Football and Popular Culture

Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life. More than a sport, it frequently manifests in broader popular culture. This book examines the significance of football for, and in, popular culture across a wide range of forms, including music, film and social media.

Auteur

Stephen R. Millar is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Cardiff University, UK.

Martin J. Power is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Paul Widdop is Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Daniel Parnell is Senior Lecturer in Sport Business at the University of Liverpool, UK. James Carr is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

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PART I

Sound and violence in football culture 9

1 Kicking metaphors of the body around in the mediation of self and other: conceptual metaphor in the multimodal construction of football songs and chants 11

SIMON MCKERRELL 2 'You call this democracy?': FC Saint Pauli supporters, football chants, and the police 25

MAX JACK 3 Sound, violence and gender performances in Brazilian football 39

PEDRO SILVA MARRA 4 Capital culture, political performance: listening to football in Ottawa 2014-2015 51

JORDAN ZALIS PART II

Football and screen 69

5 Kicking, not screaming: an examination of football (soccer) and female footballers in Australian screen-based narratives 71

FREYA WRIGHT-BROUGH AND LEE MCGOWAN

vi Contents 6 European cinema and the football film: 'Play for the people who've accepted you' 87

SEÁN CROSSON 7 Football, fantasy, film: cinema and the cultural politics of fans' imaginative investments in football stars 108

MARCUS FREE PART III

Football and/as cultural identity 123

8 Yugoslav football and British popular culture 1975-1991: from Petar Borota to 'Sexton's Lions' 125

DEJAN ZEC AND MILOs PAUNOVIC 9 Unwrapped: football fans and The Anfield Wrap 140

CIARÁN RYAN 10 The resuscitation of a babe: interrogating the fan-led virtual

dedicatory practices of Duncan Edwards 154

GAYLE ROGERS 11 'What's he know about the Premier League?': football media and the perpetuated archetypes of 'Englishness' 170

JONATHAN CABLE