TY - BOOK AU - Rowe,David TI - Popular cultures: rock music, sport, and the politics of pleasure T2 - Media, culture, and society series SN - 080397700X AV - ML3534 .R714 1995 U1 - 790.1 PY - 1995/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - Rock music KW - Social aspects KW - Sports KW - Popular culture KW - Leisure N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -