gender expressions and the multiple practices of football in Brazil.- 26.Football, violence and democratic politics in Brazil.- 27.Narratives about football hooliganism in Brazil: (De)constructing the label "violent supporter".- 28.The experience of cheering in (so-called) “modern football”.- 29.Brazilian racism in Football.- 30."This is a reality": The racism narrated by black characters in Brazilian football.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Situating NASCAR as a Cultural Space.- Chapter 3: Perceptions of Whiteness in NASCAR's Geographies.- Chapter 4: Black Placemaking in NASCAR Spaces.- Chapter 5: Moving Toward Institutional Change in NASCAR.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDesert Island Discs has run on BBC radio since 1942 and its archive is now accessible. This book is the first to assess the programme from a scholarly perspective. Chapters by musicologists, sociologists, and media scholars are complemented by personal spins by 'castaways', who reflect on talking publicly about the role of music in their lives.

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Book SynopsisFrom EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hoursand dollarspartaking in this popular new brand of escapism. But the line between fantasy and reality is starting to blur. Players have created virtual societies with governments and economies of their own whose currencies now trade against the dollar on eBay at rates higher than the yen. And the players who inhabit these synthetic worlds are starting to spend more time online than at their day jobs. In Synthetic Worlds, Edward Castronova offers the first comprehensive look at the online game industry, exploring its implications for business and culture alike. He starts with the players, giving us a revealing look into the everyday lives of the gamersoutlining what they do in their synthetic worlds and why. He then describes the economies inside these worlds to show how they might dramatically affect real world financial systems, from potential disruptions of markets to new business horizons. Ultimately, he explores the long-term social consequences of online games: If players can inhabit worlds that are more alluring and gratifying than reality, then how can the real world ever compete? Will a day ever come when we spend more time in these synthetic worlds than in our own? Or even more startling, will a day ever come when such questions no longer sound alarmist but instead seem obsolete? With more thanten million active players worldwideand with Microsoft and Sony pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into video game developmentonline games have become too big to ignore. Synthetic Worlds spearheads our efforts to come to terms with this virtual reality and its concrete effects. Illuminating. . . . Castronova's analysis of the economics of fun is intriguing.Virtual-world economies are designed to make the resulting game interesting and enjoyable for their inhabitants. Many games follow a rags-to-riches storyline, for example. But how can all the players end up in the top 10%? Simple: the upwardly mobile human players need only be a subset of the world's population. An underclass of computer-controlled 'bot'citizens, meanwhile, stays poor forever. Mr. Castronovaexplains all this with clarity, wit, and a merciful lack of academic jargon.The EconomistSynthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.Tim Harford, Chronicle of Higher Education

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Book SynopsisA chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation. Fine has spent years immersed in the communities of amateur and professional chess players, and with Players and Pawns he takes readers deep inside them, revealing a complex, brilliant, feisty world of commitment and conflict. Opening with a close look at a typical tournament in Atlantic City, Fine carries us from planning and setup through the climactic final day's match-ups between the weekend's top players, introducing us along the way to countless players and their relationships to the game. At tournaments like that one, as well as in locales as diverse as collegiate matches and communit

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Book SynopsisMidnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men to run around in the wee hours of the night all trying to throw a leather ball through a metal hoop could constitute meaningful social policy. Organized in the 1980s and '90s by dozens of American cities, late-night basketball leagues were designed for social intervention, risk reduction, and crime prevention targeted at African American youth and young men. In Midnight Basketball, Hartmann traces the history of the program and the policy transformations of the period, while exploring the racial ideologies, cultural tensions, and institutional realities that shaped the entire field of sports-based social policy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book also brings to life the actual, on-the-ground

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Book SynopsisIn Argentina, tango isn't just the national music it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by tracing the many ways Argentina draws upon tango as a resource for a wide array of economic, social, and cultural that is to say, non-musical projects. In doing so, he illuminates new facets of all musical culture in an age of expediency when the value and meaning of the arts is less about the arts themselves and more about how they can be used. Luker traces the diverse and often contradictory ways tango is used in Argentina in activities ranging from state cultural policy-making to its export abroad as a cultural emblem, from the expanding nonprofit arts sector to tango-themed urban renewal projects. He shows how projects such as these are not peripheral to an otherwise real tango they are the absolu

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Book SynopsisIn Argentina, tango isn't just the national music it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary Argentine if they ever really listen to it and chances are the answer is no: tango hasn't been popular for more than fifty years. In this book, Morgan James Luker explores that odd paradox by tracing the many ways Argentina draws upon tango as a resource for a wide array of economic, social, and cultural that is to say, non-musical projects. In doing so, he illuminates new facets of all musical culture in an age of expediency when the value and meaning of the arts is less about the arts themselves and more about how they can be used. Luker traces the diverse and often contradictory ways tango is used in Argentina in activities ranging from state cultural policy-making to its export abroad as a cultural emblem, from the expanding nonprofit arts sector to tango-themed urban renewal projects. He shows how projects such as these are not peripheral to an otherwise real tango they are the absolu

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Book SynopsisExploring the links between class identity and vacationing, the text looks at the popularity of France's health resorts in the 19th century. It shows how spas were promoted as an ordered equivalent to the busy lives of the bourgeoisie, and this premier vacation made and was made by the bourgeoisie.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"For a book like this to come forth at this particular juncture, with its focus on community sport and the experiences of primarily queer and trans women, is not only necessary but imperative." William Bridel, University of Calgary

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Book SynopsisUnacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial features of this country’s sporting events. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates contemporary Canadian patriotism by exploring how understandings of Canadian identity are shaped at the intersection of sport, nationalism, and commercialism.Trade Review“Fresco engages with the timely and important issues of colonization, reconciliation, and Indigenous resistance through the lens of sport. Thoughtful, insightful, and benefitting greatly from the author's own considerable primary research, Red Mitten Nationalism makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the connections between the Olympic Games, nationalism, and commercialism.” Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University and author of Sport and Modernity

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Book SynopsisA former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, he composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes and the transcendent experience of the game.Trade ReviewThis timely and groundbreaking book is about basketball as lived religion in some of America's most dangerous neighborhoods. But more centrally it is about grief expressed and hope conjured as seen through the lens of a stellar young scholar who has been there and through the eyes of young black men who, though weighed down by the forces of death, somehow rise above the asphalt. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)In this season where black male bodies are under attack, Black Gods of the Asphalt offers a profound narrative of survival, self-determination, and the urban swag of Boston's inner-city basketball courts as sites where religion is 'lived' and spiritual transformation occurs on a regular basis. Woodbine brilliantly posits that the 'ritual space of the asphalt' is where memory, hope, and healing converge to fight the systemic oppressive forces beyond the rim. This book is a slam dunk! -- Emmett G. Price III, editor of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational DivideThe stories in Black Gods of the Asphalt are rich and powerful and are woven together skillfully and beautifully. Onaje X. 0. Woodbine switches between his roles as participant and observer, by turns narrating and analyzing with great dexterity. -- Rebecca Alpert, author of Religion and SportsThis narrative is more than academic prose; it is a deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends.... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Woodbine's got game, on the court and on the page, and here he dunks emphatically. From the time we meet Shorty, a street-basketball legend, through a brief history of the game and its link (religion playing a large role) to young African American culture, we learn of basketball, and the many lives it memorializes, as we have in few other books. * Booklist *In this painful, beautiful nonfiction debut, scholar Onaje X. O. Woodbine uses a seamless mix of memoir, ethnography, and poetry to chronicle Boston's street basketball players seeking physical and spiritual grace through hoops. * Boston Magazine *In Black Gods of the Asphalt, the worlds of religion and hoops come together.... Woodbine shares how the courts can be a place of healing, of ritual, of community, and even transcendence. -- Christie Storm * Arkansas Democrat Gazette *Black Gods of the Asphalt is likely to change your entire perspective of urban basketball. -- David Crumm * Read The Spirit *For the young men in Woodbine's book, street basketball disconnects players from daily life in a way that gives them joy.... But, at the same time, inner city life literally enshrouds their game, and this tragedy is what Black Gods brings to life in vividly realized accounts of young men and the street ball tournaments they play. -- David Lipset * Eephus *A powerful and deeply moving work, Black Gods of the Asphalt reveals a world of redemption and hope rarely glimpsed from the outside. -- Diana L. Hayes * National Catholic Reporter *A thoughtful, passionate, and personal exploration. * The Boston Globe (Best Books of 2016) *A uniquely engaging and rewarding read for sociologists. -- Douglas Hartmann * Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations"Enter the Chamber"AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Memory1. "Last Ones Left" in the Game: From Black Resistance to Urban Exile2. Boston's Memorial GamesPart II: Hope3. Jason, Hoops, and Grandma's Hands4. C.J., Hoops, and the Quest for a Second LifePart III: Healing5. Ancestor Work in Street Basketball6. The Dunk and the Signifying MonkeyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports.Trade ReviewCo-winner, North American Society for Sport History Book Award, Anthology, 2014. "This collection points to some of the ways to rewrite sport's meanings and shows how and why doing so matters, academically, emotionally, and as part of the politics of the everyday beyond the commodified, commercialized and financial worlds of late capitalist sport-as-culture-industry."--Sport in History "This fine anthology shows the confluence of sport, identity, and community in a variety of settings. Outstanding essays by skilled writers."--Ronald A. Smith, author of Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform"These accessible, illustrative essays—written by scholars of sport studies, American studies, and history—are stories about teams and times, voice and victories, pride and privilege. In sum, the book emphasizes the functional aspects of sports—the fact that through sports people feel connected to one another. Recommended."--Choice"The book offers unexpected insight into how sports communities are used to shore up a mythologized American past."--Journal of Sport HistoryTable of ContentsContributors: Amy Bass, Susan Cahn, Mark Dyreson, Michael Ezra, Elliott J. Gorn, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Catherine M. Lewis, Shelley Lucas, Daniel A. Nathan, Michael Oriard, Carlo Rotella, Jaime Schultz, Mike Tanier, David K. Wiggins, and David W. Zang.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A superb cultural history."--Publisher's Weekly"Jesse Berrett's Pigskin Nation is an insightful account of how professional football intersected with politics between 1966 and 1974, and how the sport "became both a metaphor for American achievement and an effective means of reaching voters."" --Journal of American History"The book is extensively researched throughout, and Berrett includes copious notes, which will prove helpful for sports historians and general readers alike. Recommended." --Choice"Accessible, well-researched, and insightful, Pigskin Nation is a compelling book." --Journal of Sport History"Pigskin Nation makes an important contribution and should find a welcome home in sport history courses and among general readers interested in how pro football became a commonplace part of political culture." --Sport History Review"Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics offers much to chroniclers of the relationship between popular culture and politics. . . . In its all-encompassing depiction of the decades-long relationship between American football and American politics that can, in turn, provide a more productive way to consider the political realities and ramifications of football in the twenty-first century." --Journal of American Culture"The current collision of football and politics boils out of a half-century of violence, skullduggery, idealism, and greed brilliantly exposed in this fascinating and fast-paced scrimmage of a book."--Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: An American Dreamland"With an acute eye for detail, especially notable in the brilliant analysis of NFL films, Jesse Berrett shows how pro football and Richard Nixon's America arose coterminously and in reinforcing ways. One of the best books I have read on the politics and culture of sports in the modern United States. This terrific study shows how football both reflected and transformed American politics and culture during the long 1960s."--Larry Glickman, author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America "This is a terrific book—smart, lively, and deeply researched, full of surprises to delight the casual fan and the seasoned historian alike. If you want to know how a not-quite-respectable sport of the 1950s within two decades became 'America's Game,' not just the country’s most popular sport but also the one most entangled in partisan politics and competing visions of American life, this book is for you."--Michael Oriard, author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport "For this devotee of Sam Huff's New York Giants and Dave Meggyesy's Syracuse Orangemen, Jesse Berrett's fascinating book is an absolute pleasure to read. Moving with the tempo of a two-minute drill, the narrative will inform both gridiron fans and political scholars alike. How many knew, for instance, that during the Vietnam War that the best way to avoid fighting the NLF was to play in the NFL? Masterfully researched, brimming with well-mined quotes, and leavened with astute analysis, the book makes the difficult job of good writing appear effortless. Anybody wanting to know how football got so big, and politics got so mean, needs to pick up Pigskin Nation."--Thomas M. Grace, author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOutstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 ". . . thoughtful, well-researched analysis. . . . This book makes an important contribution to communication scholarship." --Journal of Communication"An exciting project that promises to impact understandings of Native American mascots in powerful ways. Mascot Nation provides fresh perspectives on the use of American Indian imagery in sport. Rather than restate existing arguments in the ongoing controversy, Billings and Black weave together established understandings and new empirical research to clarify not simply what mascots mean but also how they matter in sport and society. Of particular note, they craft a well-rounded and fully grounded account by engaging with people and perspectives from all sides of the controversy. Mascot Nation will become essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the study and struggle over Native American mascots. It will soon come to be seen as an exemplar for the study of sport communications."--C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand"Valuable . . . Examine[s] all sides of the issue with an objective eye."--Booklist"Mascot Nation is a welcome addition to the literature on the Native American mascot controversy. Well researched and clearly written, this account offers a novel, interdisciplinary, multidimensional approach. Recommended." --Choice"Mascot Nation fills a gap by casting a wide net and offering conclusions backed by the diverse cast of disciplines that are engaged in mascot research." --H-Net Reviews"In Mascot Nation, Andrew Billings and Jason Black have taken on an enduring controversy in the study of sport and culture. Their savvy multi-method study illuminates how embedded representations of Native American mascots have built historical affinities that fans have for sports teams and highlights the important role that media has played in constructing and celebrating problematic understandings of Native Americans and their traditions. Through careful deconstruction of the central tendencies in case studies of media practices and the debates around them, this is a seminal study that will challenge sports fans to reconsider the harms in the legacies that have naturalized misunderstandings of Native American cultures."--Lawrence Wenner, editor-in-chief, Communication & Sport

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Book SynopsisCast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of Americaand became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image. Jesse Berrett explores pro football''s new place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL''s brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL''s gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity--all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL''s alchemy of presentation, television, and high-steppiTrade Review"A superb cultural history."--Publisher's Weekly"Jesse Berrett's Pigskin Nation is an insightful account of how professional football intersected with politics between 1966 and 1974, and how the sport "became both a metaphor for American achievement and an effective means of reaching voters."" --Journal of American History"The book is extensively researched throughout, and Berrett includes copious notes, which will prove helpful for sports historians and general readers alike. Recommended." --Choice"Accessible, well-researched, and insightful, Pigskin Nation is a compelling book." --Journal of Sport History"Pigskin Nation makes an important contribution and should find a welcome home in sport history courses and among general readers interested in how pro football became a commonplace part of political culture." --Sport History Review"Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics offers much to chroniclers of the relationship between popular culture and politics. . . . In its all-encompassing depiction of the decades-long relationship between American football and American politics that can, in turn, provide a more productive way to consider the political realities and ramifications of football in the twenty-first century." --Journal of American Culture"The current collision of football and politics boils out of a half-century of violence, skullduggery, idealism, and greed brilliantly exposed in this fascinating and fast-paced scrimmage of a book."--Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: An American Dreamland"With an acute eye for detail, especially notable in the brilliant analysis of NFL films, Jesse Berrett shows how pro football and Richard Nixon's America arose coterminously and in reinforcing ways. One of the best books I have read on the politics and culture of sports in the modern United States. This terrific study shows how football both reflected and transformed American politics and culture during the long 1960s."--Larry Glickman, author of Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America "This is a terrific book—smart, lively, and deeply researched, full of surprises to delight the casual fan and the seasoned historian alike. If you want to know how a not-quite-respectable sport of the 1950s within two decades became 'America's Game,' not just the country’s most popular sport but also the one most entangled in partisan politics and competing visions of American life, this book is for you."--Michael Oriard, author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport "For this devotee of Sam Huff's New York Giants and Dave Meggyesy's Syracuse Orangemen, Jesse Berrett's fascinating book is an absolute pleasure to read. Moving with the tempo of a two-minute drill, the narrative will inform both gridiron fans and political scholars alike. How many knew, for instance, that during the Vietnam War that the best way to avoid fighting the NLF was to play in the NFL? Masterfully researched, brimming with well-mined quotes, and leavened with astute analysis, the book makes the difficult job of good writing appear effortless. Anybody wanting to know how football got so big, and politics got so mean, needs to pick up Pigskin Nation."--Thomas M. Grace, author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOutstanding Book Award, Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 Best Book Award, American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2019 ". . . thoughtful, well-researched analysis. . . . This book makes an important contribution to communication scholarship." --Journal of Communication"An exciting project that promises to impact understandings of Native American mascots in powerful ways. Mascot Nation provides fresh perspectives on the use of American Indian imagery in sport. Rather than restate existing arguments in the ongoing controversy, Billings and Black weave together established understandings and new empirical research to clarify not simply what mascots mean but also how they matter in sport and society. Of particular note, they craft a well-rounded and fully grounded account by engaging with people and perspectives from all sides of the controversy. Mascot Nation will become essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the study and struggle over Native American mascots. It will soon come to be seen as an exemplar for the study of sport communications."--C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand"Valuable . . . Examine[s] all sides of the issue with an objective eye."--Booklist"Mascot Nation is a welcome addition to the literature on the Native American mascot controversy. Well researched and clearly written, this account offers a novel, interdisciplinary, multidimensional approach. Recommended." --Choice"Mascot Nation fills a gap by casting a wide net and offering conclusions backed by the diverse cast of disciplines that are engaged in mascot research." --H-Net Reviews"In Mascot Nation, Andrew Billings and Jason Black have taken on an enduring controversy in the study of sport and culture. Their savvy multi-method study illuminates how embedded representations of Native American mascots have built historical affinities that fans have for sports teams and highlights the important role that media has played in constructing and celebrating problematic understandings of Native Americans and their traditions. Through careful deconstruction of the central tendencies in case studies of media practices and the debates around them, this is a seminal study that will challenge sports fans to reconsider the harms in the legacies that have naturalized misunderstandings of Native American cultures."--Lawrence Wenner, editor-in-chief, Communication & Sport

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While athletes' own navigation of family life has received some attention, how does this arrangement affect their partners who are tasked with an array of visible and invisible labor to make their family work? This is the focus of Steven M. Ortiz's The Sport Marriage. . . . The Sport Marriage opens up many new avenues to interrogate the interweaving of gender, work, and family in the world of professional sports." --Symbolic Interaction”In this keenly observed, empathic, and insightful work, Steven Ortiz recounts the inner experience of wives married to both a man and his sports career. Ortiz observes the precise order in which wives sit on the bench in the stadium, how they respond to affair-seeking groupies, to more senior sports wives, news of a sudden cross-country trade, an intrusive mother-in-law, a lasting head-injury. He explores the complex art of managing a backstage role. This is the best book I know of on the sport marriage.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”In this insightful book, Steven Ortiz unveils the heretofore hidden realities of the lives of women who marry male pro athletes. Beneath the veneer of public glory and fortune the general public may assume makes for a perfect life, Ortiz reveals the stresses and strains of women’s emotional and managerial labor as 'marriage workers' in a high-pressure, career-dominated marriage. Through sensitive interviewing and deft observation, Ortiz shows both the oppressive costs of these women’s subordination within the sport marriage, and their creative, and even sometimes resistant, strategies to assert and meet their own and their children’s needs.”—Michael A. Messner, coeditor of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"On the whole, Catalonia's Human Towers is a marvelous ethnography, reliant on fine-grained insights gained from thorough fieldwork. Her prose is highly accessible, and her text is alive to contemporary concerns within anthropology, performance studies, nationalist studies, and allied disciplines."—Jeremy MacClancy, author of Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts"Mariann Vaczi takes us inside the complex embodied collaboration that generates Catalonia's human towers. Celebrated as allegories of national striving, raised literally to new heights by the incorporation of women and girls, transitioning from festival into sport, these ephemeral constructions also anchor support networks and mediate social inclusion. Tracing the practice through the European economic crisis, the Catalan independence referendum, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Vaczi elegantly captures the force of endlessly renewed collective effort against the eternal threat of collapse."—Dorothy Noyes, author of Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco, and Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life."At the intersection of effervescent regional separatism, cultural habits of competition and death-defying risk, multiple activisms, gender tensions, and intergenerational solidarity lies an unusual form of bodily confluence: the Catalan human tower. Mariann Vaczi weaves her vivid ethnographic account, as structured and as intricate as the towers of living bodies she describes, to show us how social actors physically debate the dilemmas of identity in daring, defiant, and demonstrative displays. Through her intensely observed account of the enduring tug-of-war between the sensual and the sensible, Vaczi brings immersive fieldwork and political history into a lively and engaging synergy."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"This lovely book is as intriguing and illuminating as the incredible ten story human towers it describes. Vaczi takes us on a journey into the world of the castells and their Catalan makers in a brilliant exploration of solidarity and complexity at possibility's tottering edge."—Orin Starn, author of The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal."Catalonia's Human Towers demonstrates how close attention to a visually spectacular sporting event can enhance our understanding of local politics, ethnic relations, and social organization and identity. Mariann Vaczi has produced a magnificent, beautifully written and illustrated contribution to the ethnography of contemporary Iberia and the Mediterranean world. It is a literary and social scientific treasure"—Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sisyphean AscentVisual Glossary1. From "People of Farts and Burps" to Crowning the Olympic Games2. The Politics, Erotics, and Social Class of Touch and the Body3. Risking the Fall4. Rivalry, Antagonism, and Identity Among the Boys of Valls5. Bones Have No Gender6. The Grace in Every Child7. At the Height of DeathEpilogue: Rebuilding Towers in Messianic Times and the Global PandemicBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incisive and troubling." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports." * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scrappy White Leader 2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court 3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership? 4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence 5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes 6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133 7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity 8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race 9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers 10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incisive and troubling." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports." * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scrappy White Leader 2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court 3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership? 4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence 5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes 6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133 7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity 8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race 9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers 10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

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Book SynopsisForces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and placeTrade Review"The author utilizes a bevy of archival and public documents. Photographs, maps, charts, and a substantial bibliography support the book. Recommended." * Choice *"William Philpott’s Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country is the best book yet published on an array of critical topics in Colorado history. . . . What’s more, Vacationland is far and away the most illuminating book yet written on postwar Colorado. Philpott’s research is exhaustive, his prose is elegant but crystal-clear, and his interpretations are almost uniformly persuasive. Vacationland seems bound to earn vociferous praise from scholars. Yet this is also a book that merits widespread attention from general readers. If I were asked to recommend just one work to citizens or visitors seeking to orient themselves to the origins of the contemporary Colorado landscape, this would be it." -- Thomas Andrews * Center for Colorado and the West *"Although a scholarly work of interest to environmental scientists and historians. . . the extraordinarily multidisciplinary nature of the content— illustrating economic, marketing, political, and sociological aspects of our American history—gives it broad appeal. The entertaining narrative style makes the content accessible to an audience beyond experts, suitable for students, and general readers." -- Kathleen Butler * Electronic Green Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: At Home and at Play in the High Country by William Cronon Introduction: Seeing Like a Tourist 1. Selling the Scene 2. The Roads Nature Made? 3. Our Big Backyard 4. Blueprints for Action 5. The John Denver Tenor Conclusion: How Tourism Took Place Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism.Trade Review"The author utilizes a bevy of archival and public documents. Photographs, maps, charts, and a substantial bibliography support the book. Recommended." * Choice *"William Philpott’s Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country is the best book yet published on an array of critical topics in Colorado history. . . . What’s more, Vacationland is far and away the most illuminating book yet written on postwar Colorado. Philpott’s research is exhaustive, his prose is elegant but crystal-clear, and his interpretations are almost uniformly persuasive. Vacationland seems bound to earn vociferous praise from scholars. Yet this is also a book that merits widespread attention from general readers. If I were asked to recommend just one work to citizens or visitors seeking to orient themselves to the origins of the contemporary Colorado landscape, this would be it." -- Thomas Andrews * Center for Colorado and the West *"Although a scholarly work of interest to environmental scientists and historians. . . the extraordinarily multidisciplinary nature of the content— illustrating economic, marketing, political, and sociological aspects of our American history—gives it broad appeal. The entertaining narrative style makes the content accessible to an audience beyond experts, suitable for students, and general readers." -- Kathleen Butler * Electronic Green Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword: At Home and at Play in the High Country by William Cronon Introduction: Seeing Like a Tourist 1. Selling the Scene 2. The Roads Nature Made? 3. Our Big Backyard 4. Blueprints for Action 5. The John Denver Tenor Conclusion: How Tourism Took Place Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPart ethnography, part memoir, this book traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. It also traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America.Trade Review"Required reading for coffee's true believers and industry insiders." -- Oliver Strand T: The New York Times Style Magazine "You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes." Serious Eats "A fascinating 130-year illumination of Japan's deeply rooted sipping culture." LA Weekly "This excellent book combines academic rigour with lively descriptions and compelling prose." Times Higher Education "Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses... Highly recommended." -- R. R. Wilk, Indiana University Choice "Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafes in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and ... you'll probably enjoy this too." Jimseven "This book will certainly give you ... a lot of new knowledge and maybe a whole new perspective on Japanese culture." Yum "Coffee Life in Japan provides a novel and significant study on contemporary Japanese life." -- Willa Zhen, Culinary Institute of America Journal Of American-East Asian Relations "Wake up to the world of Coffee Life in Japan, a book brimming with surprising tidbits, astute observations, and stories from the heart... If you're a [coffee maniac], clearly Coffee Life in Japan is the must-have book for you." -- Kate Heyhoe Caffeine and YouTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface 1. Coffee in Public: Cafe's in Urban Japan 2. Japan's Cafe's: Coffee and the Counterintuitive 3. Modernity and the Passion Factory 4. Masters of Their Universes: Performing Perfection 5. Japan's Liquid Power 6. Making Coffee Japanese: Taste in the Contemporary Cafe' 7. Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities 8. Knowing Your Place Appendix: Visits to Cafe's, an Unreliable Guide Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an examination of the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. This title discusses the origins of surfing in Hawai'i, its central role in Hawaiian society, and the mele (chants) and hula (dance or visual poetry) about surfing.Trade Review"[Cooley] tells a story that is just good entertainment. It will appeal to general audiences as much as it will to surfers and fans of surf music and surf culture." -- Brett Leigh Dicks Santa Barbara News Press "A serious book about a normally laid-back subject." -- Phyllis Fong Men's Journal "Invites the reader to hop on the board and catch the (sound) wave." -- Bill Baars Library Journal "Cooley, an ethnomusicologist and a surfer, finds commonalities in the ephemeral, creative qualities of the two activities." -- Star-Advertiser Staff Honolulu StarTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Online Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Trouble in Paradise: The History and Reinvention of Surfing 2. "Surf Music" and the California Surfing Boom: New Surfing Gets a New Sound 3. Music in Surf Movies 4. Two Festivals and Three Genres of Music 5. The Pro Surfer Sings 6. The Soul Surfer Sings 7. Playing Together and Solitary Play: Why Surfers Need Music Notes Bibliography Discography Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisTokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture. Looking at how the park is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Raz shows that rather than being an agent of Americanization, it is a simulated America showcased by and for the Japanese.Trade ReviewRaz’s study of Tokyo Disneyland (TDL) is a well-grounded case of domestication. The central question of the study is to examine how Walt Disney World, as a globalizing and imperialistic operation, has been reworked into the localized cultural networks of Japan… This book is a strong case of glocalization, collapsing the global and local. -- Eric K. W. Ma * Journal of Communication *Raz’s socio-anthropological study describes how a significant piece of American business, ideology, and fantasy has been remade in Japan. Raz challenges the popular idea of Tokyo Disneyland as being a cultural imperialism. Rather, he found that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese while marketing itself as American… [A] fine ethnography. -- M. Y. Rynn * Choice *

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Book Synopsis Written by leading figures in the social sciences, the book synthesizes theory and research in social science and sport and promotes development of and through sport. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making the Case for the Social Sciences of Sport, Exercise, and Health The Sport Ethic and the Natural Sciences Proposing a Human Development Model Part I. Identity: Definitions, Development, and the IndividualChapter 1. History of Sport Wray Vamplew, PhD Relationships With Other Disciplines Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Chapter 2. Philosophy of Sport Sigmund Loland, PhD, and Michael McNamee, PhD Historical Overview of the Discipline Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Debates Future Directions Summary Chapter 3. Psychology of Sport David Lavallee, PhD, John Kremer, PhD, and Aidan Moran, PhD Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Part II. Community: Place, Space, Image, and the Social Chapter 4. Anthropology of Sport Alan Klein, PhD Foundations in Sociocultural Anthropology Post-1970: The Athletic El Dorado and the Anthropologists Who Seek Him Looking Outward Summary Chapter 5. Sociology of Sport Joseph Maguire, PhD Historical Development and Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives A Sociological Account of Sport: Critical Findings Future Directions and Key Debates Summary Chapter 6. Geography of Sport Christopher Gaffney, PhD Historical Trajectory of the Geography of Sport Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Debates and Critical Findings Future Directions Summary Chapter 7. Media Studies and Sport David Rowe, PhD Historical Connections and Questions in Media Studies Understanding Media: Core Concepts Media Powers and Routines: Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings and Key Debates in Sport and Media Conclusion: Sport and Media Studies in Transition Part III. Capital: Wealth, Power, and ResourcesChapter 8. Economics and Sport Stefan Szymanski, PhD Professional League Model: Theory and Policy Productivity Studies Economic Impact: Measurement, Theory, and Policy Sport, Physical Activity, and Well-Being Illustrations of Economic Issues Conclusions Chapter 9. Political Science and Sport Jonathan Grix, PhD Core Concepts in Political Science Study of Sport and Politics Research Paradigms and Theoretical Perspectives in Political Science Applying Political Science and Sport: The Governance of Sport and the Politics of Mega-Events Summary Chapter 10. International Relations and Sport Roger Levermore, PhD, and Aaron Beacom, PhD Core Concepts and Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings and Key Debates Summary Part IV. Governance: Regulation, Organization, and ImplementationChapter 11. Sport and the Law Deborah Healey, LLB, LLM (Hons) The Global Organization and Regulation of Sport Overview: The Place of Law in Sport Are the Courts Always Interested in Sport? Governance Aspects of Industry Self-Regulation in Sport Summary Chapter 12. Sport and Social Policy Ramón Spaaij, PhD Discipline of Social Policy: A Historical Overview Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Concepts Key Debates Summary Chapter 13. Sport and Management Studies Lucie Thibault, PhD Sport as a Unique Industry Historical Overview Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Chapter 14. Sport and Education Dawn Penney, PhD Core Concepts Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary

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