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Series Editors:
Justin O'Connor, Steve Redhead & Derek Wynne
The Manchester Institute for Popular Culture was set up in order to promote theoretical and empirical research in the area of contemporary popular culture, both within the academy and in conjunction with local, national and international agencies. The Institute is a postgraduate research centre engaged in comparative research projects around aspects of consumption and regulation of popular culture in the city. The Institute also runs a number of postgraduate research programmes, with a particular emphasis on ethnographic work. The series intends to reflect all aspects of the Institute's activities including its relationship with interested academics throughout the world. Current theoretical debates within the field of popular culture will be explored within an empirical context. Much of the research is undertaken by researchers actively involved in their chosen fields of study, allowing an awareness of the issues and an attentiveness to actual developments often lacking in standard academic writings on the subject. The series will also reflect the working methods of the Institute, emphasizing a collective research effort and regular presentation of work-in-progress to the Institute's research seminars. The series hopes, therefore, both to push forward debates around the regulation and consumption of popular culture, urban regeneration and postmodern social theory whilst introducing an ethnographic and contextual basis for such debates.
Edited by Jeffrey Walsh, Principal Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University
Popular Cultural Studies: 7
This interdisciplinary collection of essays breaks new ground in studying the complex relationships between the historical Gulf war of 199091, and those myths, narratives and extended images commonly drawn upon to explain it. Such a distinctive mode of enquiry reveals the ideological symmetry political debate and popular culture, or between foreign policy and artistic production. A linking theme running through the volume is the shadow of Vietnam, how the Gulf war was perhaps the culminating event in what has come to be known as "the Vietnam syndrome".
As well as focusing upon the central role of mass media the contributors address issues and events that are not usually treated in the same political and historical context, for example, popular music, comic books, war memorials, anti-war expression, literature, and the effects of war upon language.
232 pages Paperback 1 85742 286 4 £12.95
Hardback 1 85742 292 9 £35.00
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Edited by Stephen Whittle, Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University
Popular Cultural Studies: 6
Within cities, gay life has always been marginalised. Despite the fact that their significant places are often centrally placed geographically within cities, gay communities are not centrally placed in the political, social and cultural lives of cities. These international accounts draw on first hand ethnographic research and reflect the responses of gay men in particular to the changes that have taken place during the last 25 years in urban settings. They look at the physical and spatial development of gay places, at the same time as viewing the social placing of the communities that use those places.
The cross-disciplinary studies within this book look at the tensions that arise between gay communities and their cities, the political and economic implications to city planners of the "pink pound" and the legal and social implications for gay men as they attempt to reconcile being both the outsiders and insiders of city life.
184 pages Paperback 1 85742 202 3 £12.95
Hardback 1 85742 201 5 £29.95
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Edited by Richard Giulianotti, currently employed by Aberdeen University's Sociology Department as ESRC Research Assistant on a research project studying Scottish football fan behaviour and related youth sub-cultures, and John Williams, Senior Researcher at the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research at Leicester University
Popular Cultural Studies: 5
What is the historical appeal of football?
How diverse are its players, supporters and institutions
throughout the world?
What are its various traditions, and how
are these affected by pressures to 'modernize'?
In what ways does the game help to reinforce or overcome social
differences and prejudices?
How can we understand football's
subcultures, especially football hooligan ones?
The 1994 World Cup Finals in the United States have again demonstrated the conflicts which exist around football over its international future. The multi-media age beckons new audiences for top-level matches, but worries remain that the historical and cultural appeal of football itself may be the real loser. The 'global game' has a breadth of skills, playing techniques, supporting styles and ruling bodies. These are all subject to local and national traditions of team play and fan display. Modern commercial influences and international cultural links through players and fan styles, are accommodated within the game to an increasing extent. Yet, football's ability to differentiate remains: at local, regional, national and even continental levels. In some cases the game's traditions ensure that these differences are becoming as oppositional today as is modern football hooliganism. But, the overall picture is one of a game without frontiers - rich in historical and cultural detail, pluralistic in its traditions and identities.
This volume brings together essays by leading academics and researchers writing on world football. Their studies draw on inter-disciplinary researches in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Argentina and Australia.
356 pages Paperback 1 85742 220 1 £14.95
Hardback 1 85742 219 8 £35.00
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Edited by John Sugden, Senior Lecturer in the Division of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, and Alan Tomlinson , Professor of Leisure Studies in the Chelsea School, University of Brighton, England
Popular Cultural Studies: 4
Hosts and Champions gives the background to soccer's worldwide popularity and looks at where the World Cup has been played and how it has been won.
It includes case-study chapters on: Argentina - Brazil - England - Germany - Ireland - Italy - Japan - Norway - Russia - Sweden - USA; and general essays on the growth of the world game, the cultural meanings of soccer and the ever-increasing role of the media in staging the sports spectacle.
The book captures the international impact of soccer and also probes the cultural distinctiveness of the game in the stories of its growth in different countries and nations. It will help the fan and the potential fan, as well as the serious scholar of sport, understand how in USA '94 soccer's World Cup offered the American public a Real World Series, featuring the globe's most popular competitive team sport.
336 pages Paperback 1 85742 228 7 £14.95
Hardback 1 85742 227 9 £35.00
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David Moore, Visiting Research Fellow in the Addiction Studies Unit, School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Popular Cultural Studies: 3
"This is a much needed, adventurous work..." Professor David Parkin, University of London
The Lads in Action, based on long-term participant observation with Australian skinheads, portrays the social processes which underlie and constitute the skinhead subculture.
The book begins with a critique of existing studies of youth. Moore then analyses the meaning of skinhead expressive activity for the skinheads themselves, heavily influenced by anthropology of social process. After dispensing with the static concept of 'gang' in favour of a more processural framework, he deals in turn with the meaning of visual and performative style for skinheads, interaction between skinheads and the members of other youth subcultures, the significance of drinking, and the public and private representations skinheads make about the young women with whom they form relationships. He also outlines the part played by 'memories', the stories of past exploits which skinheads tell to one another, in the creation of the skinhead's categorical and personal identity.
The young men and women who are the subject of this book are not to be encountered elsewhere in the vast literature on youth. By paying careful attention to their words and deeds, Moore presents the everyday world of an urban youth subculture as it is created and lived by its members.
192 pages Paperback 1 85742 204 X £12.95
Hardback 1 85742 203 1 £29.50
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Edited by Steve Redhead
Popular Cultural Studies: 2
"...intriguing... Christian Bromberger's dissection of Napoli is riveting." The Independent
The culture of the soccer terrace is changing. Commentators are now as likely to refer to the carnival or 'party' atmosphere at football matches as violence and disorder. This does not mean, however, that 'football hooliganism' has disappeared. It is clearly on the rise in countries such as Italy and Holland, and especially in Germany where it has ugly associations with the neo-nazi right; it may be marginalised in countries like Scotland, and more lately England, but public disorder around professional football has deep historical roots in such heavily masculinised national cultures.
Nevertheless, the football crowd and moreover football fandom in general is undergoing significant change which reflect wider shifts in gender, popular culture, modernity and postmodernity. On the one hand there is a greater degree of active participation, and even democratisation, amongst fans. This process is evident in the increase of numbers of women in football, the rise of independent supporters' organisations, fan magazines (fanzines), the increasing role for football in other art forms (music, theatre, video, film, television) and the mixing of football as low or pop culture with 'high' arts such as opera and classical music. A contradictory process is also detectable, however; the redefinition of football for a passive, 'respectable' audience sitting in either executive boxes, all-seater stadia or in armchairs at home watching the game on TV.
Steve Redhead and his colleagues portray this cultural change on the European soccer terrace, drawing on specific new studies of the fans of the best known European clubs such as Juventus, Napoli, Leeds United, Marseilles and Manchester United. Some of this research was submitted, on request, to the Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons and has attracted wide media interest.
224 pages Paperback 1 85628 464 6 £12.95
Hardback 1 85628 462 X £29.95
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Edited by Steve Redhead, Director, Manchester Institute for Popular Culture
Popular Cultural Studies: 1
"...recommended as student reading." Youth and Policy
"...stimulating and provocative opening contribution to the Popular Cultural Studies series. Courses on youth culture will look a litte incomplete if they do not now include them as set reading ...central texts for any up-to-date specialist course." Leisure Studies Association Newsletter
A unique account of youth culture at the end of the millennium, concentrating on the much-hyped 'rave' scene and its connections to recreational drug use - for instance Ecstasy - contemporary pop and dance music, youth tourism, football hooliganism and the 'enterprise culture'.
The book attempts to provide answers to such questions as: What is 'rave culture'? What had 'Madchester' got to do with it? Has the rave (formerly acid house) scene merely parodied an earlier moment in pop history (60s psychedelia, 70s punk or Northern Soul)? Is illegal 'party drug' use a passing fad or here to stay? What political and legal implications are there of this new'hedonism in hard times'? Has 90s youth culture embraced or rejected the values of the market, individualism and enterprise?
208 pages Paperback 1 85628 465 4 £12.95
Hardback 1 85628 463 8 £29.50
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The Football Imagination
Richard Haynes, currently funded by the ESRC to research the future of the televised football industry at the John Logie Baird Centre at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, in conjunction with the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling
Popular Cultural Studies: 8
The Football Imagination is the first in-depth study of football fanzine (fan magazine) culture, contributing to the extensive body of knowledge on the football industry which has developed over the past twenty-five years in the UK and Europe. Football fanzines emerged in the mid-80s and mushroomed in the early-90s in an unprecedented explosion of literature written by supporters for supporters. After critically reviewing the existing discourses on football, predominantly a sociology of 'football hooliganism', it is agreed that a broader approach to the study of the game is necessary. This involves an ethnography of supporters and fanzine writers, and a textual study of fanzines which draws upon a unique archive of fan literature within Manchester Institute for Popular Culture. The author addresses recent debates within popular cultural studies through the study of football fanzine culture. From documenting the genealogy of football fanzines, by studying discourses on football writing, popular music, and youth culture, the author then traces the ontology of the 'alternative football fan network' of the late-80s and early-90s. The author concludes that football fanzines represent a 'culture of defence' in a highly commercialised, media-saturated sport.
June 1995 192 pages Paperback 1 85742 213 9
£12.95 Hardback 1 85742 212 0 £29.95
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This is Our House
Hillegonda C. Rietveld, Manchester Institute of Popular Culture
House music has shaped the sound of pop music of the late 1980s and early 1990s. From underground dance events to Top of the Pops, traces of this aesthetic can be found everywhere, sometimes only as a formalistic style but also as an attitude. This book attempts to trace a history of this aesthetic and also to map some of the power structures that have been and still are at play in the production of House music. Places like Chicago, New York, London, Manchester, Amsterdam and Rotterdam are 'visited' and contemporary dance culture, small enterprises such as record labels and the roles of musical technologies are discussed.
August 1995 c 135 pages Paperback 1 85742 243 0 c
£12.95 Hardback 1 85742 242 2 c £30.00
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The Game's Up
Alan Tomlinson, Professor of Leisure Studies in the Chelsea School, University of Brighton
This collection represents developing work on leisure/sport from a cultural studies/critical sociology perspective, combining revealing case-study analysis with discussion of key conceptual/theoretical themes.
August 1995 c 200 pages Hardback 1 85742 248 1 c
£30.00 Paperback 1 85742 249 X c £12.95
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The Social Faces of Humour
George Paton and Chris Powell
This volume confirms the growing interest worldwide by an increasing number of researchers and cultural critics of the importance of humour in its myriad forms in society and its centrality in a wide variety of social science and humanities disciplines.
September 1995 c 200 pages Paperback 1 85742 270 8
c £14.95 Hardback 1 85742 269 5 c £32.00
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Football with Attitude
Steve Redhead
Photographs by Richard Davis
"A Desmond Morris for the 90s!" City Life
"Science meets art in a veritable end-to-end read! Anecdote and analysis fight it out in an absorbing, high scoring draw! in the words of the song by I, Ludicrous, 'quite extraordinary'. One to slip through the turnstiles for." New Statesman and Society
This book consists of a unique blend of visual and written documents about the crossover between popular music, football and youth culture at the end of the twentieth century. Adorned with a stunning 'pop art' cover which does for soccer what the Sergeant Pepper LP did for popular culture in 1967, Football with Attitude focuses on the evolving relationship between young supporter styles and pop music subcultures over the last thirty years. The book's own idiosyncratic style, beautifully illustrated by Richard Davis' black and white pics and lots of other memorabilia from the Manchester Metropolitan University Insititute for Popular Culture pop archive, mixes the stream of consciousness writing of the Beats, pop novels and post-punk fanzines with (post)modern popular cultural theories from deep inside the academy. Accessible and funny, the book also includes an all-time list of football fanzines, a further reading guide and a playlist of football's tortured relationship to pop on vinyl, tape, CD and flexi, covering the worst (England's 'Back Home') and the best (mixologist Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound Barmy Army 'Sharp As A Needle') - from subculture to dubculture!
Paperback 1 873205 04 X £12.95
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