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Popular cultures : rock music, sport, and the politics of pleasure / David Rowe.

By:

Rowe, David, 1954- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Media, culture, and society seriesPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1995Description: 184 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

080397700X
9780803977006
0803977018
9780803977013

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

790.1

LOC classification:

ML3534 .R714 1995
HM101 .R66 1995

Contents:

Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Analysing the Popular -- 2. Rock Industry: Song and Business Cycles -- 3. Rock Ideology and Sound Politics -- 4. Rock Culture: Getting Away with It -- 5. The Sports Industry: Playing for Pay -- 6. Ideologies in Competition -- 7. Physical Culture and Armchair Exercise -- References -- Index.

Summary: Focusing on two major forms of popular culture - rock music and sport - this book outlines the key issues involved in the understanding of popular culture in all its different aspects. Offering a range of critical insights into the dynamics of popular cultures, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in popular culture, sports studies, cultural studies, leisure studies, sociology, communications and related fields.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	790.1 ROW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A122194B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.

Focusing on two major forms of popular culture - rock music and sport - this book outlines the key issues involved in the understanding of popular culture in all its different aspects. Offering a range of critical insights into the dynamics of popular cultures, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers in popular culture, sports studies, cultural studies, leisure studies, sociology, communications and related fields.

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